(TL;DR whatever happens in dating happens because women want it to happen. Most men are in a weak, desperate and disadvantaged position.)

Women are inherently the party with the least interest in terms of dating. Modern inventions and way of life exaggerated this even further by giving them an abundance of options.

For this reason, consensual dating is women's monopoly. In all dating situations that require negotiation, women determine all conditions under which the desired outcome happens. They decide whether a man's courting/advances will lead to a desired result or not, they decide the timing of any sort of intimacy (hugs, kisses, handholding, sex etc.), they decide whether marriage happens or not, they decide quite literally everything about children.

It's only men who have to spend copious amounts of money, walk on eggshells, jump through hoops, prove their worth and jester around to entertain their possible partners because of how little interest women inherently have in most men. At the same time, all this effort isn't even guaranteed to have a positive result - she could just say no, it's her right which you can't legally violate. At the same time if a man refuses to do all the aforementioned things, he will stay alone and people will say he deserved it, since he didn't work hard to earn women's attention. Basically a loss-loss deal.

Many will argue that a man is actually in the position of power because he chooses which women to court. However unless a woman deems him worthy, his actions won't hold any value - it will just be a cheap, unwanted offer nobody wants to accept. The man's choice will NOT matter and will worth nothing, if a woman decides so. That's why she's in a position of power here - everything is up to her opinion and choice, despite the seemingly passive role in dating.

Most male attention towards women is worthless and unwanted. Studies show that a man's attractiveness significantly impacts whether his actions will be perceived as sexual harassment or not. And most men just happen to be ugly in women's eyes. A man showing attention to a woman, on average, will result in a rejection and a negative reaction.

At the same time, female attention towards men is never creepy or weird, it's hardly ever unwanted. Even objectively creepy, disgusting, illegal behavior (e.g. grown woman trying to seduce a teenage boy) is allowed and even good in the eyes of society, because of how much value is inherently assigned to female attention.

A wide range of traits that absolutely destroy male dating/marital success (autism, ugliness, bad height) statistically don't do the same for women, purely because of how much more interest do men have in them and how low men's requirements actually are.

Why will it keep getting worse? Modern society creates more and more tools that increase the amount of available dating options, simplify the filtering process, and increase exposure to high tier genetically lucky people. This completely desensitizes and skews the standards of the party with least interest(women) and makes them delusional about their own worth and worth of the average man, which causes the party with most interest(men) to become increasingly more desperate and willing to compromise and accept way less in order to even have a chance in dating. Statistically most couples already meet online, the tools mentioned above are only getting more popular as ways for couples to meet (dating apps), whilst the other ways of meeting are dying off because they don't offer this much freedom of choice and power to the party with least interest.