To preface, I do not agree with removing or barring women from participating in these technologies. I just feel like we need to understand how they have and will change dating, marriage, and our society and ask ourselves is that where we want to go.

With the advent of birth control, modern abortion, and contraceptives, and swipes on an app leading to feeling of abundance and instant gratification, women can have casual or short term relationships like never before. Women are now pursuing the "bad boys" or highly sexual men with good physiques for short term, instead of men with traditionally calm husbandly demeanors. Previously, this would have resulted in poor consequences such as death from pregnancy, life altering std's, or single motherhood in a time where it would be tough to provide for herself and a child. These consequences have been removed, and now women are free to sleep with these types of men, especially in their teens and 20s.

The fact is, most women are living incredibly unaturally in our modern world. As stated above, these dating dynamics would never foster without social and technological innovation. One problem being...most men are left out in the cold. They are not building relationships and gaining experience. The lived experience is quite unbalanced, and most men who have not participated in short term relationships on a somewhat equal level won't want to provide that husband role that society expects of him.

When I was young, I believe 3 - 5% of 40 year old men were never married without children. If I remember right, it's now upwards of 28%, and I'm one of them. I cant say that I have any desire to settle down with a 40 year old woman whose lived experience is so diametrically opposed to mine. I really do think this is the crux of the issue in our gender relations.

What is society going to be like when gen Z men mature to middle age? Will there be a significant majority of men who are single and never married. Will men who have never had love from a woman, had good relationships with women, and have been bombarded by social media slogans like #killallmen and #futureisfemale their entire lives remain peaceful or will they isolate from society and become incredibly violent.

Interesting times ahead.