Pimp Week 1: Iceberg Slim, Opening Scene

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to The Rawness RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!From the opening pages of Pimp by Robert Beck (better known as Iceberg Slim) (slang translations provided by me in brackets):
I grinned widely, inside of course. The best pimps keep a steel lid on their emotions and I [...]

Why You Can’t Trust People To Say What They Really Want

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I meet a lot of guys who complain about women claiming to like “nice guys” but actually preferring jerks. It’s a reassuring fiction that shields their egos, but it’s really not that simple. First off, these “nice guys” are rarely actually nice guys. After all, the only people they seem to be consistently [...]