People are mocking this article on how to approach women wearing headphones

"How to approach a girl wearing headphones: Don't."
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LONDON -- A blog instructing people how to approach women wearing headphones is getting a lot of attention on Twitter -- for all the wrong reasons.

The article -- published on men's grooming site The Modern Man -- listed tips for approaching women on the street who were wearing headphones.

The tips include pointing at the woman and saying "I want to talk to you for a minute", as well as "confidently" asking her to take off her headphones.


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The advice has been attracting a great deal of attention on Twitter, with many people issuing their own versions of the "creepy" tips...

Well that escalated quickly...

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Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.

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