What a Maxim Editor Has Learned About Women

"Women hate Maxim" was not included.

This list of things an editor of Maxim has learned about women includes the obvious ones such as wanting a clear apology and not an explanation and also that women dress up “for their girlfriends” and not men. However, this one was a big surprise:

“6. Women are vulnerable to the curveball. Compliment a hot woman on being hot and a man will run smack into her defenses, no matter how creative he is (and we can get very creative; this is Prime Directive stuff). But compliment a smart woman on being hot, or a funny woman on being smart, and unless he is a total dorkasaurus about it the man will double his odds at least, as his target correctly recognizes him as unusually perceptive, sensitive, brilliant, etc…”

Luckily for me, I don’t fall for compliments too easily. The last time I was at a club and a guy informed me that my glasses turned him on despite the tape on the side thanks to my latest mosh pit debacle, I limped away immediately.