Men and women talk past each other constantly on this sub and in everyday life when discussing dating because our lives and experiences are too incomparable to find any common ground.

Most men can't relate to fearing for your life when preparing for a date (even if such fear is irrational), and most women can't relate to the soul destroying torture of going zero for ten in asking men out.

Guys see women as validators of their masculinity and value as men, even if they shouldn't. It's incredibly painful to be told you don't measure up by a succession of women you find attractive. It can be traumatizing for about a third of men whose beliefs might harden into resentment.

Women see men as potential abusers, even if they shouldn't. And it's difficult to act warm and affection with someone you fear might abuse you.

Most men will never be able to relate to a full inbox online, or seeing wall-to-wall smiles from female strangers when entering a room.

Similarly, most women will never be able to relate to an empty inbox online, and constant looks of disappointment or suspicion from male strangers when entering a room.

Guys will never truly understand how annoying it is to have people you're not attracted to hit on you each day, forcing you to measure your words and let them down easy so as not to provoke them.

Girls will never truly understand how the combination of a man's sex drive and a multi-year dry spell make the world seem a cruel and cold place.

The average man and woman's lives are too incomparable to come to any agreement on matters of dating. Our starting points are just too far apart.