Bad Advice From The Internet: "If You Don't Call To Setup A Date, You Are A Coward."
This Bad Advice is from old people who are angry about new technology like texting. 20 years ago when calling was the default, this advice would have been valid. Now the default is texting, especially for young people. The data shows that many women under 30 think calling is an intrusion of privacy and inconvenient or rude. To them, you are not more manly, courageous, or gentlmanly. You are just weird. This is why understanding social groups is so important. Everything you do is contingent on that. Whatever is normal to do in that group is what you should be doing: If you are in your 40s asking out a woman in her 30s or 40s, call her. If you are in your 20s asking out a woman in her 20s, text her.