A shortage of single men in Sydney, Australia, has forced local women to ask other women to identify as men.
The very modern solution adds an exciting new element to the matchmaking milieu, and ensures that all the good ones need not be taken or gay.
Women leaning into Sydney’s famed gender diversity can scroll through dating apps and websites to find a date who identifies as a man, or as any of the 16 (and emerging) genders.
Intrepid women can dip their toes into the new age dating pool by requesting a cisgender man, but the date will inevitably draw upon their own heteronormative dating disasters when playing the role. Conversation will become one-sided or mono-syllabic, so women can demand a new potential partner who is gender-expansive. A top up of the house wine will help, and a gender-fluid date will even pay for the drinks.
But who pays the bill?
Modern, independent women abound in the harbour city, and are accustomed to splitting the bill. Modern, independent men concur, but what if the date identifies as non-binary?
The location of the romantic rendezvous presents its own complication or opportunity.
A traditional restaurant date may contradict the new age sentiment, and will cause angst if a pan-gender person is a fussy eater. It’s more fitting to ditch tradition and start the date at one of the rainbow motifs in the region.
Alas, before we find our loveless ladies a life-long partner, we must pause to ask: where do we find a woman who is willing to identify as a man and date another woman who identifies as a woman? Clearly, these gender non-conforming souls live among us, so we must concentrate our search on the gender-void, who will kindly fill the gap in the lives of so many luckless locals.
Once identified and briefed on the agender, our gender blind dates can be given an alluring online profile and wait to be swiped off their feet. Hopefully they is not a grammar pedant, and if our women in waiting are lucky, the man will be omnigender and offer the whole package. Ideal dates also prefer anatomical sex to online ‘uploads’, and might even be intersex, which is great for girls who just wanna have fun.
This may all sound a little far-fetched, but it’s 2025. Furthermore, if rich Sydneysiders can identify en-masse as VIP, why can’t our women identify as men?
Ultimately, if asking local women to identify as men in order to find an attentive, house-trained, interesting, attractive, caring, honourable, faithful, empathetic, compassionate, ambitious, gainfully-employed life partner is just too complicated, there’s always Netflix and a bottle of red.
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