Men don’t have the dating options that women have.

With a few exceptions, men don’t generally get approached by women.

Many men who have approached women in real life have been rejected.

For men who have a hard time of it on dating apps, they keep using them, believing they have no better options.

Rejection on dating apps is not as brutal as rejection from a woman at a bar, nightclub, party, mall, wedding, etc.

Though men complain about how bad they have it on dating apps, they know that meeting women in real life and getting said women to go out on a date, has had greater drawbacks.

Not only is rejection easier to swallow on dating apps, it isn’t public.

A good number of men have felt embarrassed when rejected by a woman in public.

On dating apps, there is no one to see him get rejected.

This gives him plausible deniability.

No one need know that every match he received this week either didn’t respond to his messages or fell off in conversation soon after the first few message exchanges occurred.

Many men have convinced themselves that dating apps are their only avenue to meeting women.

Most of these men had bad experiences in real life.

Women they met at bars, nightclubs, malls, etc., weren’t receptive to their approach.

This is for the few who have the courage to approach a woman in real life.

A larger degree of men don’t have this courage.

They hear stories of rejection from the few who have approached women and tell themselves they aren’t putting themselves through that.

They turn to dating apps.

Weeks later, they complain to everyone, from their closest friends to their dogs about how bad online dating is for men and swear they are deleting all their accounts on dating apps.

The next day, their fingers are still swiping on numerous dating profiles, praying they get lucky.

Men don’t want to face rejection from women in real life venues, and the few men who have approached women in real life and gotten rejected, don’t want to go through that again.

Like a tribe of zombies, they sign up on dating apps and convince themselves there is no other way to meet women.

Given the volume of women on dating apps, these men hope that they get lucky one day.

After months of relentless swiping, they hang on to the hope that an attractive woman finally gives them a shot.

These men are delusional.

They are looking for women on dating apps they would never attract in real life.

Every guy wants the girl that looks like a supermodel.

Dating apps give these men an elevated opinion of their own sexual appeal.

They swipe on gorgeous women, match with some, and are disappointed when they don’t receive a response.

Gorgeous women on dating apps receive messages from innumerable men.

He is only one of a bevy of them.

She has her hands full and has her choice of who she deems worthy to respond to.

This doesn’t change the fact that he is annoyed when she ignores him.

A preponderance of men are deluded in believing they deserve a woman that looks like a supermodel.

They never attracted this caliber of women in real life.

This misconception keeps these men on dating apps, irrespective of how bad it is for them.

Their philosophy?

As long as they keep swiping relentlessly, they’ll get lucky.

After months or years with no luck, some of these men have an epiphany.

They stop chasing the supermodel, accepting that she is out of their league.

They match with an equal and settle.

Online dating is strangely representative of the real world.

In the real world, the majority of people end up partnering up with their equal.

Once these men on dating apps come to terms with the truth that the same rules apply in the digital world, the complaining ends.