Seeing as it’s Boxing Day here- though it is still Christmas back in the good ol’ US of A- I figure that this might not be a bad time to dish out some old-fashioned dating advice to ladies of my age and younger who are stuck wondering where all the good men went.

My dear ladies, here is a simple hint: it’s not us, it’s you.

You want a better class of man? Then make yourself a better class of woman.

And what better way to do that than by reaching into the past for some very sensible, yet decidedly non-PC, dating advice from the 1930s?

The funny thing is that this is the exact same sort of advice that my mother used to give my sister back when she was in her mid-to-late teens. And this advice is still just as relevant today as it was eighty years ago.

It all comes down to acting like a lady– which shouldn’t be all that revolutionary or difficult a concept to grasp, but apparently in the modern day and age, it is like rocket science to a lot of young women.

“Don’t be late.” “Don’t be overly chatty.” “Act demure and polite.” “Make him feel happy to be with you.” “Look feminine and act sweet.” And, most importantly, “DON’T BE DRUNK.“

This last is particularly important around the festive season. There are few things that are more disgusting or repulsive to men than seeing drunken slags stumble out of bars and clubs and vomiting on sidewalks- yet, in most large American and British cities, this is a common sight around this time of year.

No man in his right mind would ever want to be seen in public with such women. Getting blind-drunk and falling over in public with one’s tits flopping out of one’s dress is not a sign of good sense, sophistication, or femininity. It is instead a sign of total lack of self-control.

And that is precisely the point of such old-school advice. It simply tells women to act like women, and there is nothing particularly patronising or wrong about that at all.

As our culture devolves and Western civilisation collapses in on itself, we often find that the age-old wisdom of our forebears is in fact valid, useful, and more relevant than ever- for, after all, it was that very wisdom that made the glories of our civilisation possible in the first place.

We in the Manosphere have been saying for years that if men want a better class of women, then we have to put in the hard work and effort required to change from what we are into what we want to be. The same is true for women: if they want a better class of man, they must be better at being women.

And that advice, no matter how modern and barbaric the times, really never gets old.