Flirting

In case you need some help flirting this link will provide you with some scientific guidance:

Flirting is much more than just a bit of fun: it is a universal and essential aspect of human interaction.

It is has some good advice, such as:

We only become aware of the rules when someone commits a breach of this etiquette – by flirting with the wrong person, perhaps, or at an inappropriate time or place. Chatting up a widow at her husband's funeral, for example, would at the very least incur disapproval, if not serious distress or anger.

Gender Equity

From Freakonomics:

Men who believe a woman’s place is in the home, rather than in the workplace, are likely to earn substantially more than men who believe women deserve equal pay for equal work.

...sexist men earned, on average, $11,930 more per year than their egalitarian male counterparts over a 25-year period.

...women who believed in gender equality earned $1,052 more per year than women who held more “traditional” views.

Assuming a sexist man marries a woman who accepts her place is in the home, the sexist man has to earn enough to support two people. Whereas a non-sexist man only has to earn enough to support just one person. From my perspective, sexism does not pay (i.e., $11,930 is not enough to compensate for having to support two people as opposed to just one).

Wit and Sarcasm

At Psychology Today, Louise Dobson writes:

...in a series of studies, participants were only able to accurately communicate sarcasm and humor in barely half—56 percent—of the emails they sent. What's worse, most people had no idea that they weren't making themselves understood.

In my experience, people tend to think I am being humorous when I am being serious, and serious when I am being humorous. Of course, I view that to be user defects, and not a defect of my writing.

via Guy Kawasaki