Words by Lois Shearing
Design by Yosef Phelan

If you’ve been online lately, you might have seen that straight people aren’t having a great time with dating.

The rise of the manosphere has meant that many young men see relationships through a gamified lens where they have to max out their stats – through the kind of looksmaxxing optimisation that would give Patrick Bateman pause –in order to win access to ‘stacys’; conventionally attractive women.