I have a question about the relationship types.

Maezawa from the President’s Office here as well. Thank you for your question. Even with the more proactive Dating Type D (you’ll say yes more than 80% of the time), you can still turn someone down. So with Dating Type C (you’ll say yes about 50% of the time), it should be even easier to decline. As for what men think, many of them are quite confident, so a lot of men assume they can make it work with a Type C woman. Whatever happened to the 50% figure...? In reality, being turned down by one out of every two women still makes you an average man. So if you’re worried about disappointing men, I think you’d be better off choosing Dating Type D. You can still turn someone down as a Type D, and if you want to accommodate men’s preferences as much as possible, it would make little sense not to choose Type D. Ideally, if nearly every Type C woman proceeded to an arrangement after dinner, that should be considered dating-type fraud. But men tend to judge things by their own standards, so as long as they personally can make it happen, the dating type seems irrelevant to them. When they can’t, though, they immediately start shouting “scam, scam!” (lol) Once you understand that Type C means about 50%, I think it’s best to stay within your comfort zone while making sure the arrangement benefits you, too.

I’m Flag Maker, a columnist. When a man is set up with a woman who’s classified as Dating Type C, he’ll probably go into the date expecting, almost 100%, that it will progress to an adult relationship (intimate) that day. He’ll look forward to the date and may even abstain from masturbating until then. So I imagine it can be quite a shock to be turned down without any consideration. If you do decline, I’d appreciate it if you could do so kindly and leave some hope of taking things further in the future. Thank you.

I’m Paper Airplane, a male member. Unless there are special circumstances, I think they’d be disappointed—after all, they probably wouldn’t expect to be turned down.

I’m Kazu, a male member. My understanding is the same as the questioner’s: “If we hit it off from the first day, the relationship may develop further.” So I take that to mean that it may not always progress that way. In my own experience, two women have canceled on the day because they were on their periods. Both apologized and seemed genuinely sorry, and we arranged our next meeting right away. That made it clear they weren’t avoiding intimacy with me, so I wasn’t disappointed. I’ve never been turned down because we didn’t click or our terms didn’t align, so I won’t know how I’d feel until it happens. If our terms didn’t work out, I’d probably just accept it, since I would be the one choosing not to offer the allowance the woman wanted. But being rejected because we didn’t click would feel almost the same as being told, “I’m just not attracted to you,” so I think it would go beyond disappointment and genuinely hurt.