[Repost due to mis-flair]

I'm not trying to lay blame for everything here, and I thank my lucky scro that I went to highschool in a previous era. I look back at pictures of that time and see huge groups of young ladies and men who were thrilled to see each other and have a good time. It was us against the older generations, not us against each other.

Still, so many men flagellate themselves, basically yanking their own wall toward themselves. How many men do you all know, of all adult ages, whose lives revolve around watching sports, playing videogames, and inhaling shitty food?

Yes, the dating game sucks right now and politics made it suck so much more than it needs to. But how many of those lonely guys could start pulling women if they spent even a third of the time they do playing COD exercising, learning to play an instrument, cooking nutritious food, etc.?

I know that a lot of this is dealing with mental health issues, but there really isn't much to stop lots of young men from exchanging at least some portion of time watching sports and playing video games for anything that's even a bit more rewarding in the long term. It doesn't take that long to learn to play an instrument at a reasonable level, and women give that shit way too much credit. If you can even kind of play a guitar, and you aren't completely hideous, you will get opportunities to talk to women.

Young men have gotten the shaft, but they also have a tendency to shaft themselves on the very basics of diet, physical activity, and basic self-advancement. If a man spends 4 hours a day playing video games and can't be assed to so much as listen to an audiobook while he's doing it, it ain't the legitimately absurd standards of the day keeping him out of the game.

And as a guy who is a little older, let me tell you, every sin of your twenties comes back to bite you three fold over the following decades. It's way harder to push that wall back once a man has already laid it on himself.