The 'science of dating' and why it should make you angry

A point where being distant, detached, and disinterested is so cool now? The ones we hate are the ones like Taylor Swift, who try a little too hard and care a little too much.

But even the acquaintances we aspire to be are the ones who treat people like whispers in the wind. Was there always a game? Maybe without phones there was a game, too. It was my understanding that if you want to talk to someone, you talk to them when you want and how you want. But perhaps I misunderstood. Maybe liking and loving have always been about strategy. Why do I have to calculate when to send a text? Why do I have to calculate what to say to get some sort of reaction out of the person?

If I thought about them, am I "bullshit" allowed to talk to them? Calling them makes me the crazy one, the clingy one, the uncool one. God forbid you go on a date. At this point, dates are completely null and void. Yeah I hung out with her. Yeah I chilled with him.

Oh cute! So do you like her? Do you like him? Honestly, stop with the bullshit. Stop fucking lying. You like each other and you can admit it. Get serious with somebody because you like them? Am I right or am I right? What is so damn hard about committing? Humans have always needed validation — through writing, through art, through music — some sort of sign that other people feel dating think as you do. But what do you have to lose? Do you have something left to match.com tips to somebody?

It will hurt, but now you can move on — clean and easy. Say what dating dating milwaukee. You literally have nothing to lose whatsoever.

Life is way too short to wonder. I want us as a society to care about each other again. More so than that bullshit I know people fucking care — I want people to show that they care. So fuck this. Fuck timing. Fuck games. Fuck the patriarchy. Fuck texting.

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