If Women Were Expected To Make The First Move, Dating Would Be A Lot Different

Making the first move is a huge responsibility that we usually leave up to men. Women let guys initiate sex, ask for their numbers, and take them on dates. But what if those duties were left to women? What if guys depended on us to take charge and gave us coy glances at the bar while they sipped their strawberry daiquiris? With that responsibility on our shoulders, women and the world would be a little different.

1. Women would take more risks. After all, approaching a stranger to ask if they’d ever consider spending quality time with you is a risk. Every time a guy does it, he faces rejection, but they’ve learned to suck it up and go for what they want. On the other hand, women rarely take that risk, but if they were forced into it like men are in the real world, chances are they’d be more willing to take other risks in life as well.
2. Women would be more assertive. Women know what they want, but they have a problem asking for it. We don’t want to come off the wrong way or hurt someone’s feelings, and we tend to think we don’t deserve what we actually do. But if the future of the human race depended on it, we’d have to toughen up and go after whatever it is we want.
3. The derogatory term “bitch” wouldn’t exist. When a woman is smart, speaks her mind and exhibits strength or leadership, people like to call her a bitch. Think if you’ve ever had a female boss or manager as opposed to a male one. Women with authority are seen as bossy, bitchy, or naggy, but men in the same position are seen as leaders. If women ran things, we’d probably instead have a derogatory term for a man who takes charge.
4. Women wouldn’t overthink everything. Overthinking in a situation leads you to hesitate and ultimately psych yourself out, and the women of today are masters of that. Think about all those times you wait for a guy to text you back. Instead of a rational explanation, like maybe he’s busy because he works a 9-5 and we texted him at 10 in the morning, we start thinking that we did something wrong and he doesn’t like us. But if we were the ones who were supposed to make the first move, he’d be the one freaking out. Guys usually shrug when things don’t go as they hoped; they don’t invite five of their friends over to discuss possible scenarios.
5. There would be less rejection in the world. Women reject men all the time, because they keep thinking they have a chance. No matter how hard you try to look uninterested in a guy, they just don’t get it and still come over to hit on you. You put on your bored face, give them one word answers, and keep turning away to look in a different direction, yet they still try to have a conversation and pitifully ask you for your contact info. But how many times do you see girls going up to guys and trying super hard to get them to have sex? Like, never, because it doesn’t happen and guys aren’t hard to convince. Also, we wouldn’t go up to a guy out of our league nearly as often as guys do it, because we actually think with our heads, not our
6. Women would probably be in charge of a lot more. If we were expected to make the first move in dating, who’s to say we wouldn’t also be expected to be leaders in science, business, and politics? If women were more apt to take risks and were more assertive and spontaneous, there’s a good chance there would be many more female leaders in the world in charge of countries and corporations. After all, if you want something, you have to fight for it. A woman who goes after what she wants can really do anything.