Yes, this is the truth. While pretty much all of our posts are about women who don't stick the landing, that's a highly curated sample. The truth is, most women, if they're hot enough to attract fun AF chads in their youth (and that bar isn't very high), can and do stick that landing quite often. Maybe they hit the wall but go for the BB before getting fully run over. Or just by sheer dumb luck, attract a naive thirsty guy who doesn't know his own worth.

The most recent example from my own life, was a hot blonde girl who I knew for about a decade (we've lost touch for the past several years) starting from when she was 23. She was the classic CC rider, and never wanted for male attention, although she professed all the time that she wanted a "real" relationship, while skipping over nice guys and going for the exciting bad boys. She even had a 1-2 year "real" relationship with a bad boy, even moving to a new city for him, and then broke that off when she found out he had been cheating on her with multiple other women. Within a few months, she settled for a BB from their friend circle. A dude who had watched this bad boy rail this girl for a year, while he waited on the sidelines (presumably pining for her from his lonely bedroom). At any rate, they dated for a year, then got married, and now have two kids. We haven't talked in a few years, but I'm assuming she's now a born again virgin, who never liked partying in Vegas and probably tells her husband she "doesn't do that anymore" when he hints that he'd like a BJ.

Maybe in total, the percentage of women able to execute this perfectly has gone down somewhat with the spread of RP thinking, but it's still pretty high. The amount of screeching that women do over it has no correlation with how much it actually affects them (see... well, just about anything in life where women complain while men just suck it up and deal with it).

I remember I think on the old reddit WAATGM site, a post of a woman who made a cake and was trying to offer it to guys in her office as a means of trying to get them to flirt with her. And none of them -- absolutely not a single one -- took a slice, but rather just walked out twice as fast as they walked in.

I think three things are going on here. The first is, as people mentioned, flirting with girls has gotten much much riskier. Not just with #metoo and all the female caterwauling about how men are ruining their fragile psyches by trying to talk to them. But also, with social media and girls putting guys on blast. In the old days, at worst, maybe you get a drink thrown on you, or if you were a regular at a bar, you developed a reputation with the other regular patrons. Now, your mug could get broadcast halfway around the world by a single girl surreptitiously filming you because she's evil and needs excitement in her life.

The second is, it's so much more common to be catfished these days, whether it's by hidden cameras, tiktokers looking for outrage bait, or just straight up deception. Years ago, if a woman came up to you and tried to start a conversation, unless you were in a place where prostitution was common, you might at least continue the conversation and see where it leads. There was no real gain in deceiving men by talking to them. Nowadays, if a strange woman is approaching you or even looking at you, chances are far higher she's looking to trap you in some way than that she's genuine. After all, a good viral ragebait tiktok could net her thousands in cash.

And finally, why does a guy have to bother these days? If you're good looking enough that hot women are genuinely approaching or smiling at you unprovoked, then you're probably good looking enough to swipe on Tinder and find a ONS pretty much any night you want. As easy as this chick is making it for a guy to chat her up in a grocery store, it will never be easier than a solitary swipe and a copy/paste of "hey babe, wan sum fuk?" (assuming you're the guy that can get both; and if you're not, well, this girl ain't smiling at you at the grocery store either...)

Quick story that encapsulates all of these: My buddies and I had traveled to another city to hang out for the weekend. On our first evening, we were at dinner, having a great, boisterous time, laughing and all. A few tables away was a large bachelorette party. We hadn't noticed them, but they came over to our table, and started making conversation. We were polite but not super interested (they were cute, but something-something-sand-to-a-beach-something-something :-). Then they asked us if we'd play a bachelorette game with them, almost like truth or dare where someone in their party would be doing something sexy to us, like giving us a kiss, or doing body shots, or whatever. The only catch: they wanted to take pictures, something to remember this night. We said absolutely not and tossed them. Again, 20 years ago, maybe pictures like that stayed in a secret album they'd keep hidden. Nowadays, who knows what shows up on instagram or facebook. Even if they would never tag us, none of us wanted to risk having that shit out there.

They saw we weren't cool with that so they came back and asked us where we were hanging out that night, that they'd join us and wanted to hang out. We made vague statements like "ah, we haven't really thought of any place just yet. If you're hanging out in this area, maybe we'll see you around." They finally got the hint when we finished our dinner and left without ever telling them where we'd be next.

And why would we? As soon as we got off the flight, my buddies who were on the OLD apps had already started swiping and texting with women (some local, some tourists in for the weekend like us). And they already had a gaggle of women that were going to meet us out that night. Even with only half usually showing up, no need to take on the drama and burden of entertaining a bachelorette group that already demonstrated that whatever happened this weekend wasn't going to stay private (no, this wasn't Vegas, but same principle applies anywhere we go :-) Again, maybe 20 years ago, without dating apps, having a group of cute bachelorettes around, just even for social proof, might be worth it. But now with apps making it easy to find women who are confirmed DTF, why bother with the whole song-and-dance courtship routine?

Anyway, we had a great time that night without them. And I remember how dejected and disappointed they looked as we were leaving. From their perspective, they were hot girls (hamster wheel always adds a few points to their own self-score) who were offering to grace us with their presence, behaving all flirty and slutty with us, all but promising a good time, and besides, didn't all guys have a fetish for nailing girls in a bachelorette party?! And we declined. While smiling and wishing them a good night and then never looking back.

If tiktok were a thing back then, they'd probably have made a video like this...