re: Modern women have really lost their minds with financial dating standards

My perspective, being single, is that online dating has taken the fun and spontaneity out of dating. It's made dating little more than a job search, with apps like Bumble and Hinge being just the dating version of LinkedIn. And first dates being nothing more than essentially job interviews.

With online dating it's all about metrics. You height, your looks, your profession, your income. No emphasis on personality or if there's a spark. Like probably most of you I've had genuine connections with women that I probably wouldn't have picked with online dating. And from personal experience (since I've been on and off online dating myself), I've seen women who checked off all the boxes and women who I thought would be a perfect match for me. We meet in person, absolutely no chemistry at all.

It's the personality aspect, the chemistry, that online dating has destroyed. And with #MeToo and women having no problem getting you kicked out of a bar or otherwise humiliating you instead of a simple "no thanks", it's made it very difficult to men to approach.

And to me that's the paradox. Women want more equality but in dating they still want "Tradition". They want to have their cake and eat it too. They don't want to take any initiative in dating. They want Men to approach, which is fine, but then they make it incredibly difficult to approach.

Calculate in the loss of third places in general, inflation (people can't go out as much) and the effects of the pandemic, which all but made online dating the default to meet someone, and it's made dating a complete disaster. I genuinely feel for Gen Z in this regard.