It's not that men have "settled" it's that someone finally DIDN'T reject us. The truth of the matter is that you probably had your chance DOZENS of times but you rejected each time because you thought
you could do better. What beautiful women fail to grasp is that sooner or later beauty fades.

Why do men end up with "less attractive" women?

Again I do not believe it is that they "settled". Maybe some have
but I don't think most men would marry a women they didn't see
as beautiful.

And there's the rub. YOU do not see these women as beautiful
but men do. I'm not even talking about inner beauty here.

Another idea is that these women WERE what you may call beautiful
but their beauty has over time faded away due to aging.

Of course intimidation is a factor. But it's less so that beauty
intimidates men then attitude. If you're cold then men will
probably not want to approach you regardless of how you look.

Plus I would suspect that a lot of men are like me, afraid to make the first move. I don't just go up to a girl and say hi most of the time because I feel like if I'm honest that I'm going to look like a creep. Since I can't come up with a good segway most times I just end up not ever talking to the girl. Even though I really want to.

Finally opportunity is a huge influence.
There are plenty of times that I have seen very beautiful
women but I pretty much could not talk to them due to circumstances.
Or at the very least I didn't know how. For example while walking to work another girl was walking to the bus stop. I wanted to talk to her but I have no idea how to do so without it seeming creepy.
I'm not very good at small talk. I like to get straight to the point.
But it's not easy for me to just say "You're beautiful."
I don't consider myself that attractive and worse than that I'm
extremely awkward. Put that together and you get this creepy lonely loser. :(

At the same time I have had great opportunities to talk to beautiful women but I just couldn't mustard the courage.

Then again I don't really talk much to anyone beautiful or otherwise. I don't hang out in big groups. I barely know
any girls.

Henceforth why I am even here. Because it's so much easier
to write hi than it is to say it. Too bad it's also easier to ignore.

You're hot.

Honestly, I couldn't care less about your profile or anybody elses.
I'm shallow so if I'm gonna date someone it's because they're hot and they like me. If we date and you're cool then it's awesome. But if you're not cool then your being hot won't cut it anymore.

Why should I bother getting to know you when I'm just gonna get rejected for my looks anyways?

Is it that I'm dull and uninteresting or is that I'm not that great looking? I'm not seeking attention here I just want to know what needs to be changed.

I like girls like you. :)

Thanks for the advice. But I dunno if it will work.
I'm poor and boring. I don't have much of a life besides
work, sleep and killing time on the computer.

"You should get out more."

I'm not an outdoorsy person and I never will be.
I hate sports and I'm socially inept.

And the things I WANT to do I can't.

So really I don't blame girls for not being interested in me
because I wouldn't be interested in me. I'm boring. :/

Thank you some actual advice. Instead of patronizing me.

Stop trolling.

I don't need advice on how to get rejected.
I already know how to do that.

I haven't been on a date ever.
So I don't know jack.

But what are the differences if any of how
a guy should handle finding a girl to date
both online and off?

I dunno but it seems to me that if I just ask
a girl if she wants to go out on a date I won't
ever get any response even though they see the message.
I dunno if this just cause I'm not their type or I'm doing something wrong.

On the other hand if I "get to know them" first then I could be spending a lot of time on a girl who never had any interest in me in the first place.

But again if I'm point blank it seems to be a turn off.

I feel like it's hopeless.

Seriously they do. Maybe it's because I'm not willing to fork over large amounts of cash money in order to NOT find someone but this is just a terribly inefficient system. Could I do better? If I knew how to make a web page and all the technical crap--maybe.

See the most annoying thing is that the closest you can get to your own city is like what 15 miles. I don't want to travel 15 friggin miles just to see someone! I want to know who actually lives in my own darn city! Also I want to be able to do an advanced search--of people who are actually online. Why am I even seeing people halfway across the country!? I mean hello this is a dating site! Yeah it might work for some people but I think most of us would like to find LOCALS.

Honestly if I have to actually go out in order to meet people then what is the friggin point of these dating sites anyways?

I'm gonna be single forever because I'm stuck seeing 50 year old moms from Idaho. No offense to you 50 year moms from Idaho. You are cool.
Dating sites aren't.