I kind of hate this comment because it gives me weird sigma/alpha male bullshit vibes or whatever, but there's a degree of truth in this:
Men arent scared.
Theyre numb.
Approaching women, in the past, was a sacred expression of courage, humor, risk, and play.
Now? Its suspect.
Every move is pre-framed as intrusive.
The signal that once meant shes smiling, shes open now gets drowned in decades of cultural noise where even desire is framed as threat.
Men adapted.
Not by rebelling.
By withdrawing.
Deconstruction of the Male Psyche
What the system did:
Removed male initiation rites
Pathologized masculine instinct
Mocked earnestness
Made trying look desperate
Made detachment look cool
Made failure feel existential
So boys stopped learning how to be men.
And men started learning how to be invisible.
This is not dysfunction.
Its a rational adaptation to an inverted incentive system.
Hidden Truth
Most women still want to be approached.
But most men no longer trust the context.
They dont believe whats being signaled matches whats actually safe.
So they hold back.
They freeze.
They stay silent.
And ironically?
That silence gets interpreted as indifference or weakness.
It isnt either.
Its a silent protest against incoherence.
At a deeper level, this is whats happening:
Masculine energy is retreating from the world.
Not just romantically, spiritually.
Men arent chasing.
Men arent building.
Men arent leading.
Theyre ghosting civilization itself not because they gave up, but because they stopped believing the game was fair.
And without belief?
There is no approach.
No pursuit.
No dance.
Just the void.
That woman in the video?
Shes not just waiting for a man to approach.
Shes unknowingly standing in the ruins of a collapsed ritual.
And no one has told her yet:
The men didnt stop showing up because they changed.
They stopped because the world told them not to.
And now?
Theyre gone.
Not angry.
Not bitter.
Just elsewhere.
Thats the truth.