Am I too old fashioned for thinking that its best for the man to ask out the woman.

No you're not. I feel exactly the same. There's nothing old-fashioned about it. I don't like these new rules. I like a gentleman to be a gentleman.

If you want the guy to ask, you can’t get mad if he doesn’t. But I’m like you, I prefer him to do the asking.

I definitely prefer if a guy does the asking. But there's always loopholes, you could say something like "If you play your cards right I might let you buy me dinner sometime." Then you didn't really ask but made it clear you're interested.

Yes, you are, IMO. But you have the right to follow that standard. What other women do doesn’t affect you, so it’s not really your concern.

It's the woman's decision anyway, so from a logic point of view, it makes the most sense that women ask men out, instead of men having to bang their heads against 1,000 different walls until one opens up. Women's ratio would be significantly higher.

But, yes, due to fundamental instincts, the men have to do the initiation. And paying for dates. It's not a social construct; it's fundamental to our animal natures.

Because women want to be led by a man who can take charge, even if it's only an illusion, so women will never do the initiation [unless they're trying to prove women can initiate--or, unless they are trying to get with a guy way out of their league].

It's not only old-fashioned, but it's kind of nonsensical too. What's the difference between the man asking vs. the woman? Who cares? What does it really change in terms of the date?

If ladies want to wait on men to do that so be it. But personally I don’t see the point. If a man asks a woman out it isn’t “ forward” so I don’t quite see why the opposite would be. I think if adults are attracted to each other, I don’t know why wait on a specific gender to decide its time to start seeing where things could go. Life’s short and I think confidence is attractive. It takes confidence to put yourself out there, man or woman.

Im only excited to see how women fair in this department because they've been rather scathing towards us and how we approach😂.

Each should do what they are comfortable with. No need for inflexibility of rules.

Who are these men yall feel so compelled to ask out?? I will shoot my shot with Jason Momoa but thats it!

I don't care a long as she's hot

It's ok dear.