Part of me wants to accept that dating is hard for everybody but this interaction is coloring my experience is very gray

I was very flattered and I was not angry or rude to her as that would be a dick move but I have been feeling salty because in my head I think that that girl probably has done this only a few times in her life and we'll never know the true anguish of going through stages of your life being rejected

And I can't keep that thought out of my head I cannot keep the thought that most women will not know going through elementary middle and high school completely clueless and dateless

Part of me is saying congratulations for her for Having the courage to do that but I can count on my hands how many times the hand just going up to a girl was congratulated instead of something else to be made fun of for

I don't know why I have this was it meant for the whole game but I do and I hate it and I want out of it but nowadays people love touting about their personal experience and their lived experience and I don't think there is a female equivalent of a man going through his life getting rejected and rejected and rejected and having to force himself to do stereotypically manly things for a woman even though we're supposed to be in a new world we're gender doesn't

It has been on my mind all month. Yes a girl can go up to a guy but it will not take the sheer will power mind power social skills and courage to do it like a man does and I know that's a nasty thought but it's something I keep seeing in my day-to-day life. I don't think people address