You are making assumptions when you take his experiences and try to become an armchair psychologist because another man refuses to just accept the Just Be Better dogma.
Who else we've seen with women is irrelevant. I've said on here time and time again on this topic I'm sick of y'all using the Dollar Store Young Chop and Great Value Brittany Renner at the movies example when you don't know the mental/emotional/literal price paid for that man to be seen out in the wild with her.
Several hundred encounters is more than enough for a person to come to a conclusion about his rapport with another group of people. The idea that somebody needs 1 million people to form an opinion is silencing behavior.
If this is the case nobody has to listen to shìt you or any of the other posters have to say because there's no number to satisfy the quota in proper knowledge to make an experienced assumption. If it was said, "Women are looking for the man to make the first move", nobody would be sniffing out the number of approaches that person made to validate that.
He's already said he can't do it. That idea isn't mutually exclusive to how other people in your species shape your development. As someone in your 50s who actively is not dating you shouldn't be this antithetical towards dude. That right there shows how hive-minded and primally driven we still are as a species of animal who has outsmarted ourselves.
Why does he have to keep failing perpetually till he reaches your age before making the same decision you've made? Why is it so important to spend days arguing with him to spend another 2-3 decades trying in an aspect of life that simply isn't meant for him to flourish in?
His opinion on how women feel about him is simply that.
I'm simply talking facts. The facts are this he was treated how he was treated by them and in response to that treatment he made a decision. He alone made that decision and no one else. This is not my opinion it is fact. He could have made multiple different decisions. The path he is currently on is the path he chose for himself based on what he encountered.
He could chosen other options even multiples of these or more:
I'm gonna take some time off and focus on me and later on down the line start getting at women again.
I'm never going to speak to another woman again.
I hate women they're all bytches and hoes and I'll talk shyt about them every chance I get.
I'll never stop shooting my shot and if they reject me so what I'll keep going.
I'm going to go online and start catfishing people.
I'll just continuously hire escorts when I get lonely.
I'm saying whatever the choice own that choice. A person will never get anywhere in life in general if they can't look at a situation even a bad one and evaluate what they have control over, the options they have, and the decisions they make.
There's nothing wrong with quitting. There is something wrong with quitting and acting like you didn't decide to quit it was forced on you. I don't think he will make the decision I made because I dated and felt hollow and unfulfilled by it. Same with having sex so I just stopped all of it. The difference is I'm the reason why not anybody else.