Been seeing more and more of this lately - guy and girl have a good first date. Guy follows up with girl. They never see each other again and there is no second date.
How much of this is due to the explosion of dating apps in recent years?
Any woman with a Tinder/Bumble/POF/OKCupid account she has a steady stream of suitors knocking at her door. Rest assured, there are hundreds of better looking men with more status messaging her. Many of these guys won't commit, but they'll "hit it and quit it".
Men are as faithful as their options. Women are as choosy as their options. With smartphone dating apps, an attractive woman's options are seemingly infinite.
In the past, a woman would stick with a guy after a good date because she had no other solid prospects lined up. Now she's more likely to stray as she has far more options and direct access to the bigger, better deal.
Online dating is courtship distilled to its essence without the filter of the fear of approach.
A 1000 rejections in the real world would cripple a man. A 1000 rejections in the virtual world mean nothing.
Thousands of men messaging without the fear of approach + women with infinite options is a recipe for dating disaster. Unhappy women who can't get a top man to commit, and unhappy men who can't get a date.
The growing popularity of dating apps has put the average man's dating prospects in serious jeopardy.
This phenomenon is unprecedented in human history.
Thoughts?
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This is why rule #1 is Be Attractive and rule #2 is Don't Be Unattractive. It sucks to be the average man.
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Bad news: To an extent, yes it has
Good news: There is an easy way to fix the problem, don't be average
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A girl's SMV is pretty much solely based on her looks. A guy's SMV isn't 100% fixated on height or looks like a lot of the insecure males on here tend to believe. This mean if a woman's ugly she's basically fucked, yet if a man isn't good looking or is short, he can make up for it by exceeding in other areas. Be successful, have a good job, be fun/spontaneous, be interesting, be different etc. This is why Rollo believes a woman's SMV peak is in her early 20s (beauty peak) and a males SMV peak is in the mid 30s (successful, career, etc).
Would anyone on TRP be interested in an ugly, unsuccessful, and boring female? Absolutely not. The same applies to women with men.
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The moral of the story is don't be low SMV. If you are born ugly and short, yet get jacked, make good money, become successful, funny, etc you're telling me you will still be a low SMV male? There are so many things you can do to raise your "value" to offset bad genetics or whatever you want to call them. Heck Neil Strauss is 5'6", average looking at best, bald, and doesn't even lift yet he got a lot of pussy.
Being short or ugly isn't a death sentence bro...
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