A wake-up call to aging empowered western women: you need to get a life, because your dating options have dried up

Quazz · 2011-01-09T23:21:19+00:00

Sounds about right.

kanuk876 · 2011-01-10T06:03:56+00:00

From the comments:

bookstopper said...

Here, you can definitely see the Captain's earlier life show through with how he's been rejected over the years.

Part of the issue is that women grew up watching disney cartoons and drama movies...art designed to be entertaining...NOT instructional material on how to run your relationships.

Part 2 of this issue is the feminist doctrine of focusing on women at the expense of men. This may make sense when you're trying to climb the corporate ladder or turn yourself into a bitter old paper pusher, but it's no way to relate to men...which is the ENTIRE POINT of a relationship.

Part 3 of this issue is the lack of training society tends to provide when dealing with non-academic issues. Namely, very little. Parents tend to assume children will learn these things for themselves? Would this sort of crap go for economics? math? job skills? No. They're all trained formally.

All this leads to a contemporary woman who focuses on herself as the only point of concern in a relationship. She has no training in what men want or care about. Most importantly, she has no specific plan to move towards what she wants.

I learned long ago to not trust what the media was saying about relationships. I focused on what I could see myself. I asked real married couples who were happy and successful... how they did things. That taught me a lot.

kanuk876 · 2011-01-10T06:04:54+00:00

From the comments:

The time-based diminsihment in male motivation coincides with the time-based diminishment in female appearance.

... something they never taught in women's study classes, I expect. Too ageist, or something.

kanuk876 · 2011-01-10T06:11:21+00:00

From the comments:

I recently visited New York, I was in the USA for the first time, and went to a Contra dance. My personal dance history started with formal training in Irish soft shoe and hard shoe, and moved on to Irish Sets and Irish Ceileidh, Scottish Social and Contra, with a 'minor' in waltz and polka studies on the way, with some training in tap and jazz ballet. I have been held to be a "pretty decent" social couples dancer.

I was astonished to find that some women - who had presumably turned up at an organised Contradance, paid the entrance price and were sitting around chatting, would reject an offer for a dance. Especially because, as is often the case, there were more women than guys in attendance.

And even, I'd have to say, when I'd been dancing on the night and so they could have seen I wasn't a klutz.

I'm of average male looks, athletically slim, 5"10, neat hair, was cleanly showered and shaven and wearing neat casual clothes and dance shoes.

I can't say that has ever happened to me here in Australia, unless said woman was dripping with sweat and fanning herself and breathing hard and (plausibly) gasping "Sorry, I really need to sit one out".

Title	A wake-up call to aging empowered western women: you need to get a life, because your dating options have dried up
Author	Lovekraft
Upvotes	0
Comments	4
Date	January 9, 2011 11:01 PM UTC (15 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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