Matt Walsh
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But if I could snap my fingers and just make it so that none of this stuff exists, I wouldn't snap my fingers and make it so that it never existed because then I never would have gotten married.
But if I could now make it so that it doesn't exist, I think I would.
I think it'd be better for everybody.
One of the things that it does, like when you're before the... This has been one of my criticisms of...
dating apps, especially the way they work now.
Because, you know, back 15 years ago, you meet somebody online, I talked about this, like eHarmony, you fill out a
long questionnaire.
You had to put a lot of time and effort into it.
And then when you were going through on the site, you'd go to somebody's profile and you'd see all this information about them and you'd see the picture.
What you didn't have back in the dark ages was the app on your phone where you're just swiping and you're making determinations based on nothing but really write the picture.
Um, and that's what you have now.
And so there are, it's just people are making determinations visually really quickly, which for women in particular is not natural.
Women are not as visual as men, but the dating market has sort of reprogrammed women's brains so that they're making determinations on, um, a potential mate based on a visual, a quick visual examination.
which as I said during that video, it's like, if you're a guy and you're not strikingly handsome, if you're an ugly ogre like me,
Well, it puts you at a disadvantage because in the past it's like, well, maybe you have that.
That's the downside.
But before the advent of dating apps, all you're going to do is meet women in the real world.
And so then you have a chance to compensate for the looks department by if you're smart, if you're funny, if you've got a good personality, whatever, if you're charismatic.
Other things that kind of factor in right away, but
When you're making these quick determinations based on the little thing you see on the phone, none of that, you don't get a chance.