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RUN GIRL RUN! Don’t date losers in campus

Relationships form an integral part of college life. For the first time, you have the opportunity to be away from the tutelage of your parents and the freedom to choose whom to date. Many college relationships are wasteful and potentially harmful and they hurt women more than they hurt men.

There are two immutable truths when it comes to a woman’s life. Time and biology serve women more harshly than they do men. And so, if you waste time dating a loser, or trying to make a relationship that will never work to work, you are wasting time. So, who are the losers? Any man who does not respect you. Any man who does not respect your time. Any man who does not treat you well, abuses you and treats you like a sex machine. Ask yourself: “If I got pregnant, will he take responsibility or will he take off?”

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