The majority of women in the West now are progressive in thought and preach about abolishing traditional relationship dynamics and the importance of egalitarian ones where both men and women are on equal footing. However, if you ask any man he will tell you how much women enforce the existence of these dynamics because of their desires to be treated like a woman in the relationship and not like another half of the equation, an equal partner. To be treated like a woman simply means to be treated like a princess, to be spoiled, to be paid for, to be protected, to be the small spoon, to be praised during sex, and what have you...

These desires are inherently against everything they talk about because it enforces all sorts of behaviors that are traditional in nature where men have more agency, dominance, and responsibility over the relationship compared to them. Men on the other hand don't really want a woman that has certain psychological traits to be attracted to them, they simply want a willing and enthusiastic partner because that's exactly what they're also bringing to the table. Why is that? Because we raised them to be as such, everything men wanted in terms of psychological traits like an agreeable woman, feminine, and submissive because it'd make them feel like the MAN was demonized in this post-modern feminist world.

Yet, women's part of the equation was left untouched and so now we have a weird situation where either women feel entitled to those treatments at worst or at best wanting it deep down but feigning superficial progressivism which ultimately breaks the relationship due to how shaky and dishonest the foundation is. From the men's side they are egalitarian in thought but get mixed feedback from women of them wanting more than just that which builds resentment from their side as well because they treat them fairly, but those women don't want that kind of treatment.

This is why we have men now seeing this disconnect and becoming traditional after realizing how they were duped and now they also want feminine and submissive women to boost their masculinity and make them feel like men, and this whole wave of young men who keep talking about and pursuing masculinity.

Now, we should either shame traditionalism in women because we've never done so, we just said women should have all the choices but we pushed men to just one and that is to become egalitarian or we no longer shame masculinity in men and help them become more traditional so that they can find compatibility with these women.

Because at this rate men are more progressive than women when it comes to relationships and women's traditional behaviors to them seem so off-putting and strange because they've never developed the required psychological aspects to take part in that dominance/submissiveness dance, to them it just feels like entitlement.

To all the women who will be reading this, you have to realize one single thing. I do not care how superficially progressive you are and how much you like to split the bill. That's not what we're talking about, we're talking about the unconscious here, things you do without thinking too much about it, deep seated desires and feelings and no amount of I want an equal partner will change how you react to actual egalitarian vs traditional relationship. It's about the feedback that you give and it takes a serious amount of self-awareness to comes into terms with it.