I just came across some vids talking about the “having a boyfriend is embarrassing now” article and a lot of women in the comments seem to say that it’s justified because boyfriends can be embarrassing or that it’s just another form of “centering men” and “revolving around men”, personally I think that that’s just a load of bollocks and mental gymnastics and an excuse or front to rise women’s inherently “dating marketplace value” while diminishing men’s,

The “hating men is still centring them and therefore not free from the patriarchy” is so backwards (and surprisingly common) that I think that a lot of these women that have mentalities like that genuinely don’t have a solid grasp of how actual real social systems work, it’s not that men only benefit from women in a relationship while not expected to give anything in fact my experience is that it’s been the reverse for me, so for them to carry that attitude and justify it with “in the past there was female oppression so it’s fine for men to dismiss or minimise men until I get proven otherwise” is ridiculous and at that point I’d say that they’re the problem.

I also saw a gay commenter make a comment saying that he was a victim of the “patriarchy” because he used to have “straight girl’s marriage fantasies” about marrying a guy and settling down……. I am literally lost for words society is over, dating is over, these people are cooked in the head, it’s no longer about “equal rights” it’s more about using historical oppression narratives to maintain female cultural power over men.