Answer the question asked

A few of you have asked for more positive advice on increasing your socio-sexual rank rather than negative advice on how to avoid lowering it. So, here is some advice worth keeping in mind: answer the question asked.

Rank the following ways to respond to the question "do you know how I can do X?" Include Gyne.

1. Why do you want to know?
2. Why are you asking me?
3. Yes.
4. I think you really want to do Y. (Explains how to do Y.)
5. Yes, certainly. (Cheerfully explains how to do X.)
6. Yeah, of course. (Curtly explains how to do X.)
7. I was a baaaad, bad kitty this weekend!

Answers below the jump.

1. Gyne. Women have no interest in solutions, they are interested in people. They aren't interested in helping you get it done, they're more interested in understanding why you want to get it done.
2. Omega. He's worried that the attention might be a trick.
3. Alpha/Sigma. Who knows why the guy wants to know if you know? Who cares?
4. Gamma. Overthinks the whole thing and imagines it's all about what he would do in that situation, and answers a different question thereby.
5. Beta. They tend to be helpful and they don't mind who knows it.
6. Delta. Most men don't want to be bothered, but if a solution is needed, a solution will be provided.
7. Lambda. There is no situation in which they do not want to discuss the previous weekend.

The overthinkers will, of course, worry about what will happen if the person then goes on to ask "how do I do X?" The advice remains the same. Answer the question asked. It's not a man's job to go nosing in other people's business and anticipate what their future concerns might be.

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