I Love My Tweeting, I'll Pass on the Dating Advice

If you know me that well, you know I have an active Twitter account. In fact, I have several accounts on my phone. My main Twitter account, @TheRichWilkins, generates a little traffic, I guess. I have 5,810 followers at the time I write this. I give them some content every day. I give them probably 75-80% re-tweets (which doesn't equal an endorsement, of course, unless it does), but I give them plenty of my own opinion too. I give them my opinions on Trump, on the Phillies, on Bernie, on Hillary, on music, on the Sixers, and a whole bunch of other topics that come to mind on a day-to-day basis. Now, I have had to block a lot of people, particularly after voicing opinions on Bernie (the Socialists really, really hate me), but clearly someone is liking my stuff, because 5,810 of them choose to follow me. I probably do plenty wrong, but I must tweet something interesting to someone.

You know though, the more you read, the smarter you are? So I read long enough to realize that my Twitter is why i'm 33 and unmarried. Apparently straight men should shut their mouth on Twitter:

There is nothing less attractive than reading anyone’s Twitter account. Little things they say to no one? It’s very insane. Trying to make people laugh? Saying an opinion? Yuck. And of all the Twitter accounts, the worst Twitter accounts are the overactive straight male Twitter accounts. So many opinions. “Here’s what I thought about this article.” Man, I don’t care. “I didn’t like this book.” “I just saw this thing happen.” “[joke]” If you’re a straight male and you already have a girlfriend probably you’re fine, it seems like she sees enough good in you to ignore or gently attempt to curb your Twitter usage over time. But if you don’t I need you to know that there is nothing less attractive to a woman than your terrible Twitter history and I promise you that they are looking and their friends are saying to them “yeah…that’s pretty bad.”

The reverse is a friend looks up the Twitter of the guy you’re telling her about and she says, “He never tweets!” and you say, “I know!”

At the risk of dying alone in a cottage under a bridge as a Twitter troll that no one could love, I must respond to this- I don't give a shit. If someone is literally deciding to not date me because of my activity on Twitter, well, I guess i'm judging right back. Again, I've built an audience on there, I speak freely, and I kind of am what I am. If someone doesn't want to date me for calling Steve Bannon a white nationalist, or for saying some group in the Democratic Party should calm down, so be it. Yes, I'm still going to tweet about my disdain for Steph Curry's basketball game and the New York Mets. You can live with it- or not. You don't have to follow someone on Twitter, or date them. If you choose to do either with me, well, you get what you get.

I guess there's a part of this that gets well beyond my little opinion though, and gets to a broader society thing- white, straight men are generally awful creatures right now. I get that. Telling them to shut up more often isn't working out so well though, it caused them to go elect the absolute most morally, ethically, and intellectually challenged dimwit they could find to lead our country. Good job, American left. Now, I basically agree that the base instincts of many straight, white men are fairly disgusting, but I am a straight, white man, and I disagree with most of them. I can also tell when this kind of advice isn't working.

So, in short, you are getting my opinions. If that's repulsive, cool. If it's not, much more cool. If my Twitter cost me a date or two, or ten... oops. I don't care.