Punk’s rules for successful online friendships with women:

1) there is no 20-something that wants to hear a 40+ man tell her she’s hot

2) when a woman trusts you with friendship, you have a responsibility to return that friendship without creepiness https://twitter.com/vonfoxhole/status/1287100305268772865

3) flirting is fine as long as it’s friendly and conscious not to cross boundaries

4) never, ever DM anything you’d be upset or ashamed of if screenshot and posted

5) and most important, don’t be weird

Keep it light, friendly, PG-13...ish, and you can’t go wrong.

It’s one thing to go “wow, you look really nice/that looks really good on you” or even the occasional “damn girl!”, but once you stray into “I’d like to rub one out with a lock of your hair”, you’ve burned that bridge to the ground and should be rightly pointed to the

nearest volcano. The simple truth is that all these ladies are fucking smokeshows and they’re not asking for me to tell them that. They get plenty of that, or should anyway. What they want is to have a friend they can trust and someone who isn’t going to violate that trust.

Personally, and me being serious, I love banter. Flirty or fighty or philosophy or whatever, I’m a lover of good conversation. I don’t give a fuck if you know I think you’re physically attractive. I do give a fuck if I’m someone you can talk to privately, if you choose to.