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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
CMV: It should no longer be acceptable for men to constantly have to make the first move in dating scenarios.

I am a man who struggles with reading body language and non-verbal communication. Matter of fact, let's go beyond struggle. I'm actively bad at it. Unless you verbally tell me you're wanting to do something, or not do it, I will never know you're interested, and I will actively choose to assume you are not.  

I am also struggling with deep personal hatred and confusion about my place in society as it relates to romance, and dating. 
Add this all together, and you get a situation where it's very easy for me to feel fear, and a deep anxiety, about having to constantly be responsible for leading an attempt to create a romantic connection with a member of the opposite sex. It's not out of the realm of possibility for me to enter into a nightclub, or some other similar setting, and feel fear to the point of wanting to leave the area absolutely. 

Maybe it's personal bias about this but if there are more men like me out there, why is it that I have to be responsible for always showing interest, escalating interest from the purely romantic into something sexual, and making every move?
gpt
Men don't have to always make the first move.

Think about all the conditioning that brought you to this idea. The feeling that men have to make the first move. I'd imagine women are dealing with the same conditioning but the opposite. 

Males who don't make the first move: Slur about being weak
Females who make the first move: Slur about being slutty. 


Dating is ALL screwed up.