>>1857589See I’d put some effort in, my go to approach was to ask a silly question to get the ball rolling. Problem was half the time I felt like I was talking to a brick wall, or a desert of charisma.
>”Whats the craziest thing you’d try on a pizza?”<“Uhh, I dunno, lol?”
>”Whats your favorite movie genre?”<“I don’t watch movies.”I dunno if it’s just they’re so used to being pursued on these apps they’ve given up trying to make themselves pursuable, or I got a bad hand of matches, but it ultimately made me give up on dating apps entirely.
Honestly I don’t see the future looking good for gender relations. I don’t know much about the history of feminist activism, but I imagine at least part of their success was predicated on the fact Women were inevitably part of men’s lives. There weren’t as many barriers as, say, segregation enforced—or the difference between nations or cultures or faiths. And I think actually interacting with people, forming close personal bonds with them, that’s all important for developing a level of empathy for them and broader support for their rights. When Women are alienated from Men and vice versa, I think a level of solidarity breaks down.
I saw some report about that one football guy’s graduation speech, how he told women to stay in the kitchen, and this one girl said something like she tried to boo, but heard a bunch of guys cheering behind her. And I have to wonder if any of those dudes have women in their life that they respect, other than their moms I guess (even in that case I do wonder if they “respect” them) and without that underlying relationship based on mutual respect or shared social circles, what do women become to them? Something foreign, I’d guess. A “thing” that they see as a nuisance or maybe even hostile. Sure maybe in the abstract they’d care if, say, they saw a woman being beaten in public—but I think the broader strokes is we’re witnessing a kind of souring in relations.
I suppose that’s the future. It seems to me that some folks think the decay of all these social institutions is a good thing, they’ll see them as “distractions” to some universal class consciousness. That the more the old institutions and social doctrin
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