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I appreciate the detailed and sincere response.
My core problem with the whole “dating” milieu is that it is fundamentally dishonest. It is dishonest both in that the most common advice given to individuals is lies, and in that any imperfect man must be dishonest about his intentions in order to get laid. Comment 171 syndrome is real, and it’s chewing young men up. Your average introvert doesn’t want to chat up the girl in his class for her personality. That’s what being an introvert means. Our young hero has to either:
Suck it up and live the rest of his life alone.
Say how he feels and get labeled the local creep. Or:
Come up with some elaborate scheme with a false motive for getting together so that he can have plausible deniability when he invites her back to his room — at which point, presumably, sexual advances will no longer be excessive or abrupt (I honestly don’t know if that’s true. I’ve never gotten that far before. There might be even more steps after).
I think your definition of “creep” is bad because it perpetuates this insanity.
I mean, yes, and if that girl is charmed by you at all, she'll have to pretend to care about whatever niche interest you're into. Welcome to normal human relationships.
If you want to be an introvert, the price is, yes, it'll be harder for you to build those initial relationships.
Honestly, a lot of complaints from people in general, but mostly men, when it comes to the dating scene seem to basically be a lot of the time, "I can't act exactly the way I want too, and get exactly what I want." No, but 90% of people in general can't, at least for the person they want.
Wow, normal human relationships suck! I always just looked for things we both liked, so no one had to pretend.
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