Jay Cavanaugh
2 min readMar 4, 2024

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I'm 65 years old and often find myself working with men much younger, 20's, 30's. Too many of them spend too much time online on sites like Reddit etc and also watch too many podcasts by some reputable misogynists. Imagine basing your idea's and ideals of women on the crack pot theories of say, oh I don't know "Jordan Peterson"? Anyway I've never had a problem meeting women and have had many relationships over the years, but I'm a musician and bass player and, well, that has always been my way of attracting women. It works, what can I say. But when I ask these young guys how it's going with the ladies, they're basically mute. Essentially they don't know how to approach a woman in the real world, have a load of B.S. podcast crap in their heads about women and spend too much time by themselves online and "Gaming". Unfortunately many of them are just plain scared. One colleague of mine was fascinated with how easily I can strike up a convo with a women. I tell him just start talking bro. And if you think a woman might find you interesting or attractive just ask her out for coffee. Nothing fancy, just keep it simple, you have to start somewhere. Before all the devices we have now started distracted us, beginning with the Walkman, (I know that dates me) we had to interact with each other. As a guy I would regularly strike up a convo with a woman on the train or ferry and more than a few times asked her out. Call it the elevator pitch, but that was not unusual back then. I got a few dates that way and I had to deal with a fair share of rejection, but I tried. Most of these lonely guys are afraid to even try and that is really sad. But sooner or later all these InCels and Lonely men will have to interact in the "Real" world or spend their lives alone and angry. And in a Gun Happy nation like this, well, you can guess the rest. Good read, thanks.

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Jay Cavanaugh

I’m a long time NYC musician, bassist, vocalist, song writer who has flirted with acting, performance art, indie film, poetry slams and straight up theater.