Alana as a Feminist I’m sure you can sympathise with my dismay at being told my body is of low value — but upon recovering from my butthurt over your dick bashing I realised you had revealed something revolutionary to me. Dick is abundant and of low value. The Economics in me sees it clearly. I am being undercut by the market.
After a month of having tinder the number of times in my life I have heard a line akin to “But I don’t want to risk our friendship” or “I wish I could date someone like you” exceeds the number of return messages I have received on Tinder by an order of magnitude.
For a significant portion of my life I have disdained masculine and misogynistic culture. A particular subject of my ire has been the volatility of the “dating market.” In nearly every case in my life where someone has been interested in me I was to some degree invested in someone else. I abhorred the “pursue all leads” mentality. Now I it is not only the norm but a necessity, the dominate strategy, employed ruthlessly by both sexes.
In every interaction I have had with women I have respected them, encouraged them, and shown interest in their passions rather than their bodies. My naivety has been astonishing. In the past months I have learned that by not explicitly signaling that my dick was abundant and of low value each and one of my potential “customers” assumed I was not interested in them — and quickly fled to cheaper alternatives.
Life is rough as a commodity.