You go to the mainstream for a dating and advice, and in this garbage, it's just be yourself.

It's just this disnified nonsense. Don't worry, you'll meet someone eventually, like fate will

take care of it, just be yourself, just be nice, and then you go to the college party or something,

and it isn't the nice guys who are like, hooking up with the girls that you're into,

whatever. Then you feel like you've been lied to, and then you go in search of pickup artistry,

or the manosphere, or you look for things outside of the mainstream, because it feels like the

mainstream is either lying to you with some agenda, or just some lack of understanding, and then

you gravitate to alternatives, and some of those alternatives are not necessarily good for you.

You can become radicalised by that.

Hello, and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Boster. I'm Constantine Kitten.

This is a show for you, if you want honest conversations, with fascinating people.

Our brilliant and returning guest today is a journalist in author James Bologna. Welcome back,

man. Lovely to be right. It's been a few years since we had you on. We talked about one of

your books, which is hired, and that was about how big companies abuse staff, particularly we

talked about Amazon and Uber and others. You've been writing a lot of stuff since you've written

another book, and of course you're working on another one, and you've written a lot of articles,

and one of the areas of focus, I think, has been particularly masculinity, dating, all that sort

of stuff. So it's good to have you back. We wanted to talk to you about dating, first of all,

because that is the world that neither of us is particularly involved in anymore. We're in

sales. Yeah, we've upgraded. So it seems to me, just as an outside observer, reading about it,

and seeing that the way the technology has changed that whole aspect of life has just been

extraordinary. Tell us about that. Yeah, so I mean, I think dating apps have changed the

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