After all this time and all this social change, why is it still a rule that men have to ask women and not the other way around? I've been hurt too often to keep asking, and I wish I could just get on with my life and wait for someone to find me instead.
But that's not the way the world works. Regardless of greater LGBT acceptance and non-traditional relationships gaining ground, it is still practically unheard of for a woman to initiate a heterosexual relationship*. Why must it be this way?
(Yes, I'm bisexual and in theory a man could ask me out, but the chances of one of the ~10% of men who are queer being present and interested enough in me to ask (not to mention that nobody has ever recognized me as bisexual without me telling them) are so low I can safely write it off as impossible. Same with the very few women who would ask a man out; that's probably an even lower chance.)
*I have only be approached in this way twice, and both are extremely obvious exceptions. The first time, she was 12 and I was 14; neither of us knew a lot of the underlying social rules at that point. The second was with a trans woman who had only recently begun transition and probably still had a few leftover male traits.
