This article feels like the grown up version of being ostracized at school:

As a teenager, you get made fun of[1] for liking geeky stuff, people call you weird, all usually followed by the phrase "you'll never get laid".

Now all those geeks have grown up, and moved to Silicon Valley to do what they love. And here's a newspaper article to point at how weird they are, and how they will never get laid.

Why is this even an article? There's no real content here, only a couple random anecdotes and an opening paragraph about Trump, for some reason.

[1] It used to be that liking comics and programming made you a loser, but I don't know whether that's still "out" with kids these days.

This isn't just a Silicon Valley thing.

It is happen to whole Japan!!!

Or in several countries humanities courses are trying to decipher the "Marriage Strike", and so on.

The thing is, there are several problems that make having a family hard, and even when you don't want a family, and want just random sex, some problems still get in the way.

Personal anecdote, but good example: I am 29 right now. Also right now my interest in having a girlfriend dropped through the bottom, I am less interest now than any point in my life (even in my childhood I was more interested).

After some self-analysis I concluded the reason is very simple and obvious: What I would want a girlfriend for? I don't have any money (literally), I still have lots of debts (made to pay student debts), I don't own a house, or a car, or even a bicycle, I spend most of my time trying to sharp my work skills in hopes I can finally get some decent money having my first job (yep, I graduated in 2009, and never had a job!) or by getting some decent contract (I had many contracts, but mostly crappy ones that I took only because I had no other choice, since I am in debt).

If I had a girlfriend, she would "get in the way", it would make my life worse, not better, I don't have time even to buy my own food, what would be the point in having someone to share things (including time) with?

And I believe this applies to most of my friends and acquaintances too, even the ones in other countries, life is just too fucked up right now to people between 20 and 35...

In UK humanities courses even invented a new name for my generation: "Boomerang Generation", the only generation where large numbers are being forced to live with their parents unwillingly, even after attempts to leave home, the generation that in hopes of being proper adults rented some place out, failed to pay, and were forced to return to their parents home, like a boomerang.

At the very least, there are some outliers in Silicon Valley, like this guy: http://www.piedpiper.com/app/themes/pied-piper/dist/images/j...

San Francisco is strange. A lot of the males are gay, taken, or creepy/weird. What's left has to deal with the same thing as women. That is, many women have fed into the "odds are good, but the goods are odd" BS and have become arrogant, annoying, and delusion, though they are nothing special.

With women, I'd say something like, "the odds aren't good, but the goods are still odd." They aren't usually creepy/weird, but they're high maintenance, SJW'y (sees everything as some sort of unfair treatment, complains about every little thing, constantly creates more headache for everyone, etc), bitchy, full of themselves, annoying, and don't seem to realize most see them as a waste of time.

They're like those worthless draining idiots at work who like taking advantage of someone trapped in a bad situation and who say the dumbest thing (addressing others as though they're idiots) every chance they get. Oh wait, it's the same people, but now they're outside work while trying to repeat the same thing again.

Once they are off the table, only a handful of women remain.

In my case, while I was there, the handful left were often attracted to me; however, I kept noticing that if I entered a relationship with one and it didn't work out, that would be it. There would either nothing else, or I'd end up trapped (didn't work out, so therefore..) cycling through the same handful of women.

Trapped. Suffocated. Dead end. Dead end. Trapped. Dead end. Suffocated. <repeat>

That's what constantly repeated while I was there. Everything would lead to a dead end, and it was almost as though there were a group of people trying to keep it that way.

I've grown to find the "goods are odd" comment pretty offensive. People are who they are. They don't need to change themselves to conform to the author's expectations of what would make a good mate.

Tons of male computer nerds can't find a date.

What is this drivel? Lets regurgitate a bunch of stereotypical anecdotes to... what? Forgive horrible statements by the current president? Exclaim that Silicon Valley is too PC (despite its reputation as a frat house turned business)?

Both wrong, the correct answer is generate clicks.

> “There are men everywhere, but they’re all awful,” said Amanda*, a twentysomething professional whose recent dates have included a web developer who didn’t know the alphabet and a software developer who starting talking about marriage on the second date.

Okay, nonchalance is cool and cool is sexy, but if you're turned off by your date's ability to imagine marriage, you're looking for a balance you'll never find.