An Open Letter to the Men of the Millennial Generation
A Note to the Reader: This letter has been a work in progress for years, even though I'm only publicly posting it now. It's derived from the last several years of watching myself and friends navigate dating in a twenty-first century world that has been ravanged by culture wars and the internet; a world where hook-ups are normalized in spite the damage they inflict on both parties; one where online dating is a prevalent norm, but finding real relationships is increasingly difficult; a world that has all at once become feministic at the expense of male confidence but remains tragically misogynistic at the same time; a world in which the prevalence of ways to meet people is much more plentiful and personable, but which has simultaneously become so much more impersonal . Consequentially, our twenty-first century dating climate often seems paradoxically bleak. And I'm just a girl with essentially no real dating past to speak of, and I sincerely have no authority from which to...