Digital courtship was doomed to fail from the beginning. It's a popularity contest and it only caters to women with generally passable photography skills and men in the golden ratio who have above average height. You do not want to date a woman who uses a dating app and if you find out she's ever used one, you're best off making that an immediate next. Any woman who's exhausted all options in her personal life and seeks an outlet "on the internet" has a heightened sense of self-value to a detriment, is not looking for a long-distance relationship (no matter what they say, it's not true; women have to take in so many more things than visual appearance, even if they'll settle for otherwise fatal flaws if they find the golden ratio men they seek in looking via the dating service) and is incapable of the delayed gratification of a typical relationship, which indicates a broken woman. Since women are taught to ingratiate their audience and abandon modesty via these services, the ones that use them will be numb to historical norms of courtship; between the typical examples either making the "I'm quirky" appeals or doing their best to showcase their physical attributes (which any palatable woman would never do), women have come a long way from eliciting the foundational attributes that qualify a mate. There's no longer appeals like how good she is with kids involved (why would they present these qualities?... the idea is to have sex and if it isn't then she's certifiably broken), no feminine displays via modesty, something desperately important in a female prospect, ("getting a date" involves abandoning modesty because of the quick dopamine rush of seeing "any other slut) and there's no chemical reaction which is requisite to peer bonding (pheromones are much more important than we're told). All of these things make the subsequent "date" hinge upon the sexual encounter alone and therefore erodes peer bonding, something absolutely vital to long-term commitment.
Dating services, no matter how much we're told, are for men and men alone. No woman will ever get what she wants out of one. She's self-sabotaging even if she finds a golden-ratio male based on courtship fatigue alone. Solely men can adequately benefit because they are presented with their choice of all of the highest quality females. Too bad that they have to trade such an array of choice with knowing that the way they discovered each other was very likely after she's also slept with more than one other man using such a service. Some trade-off...
tl;dr online dating is a waste of every party's time and should only be used for affairs
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