Ladies, we need to talk.

Ladies, we need to talk.

We’re leaning in. We’re climbing corporate ladders. We’re demanding equal pay and respect from catcallers.

We’re asking to be judged by the quality of our character, not by the length of our skirt or the number of guys we’ve slept with.

We’re progressing in wonderful ways, ways our foremothers would be so deeply proud of, ways our foremothers wouldn’t have even known needed changing.

But we still won’t ask our crushes out on dates.

Since when are we the type of women who sit and wait for what we want to come to us? Since when are we the type of women who linger passively on the sidelines and watch as life happens without us?

Since when are we the type of women to let men do things for us?


Too many women are hesitant to ask guys on dates, to give guys an inkling of their interest in them. And it’s upsetting and limiting to both us and to the dudes who want to date us.

We’re afraid of coming off as too assertive, too dominant or (the worst crime a woman can commit) not “mysterious” or “chase-able” enough.

But if women start asking guys out on dates, it’ll become a more normal way of doing things, and all of these fears will become eradicated.

In other words, if we start asking men out, it’ll pave the way for future generations of women to do so, too – and, even more so, to feel good about it.

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