“At some point, I think a lot of women get the idea that nothing you have to say about your own dating experience really matters. The message sinks in slowly, over years, that women’s dating pain isn’t really a subject that the experts seem to care about. Obviously, if modern dating culture tortures the female heart, their answer is to just keep doing it.

Or just stop forever, I guess. Die alone. See if anyone cares.

Look, do women ever get to admit that dating is not a fun place to be?”

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