Men and Women’s Virtual Failure to Communicate
Men and women struggling IRL to communicate with each other is a fait accompli. Yet what’s lost in translation IRL is but a tiny fraction of online communication breakdown — especially when the conversation is within the online dating platforms — what I call virtual dating. There is no word I can think of to aptly describe what transpires there, yet I can approximate that it does not bode well for — shall we — say romantic aspirations.
There are a number of reasons for this Babylonian dilemma — a problem appears to be immutable, or rather insurmountable. Both men, women, and the dating platforms themselves are blameful for creating a demoralizing and relentlessly tedious atmosphere that does little to facilitate happy and life reaffirming social transactions, rather it tends to alienate people and engender hostility between them.
‘Ghosting is a survival tactic of the passive-aggressive invertebrate that is primarily native to social media and dating platforms.
Men and women have a hard enough time making sense of one another IRL. If we take into account what Oscar Wilde observed — that “most people are boring and stupid,” we begin to better comprehend the dynamics of men and women boring and…
