{"id":10806,"date":"2015-01-08T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/?p=10806"},"modified":"2015-01-08T14:49:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:49:26","slug":"throwing-spaghetti-at-the-modern-dating-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/unequallyyoked\/2015\/01\/throwing-spaghetti-at-the-modern-dating-wall.html","title":{"rendered":"Throwing Spaghetti at the Modern Dating Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"Lawrence<\/a>
Maybe if we just started *all* wearing diaphanous gowns, the problems would resolve themselves<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

I\u2019ve been seeing a fair amount in my feeds (both RSS and social media) about the Perils Of Flirting, and how to navigate them of late.<\/p>\n

Everything from a married friend mentioning that she gives positive feedback to the people who flirt with her\u00a0well<\/em> without noticing her ring, because she wants to encourage positive public flirting to a\u00a0lot<\/em> of internet discussion of the professor who shared how his anxiety about having\u00a0any<\/em> appropriate way to approach women drove him to (a) consider suicide and (b) ask his doctor about chemical castration, to purge the sexuality he imagined was too dangerous to grapple with.<\/p>\n

Part of my takeaway from all this has been:<\/p>\n