rant · moment 4 of 27
Dating Podcasts and the Desperate Search for a Husband
from 157 - Cancel Your Family · #157
2 min
Tim riffs on the booming genre of dating podcasts aimed at a certain type of woman obsessed with finding a man, and contrasts it with his own detachment from dating and family approval.
- Tim observes that Manhattan residents are oblivious to how bad things have gotten, standing in the wealthiest city while people miles away live in tents eating each other's flesh.
- A certain type of woman—cushy life, lives in a major city, maybe celebrates Hanukkah—has one real challenge: finding a guy to have sex with and trap into marriage.
- Her entire existence from sexual awakening until she traps a poor loser is about stalking and finding him, which requires podcasts to break down every millisecond of interaction.
- Dating podcasts succeed by probing the exact details: when do you text, what do you text, what happens when you meet the guy—every step obsessed over.
- Someone calls Tim out for paying for sex in hotel rooms, so he doesn't understand why dating and family approval actually matter.