Good manners for nice people who sometimes say f*ck

This book was actually different than I had expected: I expected a primarily humerus commentary on human beings who tried to be politically and socially correct at least. In fact, it was a book about polite, courteous, and kind ways of dealing with 21st century situations.
It included such things as cell phones, online dating, groups of strangers, groups of impolite people, defusing potentially obnoxious situations, etc., etc., etc.
It WAS humerus, but that was not the primary goal. Ms. Alkon had advice, commiseration, and commentaries. It was amusing and instructive.

The underlying concept (or one of them), that human brains can only socially deal with a maximum of 150 other people is an interesting revelation, especially given the current arrangement of society today. However, the rest of the book was a lot less interesting. While many of the tips seemed ok (although, some veered into rants), some of her strategies just seemed a bit weird and needlessly confrontational (or in some cases, to be the opposite and far too forgiving).

Some stuff is actually quite ok, but I strongly disagree on the heteronormative recommendations for dating, those are just plain stupid and kinda ruined it for me. For the rest it really boils down to "don't be an asshole", but if I wanted to read more about that I'd probably go for Kant…