Gen Z says they want to meet people the old-fashioned way but doesn't actually approach anyone. Run clubs have tons of members but zero couples. The speaker argues younger men lack the rejection resilience and opening lines needed to confidently talk to women.
This is a big issue in modern dating. Almost everyone I talk to is like, I want to meet someone the old-fashioned way, I'm romantic, I don't want to meet someone on the app. But then if you ask them if they're meeting people in real life, they basically say no. And last summer there was like the run clubs, everyone's meeting at run clubs. Like, I haven't met a single couple that met through the run club. So we're having this issue with Gen Z where they don't necessarily want to be on apps, they want to be meeting people in real life, but they don't have the social skills to do it. And so there's this huge problem with the younger daters that I talk to where they lack rejection resilience. Yes, if everyone listened to this, got really good at approaching women and making them feel both comfortable and flattered and had a good opening line, like, bring on the babies, that would be great. But people are lacking the social skills right now to do that.
