I feel for you brother, let me tell you, the window is closing fast for the NORMAL man everywhere Don't put yourself down, you look Ok dude.
It is infuriating that now more and more you are considered a 'loser' if you don't go for tatoos and/or ear gauges and other stupid behavior.
Thank you for the kind words.
It does seem like the world is closing in on men. Especially men who don't have male model looks.
Why is this happening?
Is it because women are overexposed to the Hollywood hunks on TV and Internet?
As for tattoos, you are absolutely right that you are considered a loser or a weak man if you refuse to get them.
I think that the modern world has an obsession with hypermasculinity.
Everyone says that MIllennial men are less masculine than men in the previous generations and that modern men have lower testosterone. My own observations tell me otherwise. It seems like the current generation of men obsessed with muscles, tattoos, and rap music are much more masculine than say the Boomer men, many of the latter were effeminate hippies.
Quit your bitching and act like a man. You can't change your face
Retiredfrank, your generation had much better dating conditions for men. Women were not so picky about men's looks. Men's looks were not such a crucial factor. Also, what was considered good-looking for a man was not set so ridiculously high. Becoming a good-looking man was more achievable for a man in your generation. The male celebrities of your day (Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, Robert DeNiro, etc..) were more easy to emulate and associate with than today's male celebrities.
Also, men in your generation were much more feminine than my peers.
Yes, women always desired a good-looking man or a bad boy deep down inside. But being a hot stud was never an absolute requirement until recently. Today, more men in their 20s than women in their 20s get plastic surgery. Retiredfrank, just think how ridiculous it would have been in your time if young men would have wanted to get plastic surgery. But today, men are slaving away at the gym, using steroids, and surgically altering their appearance just for a slight chance to sleep with a normal looking women. I am sure that back in your time men were not required to go to such lengths. Yes, women always preferred men who were tall, muscled, chiseled, etc, but there is a difference between preference and absolute requirement set in stone.
Retiredfrank, before you scold me again and give me the same "man up" misandrist arguments any further, look at pictures of couples in your generation.
http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... les-9a.jpg
http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/ ... ples-2.jpg
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https://mildredmoss.files.wordpress.com ... _400_1.jpg
Feminine attractive women dating equal feminine but unattractive men. Women could forgive about looks so much more back then.
Compare the total lack of masculinity for Boomers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVg2EJvvlF8 with the cartoon hypermasculinity of Millennials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsO6ZnUZI0g. The famous mangina in the first video is one extreme and the total caricature of a testosteronal man in the second video the other extreme. In my opinion, both extremes are bad. A normal man should be somewhere in between by masculinity.
You call yourself short at 5'10?! That's the national average in the US. I'm about 5'5 maybe 5'6 with the right shoes. What are my chances? I should probably just jump off a bridge at this point.
European men are one-two inches taller, and the Millennial European are even taller. The average European Millennial is about 6'1-6'2, if not more. Also, if the women require the man to be over 6'1, then it doesn't matter if your height is 5'5 or 5'10. Both are too short to generate the woman's attraction. We both fall short of the required height, and it now doesn't matter by how much. If a job requires your college GPA to be 3.5, it doesn't matter if your college GPA is 3.0 or 2.5. You will not the job either way. But this is even worse, because college GPA depends on your hard work, disciple, and intelligence, something within your control. But height is beyond your control. Guts, I feel for you, and even though I am taller, I am in the same ship as you.
On the subject of height, what about guys who are say, taller than 6'1"? Do they do better in EE, all else being equal?
In the Eastern Europe of 2016, height is necessary, but not sufficient to be sexually successful. I know that my trip report was very long, but I listed several examples where tall and good-looking men who have trouble getting laid in today's Prague. They fall slightly short of the Hollywood hunk look, so Prague girls are passing them for male models. Because they fall slightly short of the standard, it's just the same as with college GPA example I mentioned earlier.
Ironically, height did not matter at all in Eastern Europe as late as 2014. That was when the "busted dudes test" still applied in those countries. Even two years ago, a 5'6 poorly dressed nerdy man with a beautiful woman was still a common sight in Eastern Europe. Not anymore.
What angers me the most is that Eastern European women did not have such ridiculous standards just a few years ago. Had I gone to Eastern Europe as late as 2013, I would have been able to date and sleep with decent looking women easily. Also, as late as 2013, Eastern Europeans told me that I have decent looks, above average. Now, just 2.5 years later, I am considered below average in looks in these same cultures. My looks did not change, I did not become uglier between now and then, but in the eyes of women I went from above average looks to below average looks. The steady diet of Hollywood hunks changed the women's attraction patterns in a very short time span. I am just so frustrated that I came to Eastern Europe just a couple of years too late.
When I was planning my trip last summer, I looked at this forum and at Roosh V forum for tips to assess the dating climate. I was aware that the dating scene was in decline for men everywhere in the world. But I couldn't imagine in my wildest dreams that it would decline that fast. In 2015, I assessed that Eastern European women would still be an option for 5 yeas, Latin American women would still be an option for 10 years, and Asian women would still be an option for another 15-20 years. It looks like the typhoon of Hollywood hunks swept off Eastern European and Latin American women as an option in mere months. I just still don't get how the dating scenes in these regions aligned with the American dating scene so quickly? One would think that years of intense and steady social change would be required to change a country from a dating paradise for men to a complete dating hell for men. But this happened in months! Also, we all know that women were less visual than men less than a generation ago. It used to be men who cared about looks of their partners, not the women. But today, women are more visual than men have ever been in human history. Is it really due to the media bombardment of women with Hollywood hunks? One would think that it would take at least a century of intense and steady social change to reprogram women to be attracted only to hypemasculine male models. But this happened in about half a generation! How did the women's attraction become rewired so fast? Can someone here explain....
So, with my looks and with the current dating scene, is the Philippines the only option for me?