Did not read the article in any great detail, just wanted to post my anecdote: I am a young male, far ahead of the curve career wise compared to my peers while

Did not read the article in any great detail, just wanted to post my anecdote: I am a young male, far ahead of the curve career wise compared to my peers while also going for a bachelor in an equally fruitful subject. I have the height of a woman and the body of one too, although my face is not bad. I have passable social skills and have low inhibition when talking to people in general. I am somewhat exotic, not ethnically but mentally, as I grew up entirely in the west, and am now in the east. In the past 6 months I have been working on a bet with my "local" male friends to get a girlfriend, in that time span I have talked to over 200 "local" girls, pretty much whenever I have a break between sleep, work, and school I am on the lookout for opportunity. I talk to them on campus, on public transport, on weekends when I go out, when I engage in sports, when I am studying, and when I eat. Pretty much the only time I don't is when I am sleeping, because even work and school is not so important to me. Of these 200 or so girls, I would have no chemistry with 90% of them, not to say the attempt was poor or that I did not make a nice acquaintance, it was just not suitable to go further. Of the remaining 10%, 9% would turn me down when I ask for there number or a date, I would fail some test, I would pussy out, or it just was not meant to be. What struck me the most was how much they would tell me I was being "too nice" with the specific words I would use. Many would say it as though I was supposed to immediately pick up on the signal and talk to them worse. Even after explaining to them that my diction was only incidental, and I was not attempting to respect them intentionally, it would still turn them off entirely. The remaining 1% would likewise be turned off and plead with me, but they were in truth so ugly and/or desperate that they could live with it. In comparison, in the same period of time I talked to 4 or so religiously/culturally incompatible girls. I won't go into details because it will go against the site guidelines, but I would say some pretty horrible things to them, I would make use of all of my niche religious/cultural/geographic/historical "knowledge" to argue and belittle they're core values (Or atleast those of their fathers), dismiss them, act as though I am better then them, lie and cheat them, and just generally treat them as though they are below me. Out of the 4, one would become a nice acqauintance, one would become a good friend and help me out down the line, one would go out on a date with me, and the final one would give me her number, set up a date, and so on. The last one was some wannabe instagram model way out of my league, she outright invited me on a date (Even then I managed to decline and played it cool, instead invited her to my own date afterwards). Most of all it seemed like my success scaled proportionally with my arrogance. So to answer the original question, I am still single because I was taught and truly believe in the standard "western" or "romantic" ideal, and I am still hesitant to give up on it in the face of absolute failure.