Been in the US almost a year now. Practically zero culture shock coming from Australia - it's basically plug and play. Figured it was about time a foreigner told you everything that's wrong with your country, bahaha. Kidding, I hate the douchebags who do that. Anyway.
If there's one quality that's noticeably different in American women it's the level of flakiness. Out of a dozen first dates I'm hard-pressed to recall one where a woman was able to stick to the original plans. Now that's annoying, but it's hardly unique to American women.
Here's what I'm accustomed to from Oz. If the flake comes with a counter-offer, she's still interested and we're all good. Flake and no counter is a polite brush-off and I move on. Binary. Simple. American girls though. SMH.
A couple of times when I've had the flake and no counter, I've had a sense that her interest was still high. Threw out an option B. That sounds great but I can't because.... Okaaaay (getting real tired of this sh*t) how about option C? Sure!!!
Wait, what?
More and more I'm coming to the belief that the average American girl is incapable of initiating anything (even when it's her turn so to speak). No agency whatsoever - and it's just repulsive to me at this point.
Edit: So actually yes, the flakiness is just a symptom, a behaviour. If you really want to break it down to the root cause - I'd say American women have been infantilised to a far greater extent than women in other Western countries.
If there's one quality that's noticeably different in American women it's the level of flakiness. Out of a dozen first dates I'm hard-pressed to recall one where a woman was able to stick to the original plans. Now that's annoying, but it's hardly unique to American women.
Here's what I'm accustomed to from Oz. If the flake comes with a counter-offer, she's still interested and we're all good. Flake and no counter is a polite brush-off and I move on. Binary. Simple. American girls though. SMH.
A couple of times when I've had the flake and no counter, I've had a sense that her interest was still high. Threw out an option B. That sounds great but I can't because.... Okaaaay (getting real tired of this sh*t) how about option C? Sure!!!
Wait, what?
More and more I'm coming to the belief that the average American girl is incapable of initiating anything (even when it's her turn so to speak). No agency whatsoever - and it's just repulsive to me at this point.
Edit: So actually yes, the flakiness is just a symptom, a behaviour. If you really want to break it down to the root cause - I'd say American women have been infantilised to a far greater extent than women in other Western countries.
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