hehe! that was the first thing i thought of!
fish ick.
eewww, don’t touch that guy! he’s got teh ick!
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He seems to think we don’t feel rejection. Of course we do. I can recall with crystal clarity one high school day when a guy I had a crush on delivered a playful comeback/insult that cut me right down to the bone. I don’t think he meant it that badly, but from him…it hurt. Rejection isn’t fun for anybody, but he’s downplaying how it feels for women, like we’re not feeling people too, and emphasizing it as a special threat for men?
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No, you see; women don’t feel things as strongly as men do, if at all. /s Wasn’t there at least one quote from Shakespeare about that?
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If I’m thinking of the right thing, it’s Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night:
There is no woman’s sides
Can bide the beating of so strong a passion
As love doth give my heart; no woman’s heart
So big, to hold so much; they lack retention
Alas, their love may be call’d appetite,
No motion of the liver, but the palate,
That suffer surfeit, cloyment and revolt;
But mine is all as hungry as the sea,
And can digest as much: make no compare
Between that love a woman can bear me
And that I owe Olivia.
To be fair, he’s a self-obsessed idiot, and Viola responds “I know…”
Too well what love women to men may owe:
In faith, they are as true of heart as we.
My father had a daughter loved a man,
As it might be, perhaps, were I a woman,
I should your lordship.
…
She sat like patience on a monument,
Smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed?
We men may say more, swear more: but indeed
Our shows are more than will; for still we prove
Much in our vows, but little in our love.
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That could be what I’m thinking of; thanks! There’s mystery series based on Shakespeare’s plays, called the “Fool’s Guild” series. The first in the series is “Thirteenth Night”, and Feste, the Fool in Twelfth Night is the main character, and sleuth, and is called back to Illyria to solve a murder. The Fools are actually a secret organisation of spies, etc. in the series.
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If dating is a numbers game, the numbers don’t appear to be on the men’s side. According to a 2022 Pew Research Center survey, 63 percent of men under 30 said they were single, compared to only 34 percent of women in the same age cohort.
If you made it men under 60 and women under 30, I’ll bet the numbers would be a lot more equal. Or at least compare only relationships/marriages where the men are not 15+ years older than the women. I mean, how do they think twice as many women as men are partnered can actually happen? There aren’t that many lesbians.
A recent YouGov poll found that 57 percent of women said they’ve been on a terrible date — only 44 percent of men can say the same. With many women no longer willing to accept ghosting, noncommitment, and harassment, men may be forced to change their ways or face being shut out of the dating pool.
OK, maybe we’re getting somewhere here.
“You can see a little bit of risk aversion among young men,” Reeves says. “Partly because they are largely, and I think incorrectly, worried about the risks that are going to come from putting yourself out there.”
You just said that the risk of having a bad date is much higher for women…so which is it?
A 2020 study found that 91 percent of men between the ages of 18 and 73 consumed porn within the last month, compared to 60 percent of women. When a sexual experience — mediated through a screen, no less — is a click away, why risk any potential discomfort?
Or maybe it’s the women who don’t like how they’re treated by men who watch so much porn that they have no idea what a real woman is?
Risking discomfort, oh noes, how scary. Worried a woman will laugh at them (y’all know the rest of that quote).
Ideological and political differences may also be driving singles apart: According to a recent American Perspectives Survey from the Survey Center on American Life, 52 percent of single women say they would be less likely to date a Trump supporter, compared to 36 percent of single men who say they wouldn’t date a Trump supporter. Sixty percent of single women feared that women would be worse off under another Trump administration whereas only 47 percent of single men felt the same. Given that young men appeared to favor Trump in the 2024 presidential election, this may impact their overall prospects.
Men don’t feel that they’d be worse off with Trump, or that the women in their lives would/wouldn’t be? Rather crucial distinction.
When politics looms too large in singles’ lives, and every choice, including who to date, carries significance, relationships can suffer, Reeves says.
Well, there you go. Women let politics (which affects ever aspect of their lives) loom too large, so some men are finding it harder to date.
“It’s really hard to have a good dating market if both the men and women are tending to think the worst of each other in advance. And I see a lot of that on both sides.”
Both sides, huh?
“This whole enterprise needs a lot of grace,” he says, “and a lot of forgiveness and a lot of accepting people in good faith.”
Accepting men who only want significantly younger women who act like porn stars and are gung-ho for Trump’s policies isn’t that big of an ask, gals! Geez, offer up some grace why don’tcha?
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There is entirely too much credence given to the idea of fixing your love life via politics or law these days.
You can’t make some one love you. You can’t even reasonably expect most people to like you.
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Especially when you’re a fucking dick!
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Thanks for breaking down that terrible article for us, great rebuttals too. 
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Thank you. I was trying to work out how those numbers made any sense at all.
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The men are not alright, part fifty million:
Toxic masculinity has infected forks, for some reason.
Having more tines makes a fork “manly,” somehow. And a “manly” fork is desirable, because men are so insecure in their masculinity that they need validation from their cutlery, I guess?
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How many tines more until it becomes a comb?
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I think it’s already a comb, just a very small one. (For mustaches?)
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goatee comb
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Unreal Man Fork:
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It’s dual purpose; they can comb out their beards after dumping food all over them with the wide-ass fork.
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Fork kerning?
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YES! this is a complete sentence.
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