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Re:Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013) by ilaksh on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:06AM (#13874554)
The short version is that there are significantly more men than women and the women receive many messages, so they can just pick the best looking/most wealthy/stable-seeming men to reply to and almost have to ignore the rest as spam.

The problem for me has been that most years I haven't made a lot of money and I am somewhat unattractive. There are some issues with facial asymmetry that I was actually unaware of until recently -- and the funny thing is that when I went on a dating forums site and asked about it, they were quite rude in dismissing my concern, suggesting I was average or above average.

But after years of real-life attempts and online messaging never receiving replies from attractive women and rarely receiving replies at all, I have slowly realized over the years that I am a little bit ugly, and not having the good solid job or good height, means that attractive women do not have time for me. Which makes sense for them, its just hard for me to deal with since just because one is unattractive does not mean that they are attracted to _other_ unattractive people. I am attracted to attractive women and repelled by unattractive women. Which the same is probably happening the other way too.

So I have stopped trying to meet women and my new plan is to become independently wealthy and improve my face with surgery.

Re:Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013) by vecter on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @04:52AM (#13874708)
> and the funny thing is that when I went on a dating forums site and asked about it, they were quite rude in dismissing my concern, suggesting I was average or above average.

I think you should open your mind and understand why they think or believe that. If you do, you'll probably save yourself an incredible amount of pain, suffering, and frustration.

Re:Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013) by ilaksh on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @05:38AM (#13874926)
I wanted to believe them and acted on those assertions, but after another 4 or 5 years of the same situation and then finally doing some analysis of my face in photos, I realized they were wrong. So after about 3 decades of believing I was normal and either having relationships only occasionally with very few unattractive women or none (almost entirely alone), I now have accepted an explanation.