Ah yes, I had not accounted for antisocial media. You are on point with that, they are effectively dating apps. But even so it does not explain who these women are actually having sex with, if so many more men are online acting in desperation - if men were getting it on through antisocial media, they would have no need to go onto formal OLD. Either the stats are flawed, which they may be, or many more men than women are more or less sexless, or women are content to live in celibacy but men are not. Something has to give. Either way the mainstream has a ready narrative for it: either that women only want relationships unlike piggish men, or that men are oppressing them from the sex they would want to have if only men would let them. Just like they are oppressed out of wearing revealing clothes and cosmetics in islamic countries, and likewise when they do wear them in the west it is because of mens' oppressive sexism.
My maternal grandparents met on a public transport boat. They started talking, and recognized each other from their neighborhood. Could they imagine that their and their peers' grandchildren would discuss the techniques of fine-tuning your instagram game in 70 years after going to the gym didn't work? Discussing how to "stand out" from the other 300 men who are likewise trying to outsmart the house and don't have enough looks or status for women to contact themselves unlike say, the international athlete a girl I was with contacted and got wined and dined and fucked by or the TV celebrity another one fucked.
PS. I do think "antisocial media" is a funny name, but proper too since it's based on the truth: it is recorded to lower users' selfesteem, correlate (it's unclear exactly how) with narcissism, and coincides with us reporting more and more loneliness than ever before. I only keep my facebook because I keep in touch with a few people on there and it's a convenient place to store pictures from different times and candid experiences (unlike what thirst traps and showoffs of conspicuous consumption/leisure are). Who knows, maybe I will simply start using facebook as a dating app in the future. What's there to lose when you don't care about their judgement anymore? At least it has a better gender ratio.
My maternal grandparents met on a public transport boat. They started talking, and recognized each other from their neighborhood. Could they imagine that their and their peers' grandchildren would discuss the techniques of fine-tuning your instagram game in 70 years after going to the gym didn't work? Discussing how to "stand out" from the other 300 men who are likewise trying to outsmart the house and don't have enough looks or status for women to contact themselves unlike say, the international athlete a girl I was with contacted and got wined and dined and fucked by or the TV celebrity another one fucked.
PS. I do think "antisocial media" is a funny name, but proper too since it's based on the truth: it is recorded to lower users' selfesteem, correlate (it's unclear exactly how) with narcissism, and coincides with us reporting more and more loneliness than ever before. I only keep my facebook because I keep in touch with a few people on there and it's a convenient place to store pictures from different times and candid experiences (unlike what thirst traps and showoffs of conspicuous consumption/leisure are). Who knows, maybe I will simply start using facebook as a dating app in the future. What's there to lose when you don't care about their judgement anymore? At least it has a better gender ratio.