My housemate's friend last night went on for a while about how the old days weren't all bad (admitting that racism "was" bad, but complaining that people still bring it up) because he's afraid he'll get arrested for hitting on women. Like, he thinks that if they aren't interested (which they supposedly won't, because he doesn't have biceps (he's completely average!)) then they're likely to accuse him of harassment.
It got a bit less awkward once my housemate showed up, and we tried to explain that very few women are actually like that. Was pretty uncomfortable though. It also turned out that the specific context was a pair of very sexy young women he'd seen at the mall. He was supposedly complaining about women in general, but he was *actually* complaining that he didn't think these super-hot women would go for him.
Our advice was basically to practice chatting with women. Maybe, like, not with courtship as the only goal. Meeting people's a good skill, and sometimes sparks fly after that initial contact.
Inb4 he does
this, of course. I just mean making smalltalk, reading body language, *then* maybe asking for a date.
But eh I haven't dated in years so I'm talking out my butt. I just kinda like chatting with strangers then never seeing them again, occasionally. I think I'm ready to date, but I'll be looking for LGBT people which is apparently less busywork.