I. Introduction: Welcome to the Gray Zone
Let's be honest with each other right now. Dating in the 2020s is absolutely exhausting. Not the kind of exhausting where you need a nap. The kind where you want to throw your phone into a river, delete every app, and move to a cabin in the woods with only a dog for company. Between the dopamine slot machine of dating apps, the normalization of...
Act I: The Pragmatic Bro
I never worked the door at a college bar. I always got carded — even when I was older. Some nights, depending on what I wore, I got right in. Other nights, I stood outside waiting for friends who were "five minutes away" (forty-five minutes ago), passing the time, people-watching with a phone at 2% battery. Same movie played out night after night.
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