Not totally entirely related but it reminds me, now that I think about it, that we have a small success story in the family.
He used to be horrendous w/ women, and he would get super offended when we tried to get him out of his weird headspace, said he felt attacked. but we helped him work through the awkward phase by taking him out and talking to girls, even having convo practice w/ girls we knew.
He used to always do that awful tinder line about being an ax murderer, like "uh......um.....haha are you sure you wanna go out with me I might be a rapist serial killer lol haha". But he realized he was coming off like an uptight autisto and got more relaxed, easygoing with his banter. When he showed up to the holidays this year he had a cute little college gf in tow - that he cold-approached!
I don't like how often I feel I have to say it though....there are some really off-putting, weird guys out there, and nobody ever cares about them enough to say "hey man you're coming off as friggin' weird, you need to change" It's like having halitosis but everyone is too "nice" to warn you about it.
(Also telling girls to do things to fix their lives is wasted time, it's like writing articles to labradors about how they should grow up and get jobs to be taxpayers - they're dogs. Every girl is basically a total screwup and there's no saving them, except where a man can show up in her life and save her from herself.)
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