Question 1:

I work on a Casino floor and in the few months I've worked there I've been what I believe to be flirted with a half dozen times, always by women over 40. Take a recent case for example of a milf who looked 52 chatting me up at I paid her several jackpots. The conversation was friendly (non-sexualized) but she physically touched my forearm, made long eye contact and smiled a lot. After I paid her for the last time she said she was leaving and her and her girlfriend started walking out, to which she turned back to me and said she hoped to maybe see me again. I found this odd at the time as I don't really know her, but realize now she could have very well been giving me plenty of openings to escalate. Was she a nice older woman being friendly to a babyfaced manlet, or a single cougar finding something she could sink her teeth into?

Question 2:

When I was younger (am 28 now) I found I had a lot more tolerance and genuine interest in what women had to say, even if it was the most basic shit ever. However these days, I find the majority of women to be vapid bags of air totally devoid of any unique personality or interests that I find fascinating. When my friends wife talks for example, I usually tune out completely because I couldn't give a fuck less about the conversation. The conversation was something like this: "Haha ohh yaaa that actress from Mad Men is in such and such, same with such and such". The conversation went on for like 5-10 minutes. Think about all the science, philosophy, art, music, skills, hobbies etc etc there is to life and this fucking barely-human autist is sitting there talking about actresses being in different movies / tv because this persons life consists of changing shitty diapers all day and watching netflix inbetween SkipTheDishes orders.

I am not enough a fool to just brand all women as basic, but the more I sit back and observe women talking in general the more I realize a majority of them are basic, surface-level creatures. My question is how on Earth guys of all stripes and alpha levels can put up with this?

If I am on a date with a girl and she's talking, I honestly could not give a fuck less about her dog, her thailand trip last winter or her IG photography. I'm just sitting there counting down the seconds until I fuck her. That's just the honest truth. If I wanted stimulating conversation I can go to several of my closest bros to discuss Carl Jung or the theories of Terence McKenna. Mention anything beyond surface-level to most women and they have a deer-in-the-headlights reaction and look at you like you're a fucking loser.

I feel like sitting there hearing a woman babble on while not giving a shit is a dishonest act, one that I want to avoid. I do want to be interested in what a woman has to say but I find a majority of the time it's completely vapid, soulless, pointless, meaningless type conversation.

How some guys can put up with it I have no idea. Are they faking it? Some guys I see on dates with girls just cruise through it all smiles with seeming 100% energy. Are these guys just putting a front?