Alimony delinquency is not a trivial problem in this country when men excercise the option to leave their responsibilities at the state line.

On a sidenote, this is yet another problem that Bitcoin will solve for us.

Of course, I mean the problem that bank accounts and income streams can be garnished.

So many men are going benefit from the ability to hold their savings and earn income in a currency which no judge can remotely confiscate.

As a short guy how much it sucks to try and date. I'm lucky in that I'm quite tall but man, are women stuck on height. Most women will NOT date a man shorter than them. It is a deal breaker to them for whatever reason. They also seem to feel it is perfectly reasonable, and not just very shallow.

It really sucks for short guys because at least with looks you can generally do something. While you can't change your looks radically you can lose weight, work out, wear better clothes, etc and improve your looks at least somewhat. Also cosmetic surgery is a more drastic approach that can modify some things. There's fuck-all you can do about height though. You are 5'1"? That's what you are.

Women like to think they aren't shallow, and of course some really aren't (as some men aren't) but most are they just lie to themselves about it. One of the issues is that women tend to have a skewed view of men. They believe most men are below average. OKCupid did an interesting study on this. Men rated women's pictures on a bell curve of attractiveness, as one would expect. Women rated most men below average. So what you get is a lot of women who believe they've "settled" for a below average guy and thus aren't caring about looks, when in reality they've "settled" for an average or above average guy and just haven't gotten a hunk.

You are an exception (I'm presuming you are female). Most women do not wish to initiate a relationship. Part of it is cultural that historically in western (and most other) cultures men pursued women and that carries over to today. However part of it, no small part from the women I've discussed it with, is emotional. You take the emotional risk when you initiate a relationship, when you ask the other person to date you. If they say you, then you have been rejected, which nobody likes. Many women would prefer not to do that, they'd rather be the ones who get to do the rejecting.

Hence we have a setup online where men send tons of messages, because if they don't they don't get a response, and most women send none.

If you are different that is wonderful and I applaud you. However recognize you are by far in the minority.

You could be right, though at the time, it didn't seem like age made much difference. What I mean is, that men my age were just as off-putting as younger ones. But, perhaps I don't understand what you mean.

If I were in the same situation these days I would probably try, "It's Just Lunch", or something like that.

It has been tried. A dating site was made where only women could initiate contact. The result? It went nowhere because women wouldn't initiate contact in almost any case. Men couldn't women wouldn't, so it didn't go anywhere.

The thing is not only do we have a cultural bias that men are supposed to initiate relationships, but the person who initiates puts their emotions on the line, sets themselves up for rejection. Women do not wish to do that by and large, and do not need to since men are very willing to initiate so they just don't.

Unless we are able to change that, such a site will go nowhere. The vast majority of women will just be unwilling to initiate a relationship and thus the site will wither and die.