It’s out of date given how much dating has moved to apps.
And before apps, it was friends/families, and various communities like church, more than it was bars.
Whether cause or effect, alcohol interest has gone down, so it’s only weirder to picture meeting someone in a bar.
There’s some moral panic that Gen Z doesn’t know how to talk to people in person which interacts with your question somehow. Like people will excessively mourn the loss of bar dating, when actually meeting dates while drunk sort of sucks. I’m sure there’s a kernel-of-truth here, but generational moral panics are pretty much the default.
It’s extremely sitcom-friendly in a way that staring at phones and computers isn’t.
By the time it’s in TV/movies, it’s already heavily romanticized. The best example is “Cheers” which is a bar-as-church show. But the show is made when that type of community is already bygone.
When I was dating 10 years ago people still romanticized “meeting someone organically,” but not in any serious way that would stop them from app dating.
It’s out of date given how much dating has moved to apps.
And before apps, it was friends/families, and various communities like church, more than it was bars.
Whether cause or effect, alcohol interest has gone down, so it’s only weirder to picture meeting someone in a bar.
There’s some moral panic that Gen Z doesn’t know how to talk to people in person which interacts with your question somehow. Like people will excessively mourn the loss of bar dating, when actually meeting dates while drunk sort of sucks. I’m sure there’s a kernel-of-truth here, but generational moral panics are pretty much the default.
It’s extremely sitcom-friendly in a way that staring at phones and computers isn’t.
By the time it’s in TV/movies, it’s already heavily romanticized. The best example is “Cheers” which is a bar-as-church show. But the show is made when that type of community is already bygone.
When I was dating 10 years ago people still romanticized “meeting someone organically,” but not in any serious way that would stop them from app dating.