Sorry, Robot, I have read some of the things you’ve related and I should’ve added a caveat to my above post that I was purely coming at what I wrote from a female perspective. The only thing I might ask, if I were in your position, is if I were aiming at dates beyond my pay grade. There have been a time or two that I’ve been so enamored of a fellow’s awesome personality and his incredible kindness towards me, that I didn’t take into account that he was probably turning local supermodel types away by the droves. Doing that led me to showing interest, then going down in flames because he could have any girl with a great attitude and an incredible body. So, I learned to stay on my own playing field, to good enough success to keep me occupied and happy.
Oh, no apology is necessary. Yes, the tactics that men and women use to find partners are different, and so the tactical advice you might give them is different, too. But the sense of frustrated resignation she expressed is not unique to either gender.
I know well a number of women, their personality, their tastes, their motivations, their experiences. I’m equally as qualified to talk about women as a woman is. She’s only more qualified about one woman, herself, out of 3 billions and a half women.
What is silly is making generalizations about women or men, regardless of your own gender. People are icredibly different.