I live in the city (Toronto) is that is rightly reputed to be the worst North American city for men.
I also live in the city that must have one of the the highest rates of online dating.
I believe these two facts are connected, and think we should talk about it. In particular, I want to talk about how online dating may make it harder to pick up, or even meet, girls at night.
If there is one thing that you need to understand about Toronto, it is that women have a pre-approved list of places/ways to meet guys, and everywhere else is frowned upon: meeting guys through friends, in class, at work, at parties and online are all in; almost everywhere else is out, and two places that are indisputably out are clubs and, to a somewhat lesser extent, bars.
This post touches on this and related issues, and discusses them in illuminating ways. (I think this post is an essential complement to Roosh's own post on Toronto.)
Now of course, not all women are reluctant to meet men at clubs and bars, but enough to make nightlife in Toronto miserable for most men.
So how does this relate to online dating? My thinking is that if meeting men at clubs and bars have increasingly become stigmatized among women over the years, this attitude would be harder to sustain if some other avenue of meeting men had not opened up at the same time. I mean think about it; if clubs and bars are increasingly out, then that closes off two previously common places to meet men. There is no reason to think that more opportunity would have opened up at work, say, or through friends.
Online dating is that avenue, in my view. It would help explain why so many women go out here week after week and evince so little interest in meeting men.
Thoughts?
I also live in the city that must have one of the the highest rates of online dating.
I believe these two facts are connected, and think we should talk about it. In particular, I want to talk about how online dating may make it harder to pick up, or even meet, girls at night.
If there is one thing that you need to understand about Toronto, it is that women have a pre-approved list of places/ways to meet guys, and everywhere else is frowned upon: meeting guys through friends, in class, at work, at parties and online are all in; almost everywhere else is out, and two places that are indisputably out are clubs and, to a somewhat lesser extent, bars.
This post touches on this and related issues, and discusses them in illuminating ways. (I think this post is an essential complement to Roosh's own post on Toronto.)
Now of course, not all women are reluctant to meet men at clubs and bars, but enough to make nightlife in Toronto miserable for most men.
So how does this relate to online dating? My thinking is that if meeting men at clubs and bars have increasingly become stigmatized among women over the years, this attitude would be harder to sustain if some other avenue of meeting men had not opened up at the same time. I mean think about it; if clubs and bars are increasingly out, then that closes off two previously common places to meet men. There is no reason to think that more opportunity would have opened up at work, say, or through friends.
Online dating is that avenue, in my view. It would help explain why so many women go out here week after week and evince so little interest in meeting men.
Thoughts?