I’m a woman so my views might be skewed. But everyone has seen that Hollywood movie of TV shows where the male friend duo goes out as each other’s wing men to meet women at social gatherings and have a good time. Both my grandfather’s told me about how back in their men used to have their father’s drive them to their first date or how everyone had a crush or someone special. Nothing but fond memories. However it seems guys today seem to be all doom and gloom about dating. Why is that so? Why do I never hear men sharing positive stories about their dating experiences?
FWIW as a woman, I think women tend to be more vocal about their dating experiences for better or for worse lol. I chat with my GFS all the time about our dating experiences and I think women tend to talk about it more.
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There are 500+ comments as of right now. It’s an interesting question with a range of answers, which form a telling, crowd-sourced barometer of our world(s) today. Seems more issues than just dating have diverged from raw instinct to techno-modulated post-instinct. The underlying semiotics of traditional behaviors have shifted toward digitalized, instantaneous, sharper but weaker. That’s not all bad. It’s just different. In some ways it’s sublimation, which can be good. When I started dating my current partner, my head was spinning for days. That happened because we already knew each other and only went to the dating level due to changed conditions and there was never any app between us, just human presence and first-order emotions. She still makes my head spin today. ABN
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