Leaving aside the fact that Richard Hanania self-identifies as a troll at the beginning of this piece, it seems to me that his outlook is based on a deep underling anxiety about women and sex:
>To put it in stark terms, if you are a single male, every time you see a woman that you might be interested in dating and you don’t at least talk to her, you have failed on a moral, intellectual, and spiritual level.
The claim to have overcome anxiety and fear is a popular self-help trope. In most cases, what really happens is that the person's baseline anxiety transmutes into a second order anxiety about being too anxious. The usual effect of this – which we can certainly see in Hanania's case – is to make them obnoxious assholes rather than cowards.
>To put it in stark terms, if you are a single male, every time you see a woman that you might be interested in dating and you don’t at least talk to her, you have failed on a moral, intellectual, and spiritual level.
The claim to have overcome anxiety and fear is a popular self-help trope. In most cases, what really happens is that the person's baseline anxiety transmutes into a second order anxiety about being too anxious. The usual effect of this – which we can certainly see in Hanania's case – is to make them obnoxious assholes rather than cowards.