This is something I've experienced anecdotally, but would like to see challenges or studies contrary to this view. Some anecdotal observations around me:

- Slut-shaming.

  • Men usually slut-shame when woman cheats (muh property got stolen! or "poor X, they stole his property!"). Whereas a town-bike who just sleeps around with no relationship? You go girl!
  • Women, conversely, slut-shame the town bike because it's a pest for their collective value. They are tolerant of the cheating case because it has almost no impact on her own value. "He probably deserved it".
  • Men are not slut-shamed per se, but it's more like being called out for being greedy. Most men just kinda exhibit silent envy, whereas women are more loud about their *personal* suffering at the hand of a man-slut.

- Irrational jealousy

  • Men are irrationally jealous mostly of concrete men that are just broadly evaluated as credible threat (anyone is a thief lurking in neighborhood!). Girl talking to exes on facebook throws him into fits of rage, with no regards for the nature of her relationship with em. Only if the distance is very obvious, like her being infatuated with popular movie star or porn, then it hardly ever registers (unlikely that's a threat to his prized posession).
  • Women are more jealous of abstract symbols because it lowers their property value collectively, and you can hear a lot about devaluation of women in feminist lingo. A guy being infatuated with idol (camwhore, porn) makes her throw fits of rage - if the guy is infatuated with cheap imitation, that doesn't spell well for her value. Whereas him being friendly to an ex is ok, as long it can be ascertained nothing is likely to happen in terms of his loyalties - women in general have pretty keen sense for evaluating individual competition and only rarely act rash here the same way men do.

- Neoteny & rearing fitness

  • Young women will be quasi slut-shamed by older women under the "think of the twenty-something children" banner. Once again, young women are a collective pest as that's where male gaze is centered, pricing older women down.
  • Evopsych pressures of why men are attracted to weakness (and not just neoteny as such) in women is murky. It could be perhaps linked to that it makes guarding of property easier.

Assuming all of the above examples ring true somewhat, this may lend some credibility to men treat women as property, and seek to amass property.

Whereas women want to be property that seeks the best owner (hypergamy serial dating owner "upgrades").

Of course people are people, not money, but the point I'm trying to make here is that perhaps no exchange of value in a market occurs. It's more like women are money or store of value itself in this market - and this has significant implications if you want to use economic theory to model sexual strategy.