I completey agree, but get this:
We as men, can grow up and not really know our place in the dating ecosystem. (our level).
Think about how beauty/prettiness is an everyday compliment or diss for women. For example: you see a couple of younger women hanging out at a place that they get dressed up for (the first or second compliment you'll hear is "you look so pretty") Men don't get this at all usually.
Now that may seem benign but men don't hear stuff like that hardly at all growing up. Except for the truly execptionally attractive dudes NH
So you have a lot of basic looking to ugly dudes who grow up not knowing what features or whatever will make them attractive to women. So they just shoot there shot (as awkard or clumsy as that may be). You have dudes who think all he needs is a hair cut and clean clothes (which helps alot) but forget about those far apart eyes, a-symetrical facial features and overall unattractiveness that they may have. We as people need to get one thing straight........women are visual creatures! My ex gf told me this a lot. Thats one thing we as men seem to try to gloss over or not want to believe, because for a lot of dudes, there is no way to avoid that. No amount of weight lifting, dressing the part or crisp hairlines can avoid that. Women have make-up, men don't. We stuck with what we are!
So in the back of our minds (well ugly avg dudes minds) women can't possibly be REALLY thinking I'm ugly, (there is no male standard of beauty afterall) so I just need to keep on pursuing, even though she crosses her arms, avoids eye contact and is dissmissive of my compliments.