He's Just Not That Into You...

You know what gets my goat? Both the utter rightness and total lack of nuance shown by "He's Just Not That Into You."

It is true. If some guy/girl is giving you the run around, making crazy excuses, pretending to sleep at work, asking to go on a break, not calling you, wants to have a threesome with your best friend, refuses to meet your parents/friends, says he believes in ghosts, doesn't try to have sex with you by Date 3....he probably doesn't like you that much, or maybe it isn't worth it. Cut your losses and run. So right! Thanks, show!

AND yet, the six word phrase that was made so famous in some episode of the "Sex in/and the City" is so completely lacking in nuance, shades of gray, an understanding of the complicated nature of human life--sometimes things are complicated and difficult. Sometimes it is okay to take a break, or maybe the person is scared of families because one time he or she dated a person whose family was super nuts or mean.

All I am trying to say, is that no creepy dating mantra deserves as much press as this nonsense has gotten, and nothing is that easy. Nothing.

And now it is a major motion picture starring everyone on earth, including Ben Affleck and Jennifer Aniston, who play the "old" people.