The problem with meeting the opposite sex is is related to the social functioning of a Minnesotan regarding friends. Women here are really shacked up -- in the adjectival sense! They generally hang around with guys they've known since high school or junior high. And in their little hick reality, the world of men is their silver platter. All they have to do is say: "I don't have a boyfriend", and just like flies in swoop the hick guys!
From what I've heard, lots of fellows here aren't that personally attractive to women overall. Yet it ticks me off when on the one hand I hear jokes about Minnesota men's lowness while at the same time people act like Minnesota women are the epitome of what all the world's men desire.
For one thing, part of the courtship ritual around here is to eat at local hick dives (remember the movie Deliverance). This is a real low point of the typical Minnesota gal's sexual ego. Additionally, fast food is held in the same high esteem here as it was in the rest of the country 25 years ago, and if a guy doesn't adopt this archaism, he'll have an even harder time meeting attractive women. Come out of your shell, Minnesota!
I'm not going to gripe much on this one. But one hidden factor that Minnesota hicks don't seem to sense is that there is such a thing as sexual objectivity in certain men. Like we may find that we don't have to really go that far to find a better market. Like try Wisconsin, Iowa or South Dakota.
