Welcome back to the female dating strategy, the meanest female only dating podcast on the internet.

I am Diana.

And I am Rose. And I'm so happy to be back here with Diana because today we're taking it back to

the basics. In other words, we are taking it back to what started at all, the FDS handbook.

Diana, do you recall when you first stumbled across the handbook?

So I was on the page for a while before I even knew that there was a handbook.

I think the handbook came afterwards.

Like, I don't know at what point it came about.

They compiled it after.

They compiled it in the course of the subreddit becoming popular.

Yeah.

So I think the first time I came across it is when I started listening

to the podcast and I realized that they had a forum. And then I think they published it on the forum. And so I have

a copy of it on my Kindle that I keep on at all times and the off chance that I slack. You know what I mean?

It's like my Bible. I go back and I reread it and I'm like, you know, chapter one, don't get a first quote.

I go back and read the scripture. Yeah, I really think it's important because again, like,

what were we talking about before is how much unschooling there is as women under patriarchy.

So this whole inveterate people pleasing that we all seem to suffer from where it will please

everybody and anybody except for ourselves. That is conditioning. That is that is brainwashing. And in order

to unschool ourselves in that manner, it takes more than just one time reading something or one

time deeply meditating on it. I would argue for many of us,

it will take a lifetime of consistent mindfulness. And so the handbook exists as sort of a symbol

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