Advice to Men in Search of Ladies

Prompt: Give advice to the opposite gender

• If a girl treats her friends poorly, don't expect to have better treatment because you are a boy. Eventually, you will be in the same stressed and demeaned boat. 
• Asking a girl out takes incredible bravery. If the girl rejects you, it could be a test of strength: how do you react to rejection? Are you going to withstand the roller coaster of a relationship? Or, she may not be that into you. (And, impossibly, there's a good chance that she doesn't even know which reason it is.)
• Don't let some rejection stop you forever.
• Don't always take other people's advice.
• Sometimes you are going to need other people's advice.
• George MacDonald said that men should marry women whose faces are not stunningly beautiful. Age and wisdom will then add beauty, whereas stunning faces fade with age. (I know he said this in earnest, yet part of me would be irate if I were his wife reading that.)
• It is possible to pay for the meal, and open the door, and still not be a gentleman.