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Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by jfengel on Friday March 03, 2023 @10:33AM (#35010905)
Your grandmother may have fond memories of the time she met your grandfather, but she likely also has many negative memories of all the men she turned down -- and who then insulted her for doing so. It wasn't all of them, but it only takes a few men calling you a "bitch" to make you want to carry a sign that says "please don't talk to me".

Her granddaughter goes online, where she makes herself available for dating. And yeah, she knows she's going to get a lot of unpleasantness, but at least it's confined to a place she's expecting it. It's not following her into every grocery store, every restaurant, every gym.

The behavior was always creepy. Women were just expected to tolerate it. If you want to meet somebody romantically, go to the places set aside for it. Which also includes some people in some bars, in fact, but you know that every woman on a dating site is there for dating.

Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by archagon on Friday March 03, 2023 @01:23PM (#35013224)
This is exactly the perspective that gets lost in these sausage party threads.
Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by jfengel on Friday March 03, 2023 @02:03PM (#35013652)
The weird part is how many men seem to resent being told it, to judge from the way it's usually downvoted.

If men actually listened to that perspective, they'd have a lot more success with women. Instead, they seem to insist that they're right, and the women are wrong, and they're going to keep doing these behaviors that put women off. They'd rather cling to their perspectives, even over the opportunity to get laid.

Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by foul on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:31PM (#35016422)
People in developed world (and most of all males) not getting laid, marrying, having sons, is a big problem.

But I see as much bad as a problem the abundance of fearmongering news like that on root, which creates big awe for paranoia, which (in this case because these are heterosexual matters) polarizes discussion, which motivates people like you and archagon to decree that blaming will solve anything. Luckily for my mild contempt of your (and archagon's, and whoever else's in this milieu) comment, a generation of men and women having a million other (in their head) "more important things to do" than fail indefinitely at mating, getting old and die childless and probably alone shall be a problem your sons are going to inherit.

Re:Young men say why many of them are single: ‘Dates feel mo... by jfengel on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:46PM (#35016537)
I've just told them how to get laid. It's really not that difficult. Men keep getting wrapped around the axle about how women are to blame for them not getting laid, and no woman wants to have sex with a man who hates women.

I don't know how to break that cycle for those who are committed to it. But any sons of mine would understand that women just like to be treated with respect, and they'll be as successful with women as I have been.