I mean doing this in 2025 is legit pretty autistic, but of course redditors always assume the absolute worst because men perusing women in real life in 2025 is "creepy" at best, or straight up harassment. And of course some of them even assume the guy has the intention to do something horrible (rape, murder, kidnapping) because of prominent feminist talking points (MEN BAD, MEN SCARY, I CHOOSE BEAR) and muh true-crime youtube videos.
Anyway women hate this sappy romantic shit and always have. They think it's "cringe" and "creepy" at a minimum. Men are the hopeless romantics, women are the pragmatic ones who care about things that have intrinsic and/or practical value (good genetics, money, etc.). Sappy romantic shit is worthless to them and the only men who believe otherwise in 2025 are autistic men who got the idea from hollywood movies written by men.
And of course they bring up the age difference as being "problematic" too. 36 is "too old" to go for 28 year old women. But of course when women over 36 go for men much younger than 28 (which is becoming increasingly common, many of my male zoomer coworkers are dating women well into their 30s), it's "hot" she's a "milf" and it's totally different because of "muh power dynamics" "muh patriarchy" and "muh institutional privilege".