Dude, you have replied to a post that was made by a 45 year old guy on October 8, 2001. It sounds like a middle-aged incel like guys' post (ie similar to my type of posts, but it was made in 2001).
It is worth noting, for the record, that nothing has really changed between 2001 and today. It's just the face of middle-aged people has changed. I'm now middle-aged today, but I was a young adult in University in 2001. You were probably a teenager.
What excuse does someone in 2001 have to lean on to post like that? They can't blame Tinder, or Chad or the #Me-Too movement, or some crazy lady puting up a Tic Tok video to shame a guy she doesn't find attractive that approached her, etc.... It sounds as though, if were were put into a time-machine, and put back in time, before social media, and when the internet was young, and we lived a longer portion of our lives before the internet, do you realize we would be saying the same thing?
Yeah, I saw after I had already replied that the post was made in 2001. Looks like somebody else revived the thread the day after Christmas; I wasn't aware the thread was more than 2 decades old
(Incidentally, the poster I quoted from 2001 is still active. I wonder how his luck with the ladies is at 45 vs when he made that post in his early 20s)
I wasn't even a teen yet in 2001. I was a 10 year old 5th grader. How quickly the years have passed.
I'd say a lot has changed since 2001. As you indicated, there was no Tinder, Me Too, or TikTok in 2001. Social media and swipe apps in particular have made the landscape a lot different.
You're right, however, that even before the internet was huge, men complained about bad luck with the ladies. That's because we/they didn't know anything different back then. Their/our mentality was "This sucks; I wish it were easier to get a girl/woman"
Little did they/we know, however, that the first decade of the 21st century would end up looking mighty easy (in terms of getting girls) in hindsight come 2025.
I was in high school from 2005-09. I remember complaining a lot about bad luck with girls back then. If I could get into a time machine to be my current age (33) in the 2005-09 era, however,
and I had the knowledge of how much 2025 would suck, I'd take advantage of the comparatively easy 2005-09 environment.
Social media had just become somewhat mainstream when I entered high school (the MySpace era). There was no Instagram. Dating sites were still somewhat stigmatized (and the dating sites back then were strictly desktop; no swipe apps)