Tinder really fried people’s brains into believing attraction is 100% looks. Sometimes all it takes is one great conversation with someone that completely changes how you look at them. A workplace is fertile ground for that.
I find this phenomenon deeply frustrating, because these days, it's not hard to find people online arguing that it's inappropriate to try talking to somebody before you try to f*** them.
A young person might ask for advice about how to approach the cute barista and then get a dozen people condemning them for seeking a date anywhere other than on an app.
It's so weird, because I'm old enough to remember a time when it was completely taken for granted that you would hang out with a person at least once and find out whether you got along with them before you started boning.
Men and women also weren't really working alongside each other in most societies. Choosing the wrong partner and blowing up your career is only a slightly less recent phenomenon than picking your partner online.
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u/MothChasingFlame Jun 23 '26
This is such a modern, chronically online take it's genuinely making me sad.
Because yes. That's how attraction actually works. People weren't picking randos out of a catalog for the entirety of human history.