Saw a girl post a video talking about "Men aren't persistent anymore. My father asked out my mother and she said no, she was a waitress and he kept asking until she agreed to go out with him. My uncle did the same thing with my aunt, she was a cruise director and he was in the band on the ship, and he kept on asking what will it take for you to go out with me?"

Miss, your father and uncle grew up in a time when you could pay your college tuition working at Steak & Shake, get a white collar breadwinning job by looking the manager in the eye and giving him a firm handshake, buy a house for $20,000 and ask out a coworker without being fired. Here in 2024 saying "Hey do you want to go out for coffee sometime" is a career ending move. Asking out a waitress is how you signal the manager to ask you to leave the bar or restaurant. Compared to the 80's or 90's women in the United States handle being asked out very badly. "The worst she can say is no" is very much no longer the case. So if he even bothers to shoot his shot at all anymore "persistence" isn't even in his head.