https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/aggravated-women-socially-awkward-men-make-seattle-the-nations-worst-city-for-singles-says-love-podcast-host/

“I quickly learned that Seattle men are far different from any other I’ve encountered: shy, timid and seemingly incapable of striking up a conversation, let alone offering to buy a female a drink,” Danielle Campoamor wrote in a 2013 opinion piece for The Seattle Times about her experience dating here as a straight woman. “The Seattle males’ inability to successfully merge with their female counterparts reminds me of the colossal cluster that is I-5 onramps. Much like a Seattleite merging onto a freeway, our men’s apprehensive tendencies leave them incapable of finding either the open lane or the open bar stool.”

Says podcast host Howie: “There are opportunities in every city, every day, to find the connection you are looking for. But there are certain cities where the singles are certainly making things harder for themselves. The past year has unquestionably been a challenging one for the dating dynamic between men and women throughout the country, and Seattle certainly stood out as not being up to the challenge.”

It's not uncommon for me to hear female friends claim that male passivity is a problem that makes dating more difficult for them and it seems this feeling is correlated with living in a big coastal city. Do women carry any responsibility to fix this equation, or is it primarily men's fault for being too passive? I would like also like to discuss why coastal and larger cities themselves are where these complaints are common.

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