Yes. There's not been a time in my adult life (I'm late 30s and have been in the environment for 20+ years) where getting laid has been easy. I think the environment surrounding getting laid and relationships has gotten more difficult in my 20+ years as a participant. I don't think it is whiny/cry baby to have that attitude. I think it is factual. There are reasons for it. With that said, it's far from ideal to wallow in the negative circumstances that have arisen for Western men.
A lot of what you write about is more relevant in terms of extended relationships as compared to solely getting laid. Getting laid is one component of extended relationships, so there's some overlap.
All of us need to deal with a more competitive and more challenging mating environment. I can empathize with the fact that it is more difficult for men today to get laid. Sometimes it can feel like self-improvement isn't enough. With that said, there are some defeatist attitudes expressed by many men and that's dangerous.
A lot of men ask me what it was like to run game on American women over 15 years ago. While I don't automatically take the nostalgic view that everything in the past was better than today, if you knew how to cold approach in 2001, you received significantly higher results than from the same effort i
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In 2018, prior to Roosh's Christianity conversion, he said....
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Many men who tried game back then become addicted to it because of how effective it was, but today, a man in the bottom 50% who tries game is likely to quit within two years because of paltry gains, and then join one of many “say no to women” movements online. Here’s how game was different when I used it in 2001 at the age of 22 years old…"