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I remember internet dating in the 2000’s had a stigma. It was funny when the people who laughed because I was doing it ended up marrying ppl they meet thru online dating.
I get that online dating is far from perfect. But the alternative to many is to date within their close friend circle. Comrades, tell me if I’m wrong, but having sex has always changed friendships and has often ruined friend groups. It’s like, you can never fuck and then go back to being just best buds without fucking.
Comrades, tell me if I’m wrong, but having sex has always changed friendships
Not necessarily. Friends can decide they want to fuck and then just keep on being friends, whether in an ongoing fwb situation or just as a sort of “that happened, probably won’t be doing it again” sort of way.
But yeah, of course in most cases it does.
But yes dating is a awkward, soul crushing, and baffling thing. But as it goes so is life…
Online dating can suck. Online dating is not representative of dating today.
Enshittification is a term for this that seems to be really taking off. Cory Doctorow is the best techbro to leftist pipeline going atm.
I wonder what other possibilities there are. Like, it’s hard to imagine a nomadic group having a similar “dating” culture to post-war Western countries.
Depends on the group and a whole lot of factors. Some nomadic groups had/have super strict dating and relationship norms, others would make free love hippies blush. It’s hard to make really broad, general statements about human behavior like that.
if im not rawdogging it in a baptist church known for hate crimes by the end of a date, the scene is stale
Unironically. I don’t want to have deep, meaningful first date conversations. I want to have sweaty undeservedly passionate sex in the back of a Kia with someone i met an hour ago whose name definitely starts with an M, i think.
I miss being young and living in a city with a thriving professional weirdo scene.
