Let's Agree To Stop Falling For Mr Jerk

Dating a great guy isn’t a luxury. Here’s why...

- Hannah Kaplan

Listen up, ladies! It might sound obvious, but you should date someone who makes you feel good about yourself. Yet all too often, women ignore off-colour remarks or actions from a man because he’s good-looking, charming, funny, or great in bed. Well, he can be all those things...and still be a jerk. Does he listen to you? Respect your feelings? Or does he flirt with you on Friday and ignore you on Saturday?

“We’re trained to be attracted to meanness,” says Whitney Wolfe Herd, who started the dating app Bumble to try to change this. “Watch any Disney show—the little boy is mean to the little girl because he has a crazy crush on her. Then he goes home and writes her love letters at night.”