Why single men aren’t approaching women in person anymore: ‘I’m so sick of this’

In today’s digital dating world, where single people would often rather meet a potential suitor online, one of the main complaints — particularly from women — is that people rarely approach someone they’re interested in in person anymore.

A North Carolina model, who said she hasn’t been on a date in almost a year, blames her good looks for intimating men from striking up a conversation with her.

“It’s difficult being this hot,” the single woman told Jam Press. “Men think I’m too beautiful to date or worry that I’ll turn them down.”

Women are frustrated that men rarely approach them in public anymore. nullplus – stock.adobe.com

Other women — as explained in this Reddit thread — blame men for not knowing how to appropriately approach women out in the wild.

“…I think they [men] can approach women for non sexual conversation… Somehow these fools refuse to recognize that we are humans, with whole lives, that we could talk about without going straight to how ‘insert body part’ is attractive. If they can’t have a respectful conversation, then please don’t approach.”

Another opinionated comment in the same thread said, “The men who care about not making women uncomfortable don’t talk to us anymore because they think hello is enough to upset us. The men who don’t care if we’re uncomfortable don’t care, they still approach. The wrong men stopped talking to us.”

There are several different theories on why men don’t take this approach anymore. bernardbodo – stock.adobe.com

A recent video of a woman dressed for a night out, openly sharing her frustrations, hoping an eligible guy would chat her up, made its way to X. The clip has gone viral — and caused quite a stir online.

It’s hard to decipher what exactly she’s saying in the video, but it sounds like, “A man better pay attention to me tonight. I’m so f—ing sick of this s–t,” she said in the video. “…it’s very f—ing simple.”

This gave plenty of people an opportunity to chime in with their controversial thoughts on the subject.

“Men aren’t scared. They’re numb. Approaching women, in the past, was a sacred expression of courage, humor, risk, and play. Now? It’s suspect,” one tweet read in response to this woman’s declaration.

“The media has manipulated everyone into perceiving a man approaching a woman in public as taboo,” another person wrote, trying to explain why men are no longer going up to women in public to buy them a drink or get their name.

“They’re cowards,” quipped someone else, clearly blaming men.

“They would just call us creeps,” read another tweet in response.