Loll I just really have to say something here, I'm newly single, nice looking guy, 42 years old. And I just started back dating. I could just relate what I experimented in the last 6 months.
Now, It's doesn't reflect every women's, but there's some attitude that you need to grasp that women doesn't really see herself.
First, I started to be very nice to women... be honest, apply myself to write some nice text, note what I noticed about her, be respectful.
Well everything that you would expect of a gentle men. On dating site, it just doesn't work... I wrote like 4 nice letter a day, to 4 different women, and not just a "hi" a full paragraph that show my interest, I received like 1 reply out of 50, they simply don't reply.
Didn't work out, women are just too solicited.
Now, everybody told me to just stop looking and everything will come at the right time. Well It's true in a sense.
What I find out, mostly, is that women are so accustom to receive compliments, that they don't give a shit when your honest to her. They find it appealing when the guy just ignore her, or tell her that you don't give a shit.
The secret is to be yourself, don't waste energy on women, treat them like follow human, if a women interest you, talk to her like if she was your bud, and don't give a minute more. So that she understand that you exist, but show her that you have too much fun without her.
Make her feel that she is not needed, but be direct, leave no choice. "I'm leaving... your coming?".
Women are really complicated, they want respect, but only after they have been ignored.
They want nice guy's but only after been trash talked.
In dating site, I only receive response, when I use, no compliment, direct, with a nice face picture. I know, it's stupid, but women just don't care about compliments.
anyway, it's my two cents.