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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Older men in this town are terrible about approaching a woman organically, in-person, to strike up a conversation and ask her out.  I think it is the traditional, conservative mentality coupled with admirable politically correct sensibilities, and a pinch of very fragile egos. [b][Women of all ages hate, hate, hate rejection and are invariably enraged if a man rejects them, but men have the fragile egos.  :roll:  :roll:  :roll: ][/b]  As a result most older men survey women from behind the safety and relative anonymity of a computer screen and those of us who choose not to participate in techno dating are rarely, if ever, engaged IRL.  I am a fit, attractive, intelligent woman (50), and I receive many admiring looks and casual conversation from older men (particularly silver foxes in their late 50s-early 60s), but no one asks me out.  In general, a woman is not offended if you politely ask her out to coffee, or at least it will not offend me.  Take a chance and approach a woman you like, old school style.[/quote]

I am a divorced man in my 50s, and I do online dating, and I see plenty of profiles of fit, attractive, educated women of 50. If you "choose not to participate in techno dating" then that's on you. Somehow these other ladies managed to get over whatever qualms they had about "techno dating".

It is true that online dating provides "safety and anonymity". From a male perspective, I'll tell you the downside, which is that you are competing with a high level of "noise" (she is getting hundreds of messages from other men) and an [i]extremely low response rate[/i] (you contact lots of women and very few of them choose to respond).[/quote]

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