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Yes, unfortunately.

A thin, unmanly unkempt moustache of the type a teenage boy would grow (but on a man), although it could just mean any moustache without beard.

So are you prepared to play the feminine role - submissive, prepared to be a stay at home mother if that's what he wants - or does the defined gender only apply to men? To be honest you don't sound particularly feminine.

Lol I'm going to be openly talking that way about people as a balding, now middle aged guy? I know my place. These girls get a lot of interest and a phony sense of empowerment via dating apps and social media, and that translates into arrogance. I would hate to be a Gen Z guy dealing with it.

Not saying it out loud to others.

"I'm 5'6" - I've dated 5'6" before - it doesn't work!" "I mean, have some standards." "That guy's my type...except he's too short." "Ew he has a creepy **** moustache. I hope he doesn't come over here." "That one's going bald." etc. Comments I overheard from a couple of Gen Z girls sitting...

Lack confidence? Oh no, can't have that. So you get to be a shy, avoidant, neurotic mess, with partners still showing up, but men should be a wellspring of 24/7 masculine energy.

It's worth mentioning the same women probably wouldn't even have spoken to him 30 years ago when he/they were in their 20s.

It's an expensive gaslight. There's no advice a therapist could give you in your situation you couldn't work out for yourself or get from strangers online. Sure, maybe they'll help you cope with the situation better, put the rejections into perspective, not be in such a depressive state, but...

Also dedicated to @randomguy

I'm becoming more and more like Unsigned here (but without the stomach to go down the escort route). Another year on campus. Another group of young adults starting out the best part of their lives while mine is over. Most of my age peers who aren't already tied up with child-caring are low...

The emotional side is also instinctual. That goes for friendships too. We're programmed to form bonds and feel anxious without that. Being isolated from the group would have been a death sentence. Happily alone isn't our default state

pfft... It's possible to be happy stuck in an 8 foot cell 24/7 with nothing but a copy of The Joy of Cooking to keep one amused for 70 years. Do you think it's reasonable to expect most people will be happy in that situation? Naturalistic fallacies are when people invoke evo psych to...

We're a sexually reproducing species hardwired to seek out close bonded sexual relationships, ultimately for that purpose, whether or not we individually reproduce. To put that on a similar level to a superficial high or the emotional crutch of drugs or similar addictions is frankly kind of...

There are better places for that, though. I suspect you're here because you're lonely and want some kind of interaction, like the rest of us. Have the majority of people been addicted to hard drugs at some point? Are hard drugs a requirement for the continuation of the species? No equivalence.

You just made the case for a happy life without the need for others, based around introspection and inquiry. Well it's hard to square that with arguing online. And anyway, I strongly disagree. Relationships represent a serious risk, even for those who can easily get into them. Women risk their...

There's a million better things a person could be doing.

The point being if you were able to successfully implement this view into your own life then you wouldn't be here, wasting time with the malcontents.

It's inevitable that men rely on women for affection, since that would be (almost always) the sole source of it in a man's life. More broadly, the idea that people can live happily without these needs being met is a feature of the kind of society we live in; 'bootstrap' value, discouraging...

'Going out' and 'talking to single women who don't find you repulsive' while out are two very different things.