The much higher social cost of a misstep + everyone has a camera in their pocket are to blame for the decline: bsky.app/profile/midn...
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Even if you successfully ask your coworker out for dinner and they are happy to be asked and interested, there is a risk someone else saw and is not happy. Risk reward ratio means this never happens anymore.
sep 2, 2025, 3:17 pm • 3 0 • view
And the cost of rejection has gone from "feels embarrassed" to "maybe gets fired". Pretty big change.
sep 2, 2025, 3:22 pm • 6 0 • view
It's why almost all dating has moved to apps. Those are the one and only place where you have absolute consent to flirt.
sep 2, 2025, 3:27 pm • 4 0 • view
Workplace relationships are always a bad choice. But, you're right. The dynamic has definitely changed. Feels like the men are more brutish and women respond as one would expect. If I were young and facing today's dating environment, I think I would just stay home and watch porn.
sep 2, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Again I am not supporting work place harassment. But also Americans need to loosen up a bit.
sep 2, 2025, 3:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I got written up by a receptionist in an outpatient clinic because as a patient was leaving, they said “I’m really looking forward to Friday” and I said “go get them tiger and they thought I was “fraternizing”. Patient had just got a viagra rx from me & had weekend plans with his GF of 3 mo.
sep 2, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view