I thought Dean's article was overly harsh, and said so there. I also am unsure whether to trust his source. And lastly, so what if it's true? A lot of women are relived to not have random men approaching them.

I went to bars in my early twenties, I never tried to talk to a woman there. While I'm sure people do meet in bars, that's the stupidest metric ever to gage whether the kids are meeting each other.

If anything, the focus should just be on talking to someone without any expectation of anything.