It's clearly Gen Z's turn to have endless articles written about them just existing as it feels natural to them.
Millennials, we can kick up our feet. No longer are we "destroying the housing market" or whatever bullshit the rich felt like blaming on us.
"Oh no! Young people have higher standards and might end up waiting until they're more mature to start dating! Whatever shall we do?"
Read the first few paragraphs. Everything in there is fairly reasonable. Many of the things on the "ick list" are big red flags that any reasonable person should avoid.
So very reasonable...
Did we even read the same opening paragraph?
Not sure we read the same paragraph cause pretty much all of these are reasonable.
Most of these seem like something someone they'd met previously did which led to greater issues down the road. They don't want to deal with it again so they've identified some early warning signs to help them navigate in an analytical fashion. Besides, at least this case is operating on a "3 strike basis" so if you have a steady job and just moonlight as a failed DJ you still have a chance.
You are reaching so hard there with those excuses.
Neither of us know the background that led to any of these being added to their ick list. I provided reasons why those might be on the list.
When you are seeking a partner it's completely natural to find someone with shared interests, cleanliness expectations, and socioeconomic and religious backgrounds. That's all the list is.
And yeah, religion is a personal choice, but if that doesn't mesh with your partner there's gonna be trouble and "saving yourself for marriage" is a conservative religious take. Maybe they just wanted to have sex before marriage and the other person was incompatible, or maybe they didn't want to be in a hierarchical relationship with the expectation that they be submissive to their partners whims and recognized that their partner's "saving themselves for marriage" was an early indicator of that regressive behavior. Either way it's an incompatibility that was recognized and added to the list.
I can't believe being a failed DJ made your list of unreasonable red lines.
It's not? Those are examples listed in the article.
That you are highlighting as unreasonable right? That's the whole point of that comment. Clearly.
Having standards is good, but ….
the checklist on her Notes app that she references whenever she starts seeing someone new.
Reducing the real world to a dating app? Ick
The Notes app is where you can write notes like a journal it's not a dating app.
I was comparing keeping a checklist of shallow attributes to “swipe left” on a date in real life, to a dating app.
Trying to distill your likes down to a checklist is missing out on the reality of whether you’re compatible.
That article was so full of buzz words I found it basically illegible. However this part did tickle me a bit:
The Cut recently surveyed 100 men and found many were cutting women off for their own icks: “because she was a picky eater, she was too into Burning Man, she didn’t like the book Nickel and Dimed, she deleted his ex’s profile from his Nintendo Switch,” EJ Dickson reported.
23 year old? Yeah, I was probably this stupid as a 23 year old. This is nothing new. Fun article to read and will probably continue to amplify the idea of a male only loneliness epidemic that only seems to exist online. Young folks I meet in real life are quite normal and quirky.
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