Agree. There's a clear and obvious difference between just friendly conversations between strangers and creep behavior. Most people, seems like, are willing to engage in conversation but also afraid to initiate one. On the whole, seems like people just don't have that much to say any more. People don't have interests anymore. They tend to be overly focused on a smaller amount of things. It's a talent to be able to participate in a conversation about something you don't know much about. People have abandoned the gifts of generalism. It makes them hard to talk to.

It's not just between men and women. It's hard to talk to other women as a woman many a time and I can't remember the last time I saw two or more guys genuinely shooting the breeze.

The last few conversations I have physically witnessed between men involved denigrating and bashing women as a way of bro bonding. Incredibly dehumanizing language.

It is not just because of the internet that women don't want to be approached randomly in public anymore.

Overall, it reminds me of that first middle school dance where everybody is hugging the walls waiting on someone else to have the courage to go start dancing because so few of us have the courage to be that first one or take the initiative to go ask the band to play better music. Whatever.