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...That's what makes him so pathetic: the "seriousness", the fact that he doesn't seem to be making fun of himself. And yes, I find sex and the city awful too. But I understand why it's been so popular: It's funny (in a very superficial way), glamorous and full of hot chicks in high-heels looking forward to get laid. Americans love that :-) (oh, I'm European by the way)
--sr
06/23

But M...that's different. "Sex and the city" is a totally superficial T.V show with fictional caracters ment to amuse us with their frivolous and stupid dialogues.It's a caricature of certain types of now-a-days wealthy white New yorkers. The whole thing is meant to be a big fat joke (at least that was Candice Bunshell's intention when she wrote it). The problem with this guy is that he's no fictional caracter. That's he's life. And he seems to take himself pretty seriously. That's the difference. Maybe he should lighten up and make more fun of himself. That would make him somehow funny...
--sr
06/23

You won't see a woman, gay man or minority crucified in this manner. apparently people fly off the handle if a 40 something white male recites the female dialog from Sex and The City, verbatim, as a man. I hate that fucking show but i suspect his detractors love it. The hypocrisy/sanctimony is defs barfable.
--m
06/17

ML -- I suspect most people haven't actually SEEN any of his crappy work, since he was hardly a household name, at least until the Gawker editors started him on the road to infamy. But you're right, the delusional misogyny is all there in the truly terrible If Lucy Fell, along with the bad writing and cringe-inducing acting. I bet this sad book is a vanity publication; he wrote some hurting small press a check to bring out a little run of it. Pathetic.
--MJ
05/25

Wow! He may not be every woman's worst nightmare but what he doesn't know about women is ALOT! I hope one of these female friends of his would sit down and explain that we are people too. It seems he is looking for a list not a person. As someone who is happily married and has all the things he wants to have, I have to say-if I started with a list of criteria that my husband would have had to fit, he would have been out in the first 10. For example, he is younger than me. If I had put an age limit on who I would consider I would have never found this wonderful person who shares my values and humor and life. Maybe when Eric grows up enough to try to get to know a woman the way he would get to know a friend he will find the woman of his dreams. And he wont have to know her exact age, what car she drives etc, first. I can guarantee if he drops the quiz and just tries to get to know the soul of the woman he will have alot more luck! Kudos on an interesting article! While I can't see myself reading the book, your article was interesting enough to make me want to sit down and have along talk with this person.
--MD
05/25

Hmm lets see: " I've found there's a lot more game-playing with women online, that they're there for their ego, they want to see how many men are attracted to them, they want attention, they don't really want to meet up, they don't want to talk — just a lot of fucking lying" "or one week, between Christmas and New Year's last year, for fifteen hours a day, I clicked on every fucking woman on Nerve Personals. I went systematically state by state. On a normal day before I started doing this, I was getting about nine views a day. After I started doing this I was getting four hundred views a day. And I moved up and finally became number one." Uh, yeah that pretty much defines being there for your ego, lying and game playing. This loser will will be single forever...until he saves up for a mail order bride, who will learn english fast, divorce him, and open her own business... As for the guy in these comments who feels like he could ' break up' with a woman every week and likens single NYC women to panhandlers ( classy!) , why not just tell that women you are casually dating that you are casually dating...we can handle it, believe me, and 99.999% of us wont fall to pieces if it doesnt work out, we are used to guys like you... Or maybe you should only date people you actually LIKE? What an amazing thought.
--kk
05/25

I can't believe I'm the first to mention how lame is films are. For that reason alone, no bright, discerning woman would ever date him.
--ml
05/25

Another little old narcisistic guy with an exhibitionistic streak. "I can't believe I'm single????" After reading the interview I do know why he's single. Is he desilusional or just kidding us?
--PE
05/24

whenever i read something like this, i am so thankful that i managed to pry myself out of the hairy asscrack that is the film industry before some idiot like this caused permanent damage. conan's wife totes dodged a bullet.
--NC
05/23

How do you write a check, give a blowjob, and say "I will buy your book now" at the same time? With skills like that, how could Eric have turned her down?
--JH
05/23

This guy is hilarious. He's built up so many assumptions about "women" that he's completely lost touch with reality. It makes me almost sorry for him, because he's going to have it really, really hard. Hey, I did say "almost".
--GB
05/23

He is so revolting. Nice job in the interview attempting to provide him with a reality check, but I think it's safe to say, self-awareness is going to continue to elude this waste of skin, and the more he talks, the more he hangs himself. If the Gawker coverage, which was nasty yet truly hilarious (though it made me want to hide under my bed and never date again) didn't open his eyes, nothing will. While I can't claim to speak for women everywhere (we don't all share the same brain, though misogynists like this troll seem to think so), I think I can safely say most of can believe Eric is still single, and would find it a lot harder to believe if he weren't. Yech.
--MM
05/23

he does seem like a bit of a dick, but there is a case to be made for frankness in life. back when i was single i found it exhausting to be a serial dater in the new york dating world because you are so empowered as a moderately successful late 30s guy. its an inversion of the power dynamic between girls and boys in highschool. and because we guys have been on the other side of the fence, we feel guilty about breaking things off with women, even when we don't show it. Serial dating in new york as a moderately successful guy you can easily be breaking things off with women on a weekly basis, and after a while you feel like a heel. having a defined set of criteria -- perhaps even an impossible set of criteria -- makes the process less cruel, or at least that's the idea. i have a similar approach with panhandlers in new york (bad metaphor i know) -- if they are over 50 i give them money; if they are under 50 (and presumably more capable of getting a job), i don't. this policy relieves a lot of guilt.
--ted
05/23

Wow. He's managed to make himself look like even more of an asshole. For the record, I've met a fair amount of women through Nerve Personals (including my long term partner) and almost all of them were normal girls and not one of them was a "fucked up liar" or whatever the fuck he calls them.
--BJC
05/23

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