Nice piece with some good humour.

It is a market place and market places tend to get influenced when a critical mass of traders move.

In trading they say that "The trend is your friend" This is how men have operated in the pussy market for the last century. They have bid a little more simping and slightly lower expectations generation after generation and even though none of them really wanted to it was just like a housing bubble, if you didn't pay the asking price, maybe even a little over the asking price, someone else got the house (or the womb).

This has allowed women to make some terrible choices because they know that there are only as many women as there are men in the world and any man who wants one has to bid. They can do terrible things to the merchandise and men will still buy.

This worked while prosperity rose and while it was still possible for most men to bring something to a woman's life and find he could actually stand to live with her at least long enough to re-produce. This is changing now. Men are not so prosperous, partly thanks to the decline of the west and partly because of equality laws giving the jobs they deserve to women. They really can't offer women much that women can't get for themselves. Women have dropped their value even further by adding new layers of entitlement.

The market is collapsing. The merchandise is poor quality. Men can't really afford it and the risks it brings. The best thing we can do is collapse this market as fast as possible. The short term loss is long term gain for civilisation. We can't have so much productivity wasted in both men courting woman after woman for nothing but short term sex and women spending all that wealth on nothing of value while contributing noting of their natural talents to humanity.

Social engineering, i.e. "the system", pushes women's evolved buttons, buttons that were placed there way before marriage was instituted.

Intimate relationship? Smells of incest.

Secured husband? Isn't the lawn greener...

Sure, women may be "rebellious", but that's just a façade, and we all know (the system too) that they crave submission, and they'll ultimately back whomever possesses power.

It's just that... Fenales being so numerous and such a huge capital, it's a shame to let it be used by her husband or her family. If you are "the system", why not milk them yourself?

Just as nuns of old were considered "Brides of Jesus", contemporary women are brides of the system.

They are served a "fast life" strategy that leaves them hollow by their 50s, but they can't know it till then.

This is a post in response to a question @First-light posed below. We need to redefine what a “good man” is both for ourselves and others.

@First-light observes this fundamental wisdom: https://www.forums.red/p/whereareallthegoodmen/324856/weekend_post_leftover_inspin_envies_her_younger_cousin_s_upc “Its the choices that modern women have that ruin them.”

Ahem, I have ruminated over this observation several times over the years. Here's my middle aged man's (minus the belly) opinion below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzo73jYl3Ew

I posted something from a Cheddit female incel group where a woman who KNEW she was homely (which says a lot in these times) said she refused to 'settle" for someone "who didn't put in effort" and yet she had sexual urges she sought to have released. Repeat: She could still get laid but she wouldn't get a free meal or clown game out of him. (I have searched for this post to no avail. If someone finds it, please pin it in the comments below).

It makes me wonder that there's something larger going on with our civilized society that goes beyond feminism where women are raised to be dominant. I read on X just the other day "women have ALWAYS been choosers". Well, no. For nearly all of conscious human history (since the discovery of fire), it was men, whether a father or invader, who chose his daughter's mate hence "asking the father for her hand in marriage" cheesy custom on The Bachelor. (I think they're REQUIRED to do that as per their contract because it's such a cringe humiliation ritual I can't see why at least one of them didn't opt out.)

“Hey, I’m dating a dozen other girls. Is it ok for your daughter to marry me?” https://youtu.be/MmuzZ9QwB_c?t=207

"On the other hand... No! There is NO other hand!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkiWIpiQjbQ

Our society doesn't even have a "real woman" image of femininity anymore. We don't have a "woman up" shaming ploy but in the past, women were expected to be submissive. Unless she had huge tracts of land as a dowry, she was merely a serving wench and treated as such. Even a peasant man was expected to be in charge of his hut.

At some point in the west, women were told they were all boss babe “ladies” and “princesses” and feminism was merely an escalation of that mindset. This thinking has spread to the far east such as Korea and Japan (due likely to USA military base influence).

In the meantime, men were conditioned to be more feminine and submissive which suited the free market capitalists perfectly because that cheapened the labor similar to that of serfs. I undid this conditioning about 2 decades ago. "Be a good hard worker even if your boss is a jerk". Sheesh! I actually READ someone say that (not exact words but close.)

So no wonder modern women act like type-A alpha male jerks and men find it tough to quit BP.

As I stated last week or so, men do have choices now including RP which is interesting because RP is now pretty easy: It instantly makes your life better although there’s some MINOR social shaming feedback. Stop overtipping at restaurants ($35/hour for all tables for a waitress, not $35/table at 22% regardless) Stop overpaying for dates (CAKE (not "coffee") at a cafe instead of a whole dinner). Stop doing unseen work at a job where they treat you as disposable.

Heck, let’s talk about that last one as an example of how to be successful in relationships in general. If someone else is carefully metering what they do for you while you do hidden work, “for the team”, they’ll simply demand more of you. Here’s this great line from a wonderful movie North Dallas Forty that explores a “workplace” (a fictional NFS sports team) about teamwork:

“We’re not the team!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNiisYtYcRk

So let’s focus back on women: Being a provider/protector as defined by “traditionalism” is being a serf: Either you’re working in the fields and handing over nearly everything to a “lord” or “lady”, or you’re a conscript cannon-fodder to die again, so the lord/lady gets another acre of land and serfs to add to their wealth.

I also blame the superhero movies that set literally (using that word literally correctly!) superhero expectations of men.
https://youtu.be/qJvvCSUsZIw?t=109

So it’s no wonder that women now regard men as pathetic and sub-human. In Superman II, he uses a superpower kiss to erase Lois Lane’s memory so she isn’t stuck being an Alpha Widow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byu1LpPsYvE

I’d end it there, but here’s what I’m doing in my own life: I don’t do unseen work for free and I remind others of my value when needed. When my wife asks me for something and doesn’t say “please”, I pause and stare at her. Then I tell her to say “please” or it doesn’t get done. Then when she says “please”, I pause for effect and and slowly say, “ok”. If she doesn’t say “please”, I wait and announce to her “sex at 2PM”. She gets shocked and I say “Why should I say please? You didn’t do so earlier did you?”

It’s not only US that need to get off the BP but those around us as well. It’s a lifestyle change.