What a change...
So I decided to invoke my courage and get up with a buddy and go to a nice nightclub in Scottsdale (a really affluent area of Phoenix). Just a little background on me: I am average looking, nothing special, 5' 9", of course gyne.
Well.....
I approached 2 attractive young women and began the chat. I had them laughing in <2 minutes. My wingman could not believe it when he saw it he later said. They reciprocated with jokes peppered with questions that buoyed the conversation whenever it began to languish. One began shooting me indicators of interest up the yinyang, which I appreciated but soon departed to piss and mingle with other girls!!
Having lubed up my communication skills, I later began dancing with another chick and, right as I turned around, there was the first girl smiling, holding strong eye-contact as she walked across the dancefloor right up to my face! We started dancing while she started grinding herself into me as she said, "I like it when you do that." She said she was worried I wouldn't remember her the next day (as if I could forget!). I ended up with 3 phone numbers that night.
I kept trying to understand how a guy with so many perceived shortcomings could attract young, attractive, socially-intelligent, fun girls!
As an aside, I remember as I approached the first set of girls that there were clusters of guys surrounding them; but noone seemed to have the balls to initiate the chat. It appeared as if these guys were thinking about what they were going to say but just couldn't open. During our exchange, I recall looking around and seeing these guys--better looking than I, better dressed, taller-- staring at me as if thinking, "Dude, how did you get these two hot babes laughing and engaging?" I am not trying to vaunt myself, just making an observation.