Dear men online,
I am personally thanking you for never responding to my messages. You have helped me to finally prove a point to my mother. It honestly doesn't matter how much I put myself out there because I've tried and you can see the evidence of my attempts in my empty inbox. For years, whenever the topic of dating and marriage came up my mother would always go to her default "well if you would just put yourself out there more then you would actually meet guys" and for years I would try to explain that that is not the issue. The issue is that all the men I know or meet online are either not interested in me or they don't want to date at all. They just want casual sex and no commitment and I'm not offering that.
So thank you you've saved me the task of weeding through all the assholes out there by doing it for me and you've saved me from further lectures about changing who I am so guys will want to be with me. And by changing who I am I mean being more outgoing and extroverted when in reality I am an introvert and I see no point in small talk or meaningless conversations so I don't often put myself out there. I am also painfully shy on top of being an introvert which is a terrible combination but I like it.
