I really miss the RSDnation forums! Anyone else feel the same?
Anyone know what happened to them? I'm assuming now that they're gone for good which sucks.
There has been a certain arc of history in the heterosexual men's sexual world which has left many of my cohort (i.e., early Gen-X) with a sexual landscape that has turned to utter nuclear devastation.
In junior high school, the teenyboppers were all over us; yes, they would dump us after a few weeks, but there was always someone else that was decently attractive that would chase us. High school was not quite as good, but it still seemed like it was not too hard, at least for lads going to a regular non-sex-segregated high school - as opposed to the one that folks like me & Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh attended (he is the only major politician that has an article at the Incel Wiki ). Then college came around - and this was back in the days before coeds started greatly outnumbering men - and it got a bit harder as coeds were being pounced by the cohort just older than us.
Then once we got out of college, the coeds that we were supposed to be pouncing on (and winning, since we were college men just like the students, but out of college and beginning to BetaBux) were less in number. However, as there was a cohort of women that were just a little older that was more numerous, we could CougarMax for a little while. But then these older women started to get a bit older, getting married of becoming single mommies ... and then the Dark Times came.
At some point in the mid 90s, the dating market seemed to utterly freeze up; single, attractive women just disappeared from the social scene entirely. This collapse was presaged by a collapse for non-college men, and brought about the first wave of electronic-facilitated-dating known as the 800-number "date lines", but this gradually morphed into the early online-dating scene, first with profiles without photos, but quickly with photos - and since virtually all the profiles were of land whales or trannies
, the first glimpse of the pestilence that was to come. The only upside was the facilitation of LocationMaxxing.
About this time, the internet also allowed for the blossoming of the Game Industry. Yes, there were always a books like "How to Pick Up Girls" that could be found at major bookstore or in the classifieds of journals like Penthouse, but The Game really took off with the widespread adoption of the internet. The growing cohort of desperate men felt at first that this new discovery of knowledge was the key, but soon enough they came to realize that Game only worked for Chaddish-tier men, hence the gradual movement of men from PUA to memes like PUAHate in which these PUA adherents commiserated about how The Game was not working. The dawning of the realization that PUA will not help most men was recognized by the early prophets of the True Forced Loneliness meme, with "Roller" Steve Hoca expounding on the true darkness of the situation. Of course, there is the well-known 5-letter word to describe the ultimate repository of these men that finally learned the truth of their situation.
OLD then transformed from a meme that seemed to place importance to things that were not LooksMoneyStatus. The first clink in the armor was the homosexual dating site Grindr, which put out the meme that the only thing that mattered in dating is raw good looks - and of course, since that is pretty much ALL that matters to these men, it exploded (pun NOT intended). With internet pornography gradually devolving the heterosexual community, the time was ripe for the most consequential thing to human mating since The Pill - of course, I'm talking about Tinder, aka Grindr for heterosexuals.
What Tinder did was in essence retailize dating goods. Just like grocery stores became enormously huge and offering just about any product from any producer, large or small, so did Tinder put sexuality itself on the shelf. But it also brought home the full weight of the dystopia for most heterosexual men as they had enormously poor ratios of swiping to actual first-dating. And once women started flocking to Tinder, the barrenness of the "night game" scene expanded to the social-network-game scene; whereas a man who had a good social network could still hope to find a gem, in the age of Tinder, such gems have already been corrupted by the onslaught of attention from the starving, desperate men there. Even church-game - which had always been considered as the least corruptible - has been corrupted.
And then following on from Tinder came OnlyFans & Patreon, creating a dating marketplace where men have to fight it out by financially supporting women just to get her to acknowledge their existence and the social interaction of a "thank you" for the gift. Ironically, this has reached full circle, going back to an era where suitors would buy gifts for women they hoped to court. Of course, while such men would be in a relatively small enough pool that most would be ultimately successful, the pool is now is boundless, and only Chad - who didn't need to give any gifts or attention - is getting the poon.
I think we are about to hit the inflection point of the decline in our Mouse Utopia experiment.