It is staggering and makes me more misanthropic while enjoying the benefits of it. In the late 90s, I was fit but not hot. My face changed or matured or something and now I am fit and hot — and goddamn (as I’ve written about before) the difference in treatment I get now versus when I was fat and schlubby is fucking night and day.

Recently, my partner and I were staying at a hotel and the front desk woman (22-26 or so) was beyond friendly, well into flirting*, so much so that my partner even noticed though she’s usually oblivious to such things. The main difference is that when I’m with my partner, women are typically less flirty. But this time she got to see it too.

I mention the front desk woman’s age because contrary to what Twitter and such would have you believe, when you’re an attractive dude in your 40s, younger women seem to glom onto you, seek you out and flirt with you shamelessly. It’s not like you have to make special effort. So don’t listen to what weirdo internet people say about any of it. They’re on Twitter shouting and have very little real world experience for the most part.

I think it’s completely wrong that to be treated as a full human you have to be attractive, by the way…it’s fucking absurd.

*Yes, I know customer service people are trained to be artificially friendly. This went well beyond that.