10 Steps to Becoming a Sensitive New Age Guy

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What is a SNAG?
Well, first things first, to us girls, a SNAG is defnitely anything but a sissified version of the male species. Instead, we view a SNAG as a guy who, while maintaining his boyishness, still stays in touch with his sensitive side and is not ashamed to show it. He believes in equality of the sexes, treats us girls nicely and shows us the respect we deserve. Not to forget, most girls will swoon at a SNAG because it shows the guy's sensitive side. How do you go about beocming one? Here are 10 steps to SNAGdom from the girls' point of view!

1. Never view girls as a guy's inferior
Chuck away the Neanderthal idea that girls are put on earth to cook and wash for the guys and recognise that we girls have equal standing with you guys. In other words, we want to be shown the same respect you would show other guys. Never belittle our ambitions and aspirations, never put us down to make yourself feel more superior and never ever draw a clear dividing line between girls' work, and guys' work. Yes, this means not making a girl clean yur mud-clogged soccer boots while you sprawl out on the couch and vegetate.

2. Act like a gentleman
All right, we know that a lot of you guys are terrible apprehensive about doing things like pulling a girl's chair out for her, because you fear being labelled an MCP. But really, most girls do still appreciate being treated like a lady now and then. Of course, we don't expect you guys to triple somersault just to reach the door before us so that you can hold it open. But we would appreciate it if you could lend a hand when you see us struggling with a whole lot of shopping bags, or volunteer to get us our food when you see us looking terribly worn-out from a overnight session of exam cramming. Keep the spirit of chivalry alive!

3. Get in touch with your feelings
The guy who openly expresses his feelings and emotions are no longer viewed as the sissy. Rather, he is seen as the SNAG who is not afraid of admitting he is capable of emotions. So the next time you feel sniffly watching sad movie scenes like Death Maul killing Qui-Gon Jinn, don't restrain those tears because you have every right to cry. Likewise, if you feel an overwhelming urge to tell a girl you love her, go ahead and let her know. Don't worry about looking foolish! Nothing endears us girls more to guys thean SNAGs who are willing to open up their tough steely exterior, to reveal to us their soft core of emotional vulnerability.

4. Stop using the words like 'Is it PMS again'?
Nothing riles us faster than having guys think that any perceived mood swings are brought on by PMS, because that basically signals a lack of effort on a guy's part to try to understand us. After all, just like you guys, we girls also encounter stuff that will put us in a lousy mood; a flunked history quiz, a quarrel with a best friend, a pet that died. To be a SNAG, therefore, do not be quick to blame anything on PMS.

5. Learn to listen to us when we talk!
Especially so if we are trying to communicate to you our thoughts and feelings. One of our main grouses about talking to non-SNAGs is that they simply don't listen, so we would love to have SNAGs behave differently from those others. Therefore, do pay some attention to what we have to say. You might become an even better SNAG in the process because you will gain an insight into how our minds work. And we girls do so love someone who truly cares to listen and takes the bother to understand us.

6. Not treating 'sorry' like a dirty word
When a SNAg realises he is in the wrong, he will not avoid making an apology. Even if he doesn't like the feeling of admitting his mistakes, he knows this is the right thing to do and he bravely does it. This shows a guy who values the friendship of the people around him and he will do anything within reasonable limits to maintain it.

7. Give us prority in your life
Of course we are not demanding that you put aside everything in your life and worship the ground we walk on. But let's say you have to make a choice between going alone to a birthday bash where your girl is not invited, and not going to the birthday bash but staying at home with her. A girl would want to be assured that you would rank staying at home with her more important than going to the bash without her. After all, we girls really admire SNAGs who put spending quality time with the girl over having fun without the girl.

8. Respect our ideas and opinions
Even if you hold different opinions from us and may not necessarily agree with our views, we really appreciate it when you givve us a chance to air our opinions and let you know what we are thinking. A SNAG is someone who realises that what a girl has to say is as important as what he himself has to say. And so he gives her an equal chance to speak, listens really attentively to her and does not impulsively jump in to rebut her views.

9. Keep your promises to us
It could be something as simple as calling when you said you would. Or it could be something as big as making a personal sacrifice on your part, like missing the Man U vs. Liverpool live telecast just because you promised the girl to turn up at her family reunion. We girls love it when you honour what is important to us by keeping your promises to us.

10. Finally, love us for what we are
A SNAG will not go out for superficial appearances. So do accept us, bad hair day, bad face day and all, and don't shun us like the plague just because we have been attacked by a bad case of the zits. And don't even think of making stupid jokes about beached whales when you see our mini-T looking a tad too snug. In our moments of insecurity, when we turn to you for confort, tell us that we look beautiful to you anyway, and do patiently repeat it as many times as it takes to convince us.

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    1. Bryan 05/04/2008
    SNAGS !!! HA-HA-HA. Is this chic serious/ I live in W. Mass where there are a lot of SNAGS. Pretty much the only people who like snags are insecure women and insecure men. Most women actually don't like SNAGs because they come with way too much baggage. This article has disaster written all over it. HEY GUYS PICK UP "WAY OF THE SUPERIOR MAN" if you want an idea that really works. This article is a joke.
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    2. MetalH 16/04/2008
    Yup, be a SNAG and never get laid!

    listen, men are men and women are women, they are not the same thing so stop trying to turn men into women.
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    3. SNAG in Japan 07/08/2008
    i'm sorry but your original rhetoric you started this blog off with completely threw me for a loop. I am one of the military's biggest divos if not the only (just mentioning my crudentials) and your description of how to become a SNAG more closely fits the lines of how to become a whiped siss that will accept being walked all over. A true SNAG wont be submissive and will at the least strive for superficial wants. a SNAG cares about how his feelings are and is usually sick and tired of being put on the back burner(yes Reanna I said it) and has some appreciation and remorse for what others have gone through; hence becoming the hopeless romantics.
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    4. Jonathan Stokes 27/08/2008
    Good article, but I think some of the extreme reactions you're getting come from a preconceived notion of what a SNAG is.

    To me, a SNAG is not just a guy that treats you with respect and consideration. I like to think I act like that with all my girlfriends, but Id react negatively if anyone called me a "Sensitive New Age Guy". We may have to chalk this one up to differing experience, Raiha_Evelyn, but all the SNAG's Ive known have been whiny, sanctimonius assholes who think they are owed sexual favours simply because they are "Nice Guys", and that they can curry favour with women just by nodding dumbly to any and all feminist rhectoric they hear.

    You don't seem to want to date a genuine SNAG, you just seem to want to date a considerate, polite man who isn't a sexist jerk.

    To be honest, the only part of your article I took umbridge with was "4. Stop using the words like 'Is it PMS again'?". Speaking as a male, I am sick and tired of being victimised as a result of female mood swings.

    I don't give a shit if it's PMS or not, to be honest: if you're in a foul mood, you can talk to me and I will do *anything* in my power to help make you feel better, including but not limited to giving you space, making myself scarce, or otherwise laying off and leaving you the hell alone for a while, but I have *NOT* been put on planet Earth just so you have someone to vent your frustrations on when you're feeling crappy for whatever reason. Taking your bad mood out on other people is a shitty thing to do, for anyone, to anyone. Most women don't seem to get that, as the propaganda surronding PMS states that it's ok to act like a psychotic asshole, because PMS is a hall pass for all kinds of atrocious behaviour. Fuck that noise.

    Other then that, we're in total agreement.
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    5. jaywalker 24 08/09/2008
    the prioirity part is downright selfish
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    6. Nicola 13/09/2009
    I resent this article. I don't see why anyone should try to change or adapt themselves just to be given a label like SNAG that has a large amount of negative connotations.

    I like men to just be themselves, and as for point seven - I don't get it. Is your boyfriend/husband not allowed to have any fun without you? Sounds insecure. If my boyfriend was invited out to a party, I would be happy for him to go, and would wish him a great time. Why would I force him to stay in doors for a night in when I can get that almost every night? Couples should have their own seperate lives away from each other.

    Your fourth point is as bad as a man saying 'is it PMS'? by assuming that most men say such things. I have never had that said to me in my life, and believe me, there have been times where such a question would have been justified.
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