45% of Men Age 18–25 Have Never Approached A Woman in Person

A shocking pathetically piss-poor statistic about men. What the hell are they afraid of, seriously?

Dean Brooks
5 min readAug 14, 2024
Source: Midjourney

A few months ago I rewatched the 1993 cult classic True Romance. Written by Quentin Tarantino and directed by Tony Scott, Romance centers on a young Detroit man named Clarence (Christian Slater) who starts a wild relationship with a call girl (Patricia Arquette). There’s a road trip to Los Angeles. A crazy Hollywood shootout. Some bloody good violence with a corkscrew. Elvis Presley. A dreadlocked white gang banger who thinks he’s black. A thug character who talks about his love of eating ass. And the late great Dennis Hopper going on a racist sililoquy about Sicilian history to bait a mob boss into blowing his head off.

In other words, your basic Tarantino film. Beautiful stuff.

‘True Romance.’ Source: Warner Bros. Pictures

It also features something in the very opening scene that would likely send a Gen-Zer into a full-blown mental breakdown. Our hero, Clarence, in a bar by himself, hitting on some random chick by smooth talking to her about his love of Elvis and Kung-Fu movies. After putting on the…

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Dean Brooks

Novelist. I write about anything and I'm right about everything.