Big Facts.
I grew up in a time when boys/men actually had to walk up to a woman, talk to her, and risk potential rejection as a natural consequence of the approach.
This is with all of your boys waiting and watching just to clown you if you failed or hate on you if you succeeded.
Weak, thirsty, dudes with no game and no women would get mad and scream at women. Women would actually give out fake numbers to an answering machine...
Anyway...like anything else, the more you do it, the better you get at it.
All a part of becoming a Man in those days.
This was before social media and the mass adoption of online dating sites.
Black Planet was the start of the ending for me
The '90s were truly wild.