No-One likes these kinds of confessions, Men OR Women.

I'm a woman and I've been shot down enough by men over the years that sometimes it's hard to get back up. I get mean looks just for saying hello, too. It's hard to shake.

Women don't owe you anything, and asking them to "just be more open" without trying to understand where they are coming from, and the misogynistic culture we live in, is entitled.

"People keep saying how hard it is to meet women here and I literally can't keep track of the amount of women after me."
@Go Away is right. These sorts of posts are obnoxious. Your "confession" is that you're popular with women when scores of men can't get a single date (or like me have never been on a date). This is like when some Trust Fund baby goes, "I'm doing just fine financially. I simply can't understand all these people whining about the cost of living in Vancouver."

"I get shot down by women a lot as well. For every success there's probably 5 failures."

That's what most men aren't willing to go for---I mean, men watch the same insipid media as women do, tho at least we sort of acknowledge that women are worse off for internalizing "prince charming" narratives. Men think that in real life, you find a girl, you ask her out and that's that, because that's how it is on TV in the movies. Nobody on TV or in the movies asks out six women, gets turned down five times, without being some sort of lecherous bit-player; that's simply not presented as _normal human behavior_.

I cannot recall any movie where a guy asks six women out, ends up with one of them---and, really, it's more like asks 20 out, dates 2 for a while, ends up with a third.

Men are taught the exact same Disney Fantasy crap as women are, it's just that as a society there's no "men's studies" department looking into how television and movies have given men mis-shapen ideas about dating-mating, in that they don't realize it's a numbers game---not about how all men are lecherous pigs, because the fact is that most men are terribly frightened to approach women, because men are trained by that Disney crap to think of women as princesses, rather than as human beings who may or may not be interested in them, and that the only way one can know is to ask.

As a woman, I think your tendency to stereotype men is just as bad as the men stereotyping Vancouver women. Men don't owe you anything either. It's up to everyone to make an effort. If you choose to remain close minded, the situation will not get better for anybody. We need open communication, education and understanding from both sides.

You don't need to get a ton of numbers, you only need one good one.

The sun has no favourites so bragging about dating in Vancouver is like saying the sun shines on you just a little harder.

It's doesn't.

How bright the sun is shining is obviously a function of how dilated your pupils are.

"I own a condo and women approach me". And you are saving up for a second condo? You sir are part of the 1%. Maybe we should study this. Try being a dishwasher and see how many women you attract.