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I don't blame you, especially if your experience with women is mostly online.
Society has propped women up, most especially the past 30 years and it has escalated in the past 10 years. Social media, news media and SIMPS have inflated women's egos and fed into their entitlement. On top of that, they have been told they are oppressed, even as MORE of them have Degrees and the option for high paying jobs, should they commit to their careers. (Many don't).
Many women have become insufferable.
They are starting to see the repercussions of this. As many men pull away and opt out. This is happening among ALL age groups. Estimates are between 60 and 80% of single men have stopped dating.
The rate of single women has been rising significantly in America in recent years. In 2023 it's estimated that the number of single (this includes divorced women too) was 52% of ALL women.
The rate is likely higher, as many women opt for casual sex with multiple partners for long periods of time.
Women believe they have many options. And, young women do. Those options, the attention they get on the internet and in real life, all feed their confidence. Their peers on social media teach them to take advantage, and can lead them into becoming insufferable and hard to deal with. Not to mention, the SIMPS.
I can't stress enough how SIMPS have made socializing with the women they reach intolerable. It's not just young and beautiful women that SIMPS reach, it's also older women and many average or below average women.
So, if you're under 30, you have it rough.
Women are easily influenced. That's why the majority of ads and media are aimed at them.
his has led to bad actors in media and Academia manipulating women, in the hopes they in turn, can affect men. I won't go into detail, but see Left leaning movements like BLM, Free Palestine, and issues like toxic masculinity and the uplifting of Socialist ideals.
I'm glad to report that has failed. As more and more men have rejected those ideas.
There was a time where Western society in general had opened it's collective mind, and started over listening to women. And putting unqualified women in leadership positions. Many have failed, some linger, mostly in media and Academia.
Women are also 'waking up'. They are generally the single women between the ages of 30 and 55.
30-36 year olds are being rejected by their ideal partners.
37 and up are struggling to find any partner willing to have a long term relationship with them.
It should be noted, this isn't ALL women. There are women in every age group that have strong character and are easily recognized as good partners.
China has a word for women who remain single in their late 20's, Left over women. (This isn't just a WESTERN problem)
I think this is a good term and accurately describes women who aren't good partners.
The solution, men continuing to take a stand, online and in the real world. If you don't want to have a family, keep opting out.
If you do want a family. Well, men can start a family at any age. So, really, once you have a good stable job, trade or have developed a means to provide. That's when you look for your ideal woman. The best place to find her, is Church. IF that isn't an option for you, then you might want to use a pay service app or website that stresses commitment. Or, if you're capable, the real world. Exclude all women who have more than one red flag.
As far as standing up. You don't have to do anything drastic. Don't go around ranting like a maniac. In conversation, when hot button terms are brought up or rhetoric like "systematic, institutional, oppression, privilege and patriarchy are brought up", calmly and simply challenge those ideas.
There is no patriarchy. We have women in leadership in every facet of society, private businesses and government.
Any argument with the word systematic and institutional, referring to sexism, racism or some other discrimination, is simply not true. The media and special interest groups have taken isolated incidents and applied them to society as a way to create division. usually to be applied against political opponents or further another agenda.
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There is no such thing as toxic masculinity. People can be toxic, violent and caustic. Masculinity and femininity have nothing to do with it.
Masculine traits are healthy and needed, whether for something as drastic as aggression in the service of protection or self defense, to competition that fuels advancement and innovation.
Masculinity doesn't oppress or threaten, again, PEOPLE do that through willful acts and behavior.
Women, like Men, can be asshole anon. But they can be good too. They have been targeted, as we all have by bad actors. Don't let THAT influence you into giving up or becoming a misanthrope.
Dating is challenging. If you want a woman, don't give up. Don't make excuses, just know that it is difficult to find a good one. And that EVERYONE is in the same boat. Attitude is everything. Keep that chin up soldier.