https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...on/573949/
I tried searching, but nothing came up. Maybe I'm not using the search panel properly, because I can't believe I'm the first to post a thread about this article. Anyway here are some choice excerpts.
>>Accordingly to a November 2017 Economist/YouGov poll, 17 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 now believe that a man inviting a woman out for a drink “always” or “usually” constitutes sexual harassment
Wasn't it Marcis Aurelius who wrote, "when society goes mad, all you can do is try to save yourself until the madness passes"'? Or something like that. Also apropos: "A word to the wise is sufficient". My third grade teacher told me that but it wasn't until years later that I understood what she was driving at. Anyway, I'm wise enough now that methinks the above except is plenty sufficient reason to confine my approaching and drink invitating to girls in Ukraine and other countries not yet gone mad regarding these behaviors.
>>if a man or woman has not had intercourse by age 25, there is a reasonable chance [he or she] will remain a virgin at least until age 45.
We have quite a few guys like this here in this forum.
>>Over the course of a year, he reports, only 50 percent of heterosexual single women in their 20s go on any dates—and older women are even less likely to do so.
That last except is particularly interesting to me, because of repeated assertions by guys in the Game subforum that women want sex just as much as men. I tried in vain arguing the contrary, not because I have some subconscious desire to cockblock myself but rather because I want to be operating on the basis of hard facts, not wishful thinking. I don't necessarily give up just because things are bad, but if they are bad, I want to know that so I can adjust my expectations, adjust my methods, and perhaps go fish in a different pond. 50% of single women dropping out of the dating pool has massive implications.
I tried searching, but nothing came up. Maybe I'm not using the search panel properly, because I can't believe I'm the first to post a thread about this article. Anyway here are some choice excerpts.
>>Accordingly to a November 2017 Economist/YouGov poll, 17 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 now believe that a man inviting a woman out for a drink “always” or “usually” constitutes sexual harassment
Wasn't it Marcis Aurelius who wrote, "when society goes mad, all you can do is try to save yourself until the madness passes"'? Or something like that. Also apropos: "A word to the wise is sufficient". My third grade teacher told me that but it wasn't until years later that I understood what she was driving at. Anyway, I'm wise enough now that methinks the above except is plenty sufficient reason to confine my approaching and drink invitating to girls in Ukraine and other countries not yet gone mad regarding these behaviors.
>>if a man or woman has not had intercourse by age 25, there is a reasonable chance [he or she] will remain a virgin at least until age 45.
We have quite a few guys like this here in this forum.
>>Over the course of a year, he reports, only 50 percent of heterosexual single women in their 20s go on any dates—and older women are even less likely to do so.
That last except is particularly interesting to me, because of repeated assertions by guys in the Game subforum that women want sex just as much as men. I tried in vain arguing the contrary, not because I have some subconscious desire to cockblock myself but rather because I want to be operating on the basis of hard facts, not wishful thinking. I don't necessarily give up just because things are bad, but if they are bad, I want to know that so I can adjust my expectations, adjust my methods, and perhaps go fish in a different pond. 50% of single women dropping out of the dating pool has massive implications.