There is a growing trend of objectively beautiful women complaining about the lack of male attention while enjoying a night out with their friends.
Never in history have I heard of women complaining that men weren’t paying enough attention to them. However, after several decades of demonizing men for their advances, it seems men have finally taken the hint and backed off.
There’s a social media trend right now of women posting videos frustrated that men aren’t approaching them romantically. Instead of exploring the reasons behind this shift with curiosity and compassion, many of these posts have a blaming tone “What’s WRONG with men?”
Maybe…
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“It’s difficult being this hot,” a model from North Carolina told Jam Press, according to the New York Post. “Men think I’m too beautiful to date or worry that I’ll turn them down.” She claims men just don’t know how to approach beautiful women anymore.
While she is right about the feeling that men don’t know how to approach women like her anymore, her conclusion that it’s because they’ll face rejection is a crooked half-truth that doesn’t analyze the real fear men have when “hitting” on the opposite sex. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)
Rejection is likely the least of their fears. In fact, if you polled single men, they would probably take a polite rebuff over what’s actually at stake when they get the courage to talk to women.
Why are so few young men approaching girls now?
Massive shift underway where you have 8-9s yearning to be chatted up.
They get dressed up to go out, but all for nothing. pic.twitter.com/bThydjh0rF
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When men notice a pretty woman across the room, the old calculation was: Am I in her league? Can I come up with a creative enough opening line to get her attention? But now they have to worry about whether or not they’ll be labeled as creepy for even approaching, or worse, get labeled as a sex predator and be added to the #MeToo list for simply paying her a compliment.
Men are in a lose-lose situation. Our society demonizes their inherent masculinity as toxic the moment they enter this world. Their gaze is looked at as menacing. What used to be considered a sign of the relationship between men and women is now looked at as dangerous. (ROOKE: More Young Men Need To Deploy ‘Princess Treatment’ Hack)
Our culture needs an overhaul that allows men the freedom to confidently approach a beautiful woman in the wild (not through their phone’s dating app). But maybe now that hot women are complaining about the lack of male attention, there will be a change.
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