So much for online dating:

So like, I got dumped yesterday after two dates by this gal who felt that my request that hey, maybe she try texting hi to me (there's a one button macro for that too so it's really not that difficult these days) oh I dunno, maybe once or twice a week or every other, or initiating at least SOME of our conversations so that it wasn't always me having to start all of them was simply too hard and too unreasonable or downright mean to ask of her.

This is the second person I've come across who seems to think relationships just magically happen and you don't have to put any work into them. 
You know, anybody who acts like having to actually talk to the other person is a stupid big pain in the ass probably shouldn't be trying to find people to go out with though. I don't get these people.

So evidently having a backbone = mean/forceful.  Wow... um, I don't know... quite what to say on that one.  I'm a goddamned aspie and even I'm underwhelmed by the major lack of social skills demonstrated.

So far I have (highlight reel):

Met a woman who spent the entire date on her phone texting other people and minding sports scores while only half paying slight attention to what was going on around her in the restaurant,
Met a girl who despite expressing insecurities about her own personal appearance said I was the insecure one for asking how come it seemed like I had to do all the work through having to initiate/carry through every conversation we had... and explained to me she would rather watch old television reruns in her house by herself all day than ever hang out or meet in person (over the course of through several conversations this became apparent),
Met somebody whose idea of a good first date was: Hey, can you help me move all my furniture out of my old apartment and into my new one (that was so far out of left field I actually halfway considered taking her up on it, what's more I think since the second one was probably smaller she would have maybe let me keep a few of the more kitschy pieces for the trouble)?,
and
  Met someone who chickened out halfway through setting up an actual date then kept making weird excuses and half-assed yet earnest seeming reschedulings that threw me off for about a week or two and ultimately somehow made me out to be the bad guy for asking what was up (would it seriously kill people to flat out say in the beginning if they are really not that interested? Seems faking it is rather rude in hindsight).

Great job humanity, if this is the direction things are going we're going to... Really go places as a civilization. Sheesh.

Offline I have (blooper reel):
Met and gone out/steady for awhile with a physically abusive first-gen child of immigrants young lady who didn't get that marriage simply wasn't a thing you could force onto a guy in America (who also faked a pregnancy wow),

and
Gone out with a verbally abusive woman who somehow thought getting me to give up everything I enjoyed as part of a harebrained scheme to convert me to her fire and brimstone variant of extremely skewed death-cult variety Christianity while behaving thoroughly uncivilized in public amongst my friends and relatives could get me to marry her and also that I'd be alright with never ever having sex in said hell... to prevent my soul from going to hell, which seems ironic in retrospect, was a really cool idea.

I guess, things can sort of only go up from here?


It's the Middle Earth Dating Game, ... with Orcs!^TM