The Dilemma That Women Face: Dating in the 2020s

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The Dilemma That Women Face: Dating in the 2020s

So, anyone that has followed me for any amount of time knows that I like doing myTakes on topics relating to relationships, marriage, and dating. This is my next one that I have written in the series. I hope you enjoy. For repeated reference, this is not a targeting against any person, place, or thing, but merely an observation on the current state of dating, relationships, and marriage. This will most likely turn into a multipart series and I will be doing another myTake on the female perspective as a counterpart to this piece, but it may take a while.

The Dilemma That Women Face: Dating in the 2020s

A lot of women's worst nightmare is the day where men wake up and realize their worth. “Quite quitting,” was a term that was trending a while ago where underpaid and undervalued employees started putting in the absolute bare minimum effort into their jobs. They worked just enough to maintain their positions. No more and no less. They did not volunteer for extra duty and made sure not to go above and beyond in anything that they did. There is now a parallel phenomenon occurring in the dating scene today where an ever-growing number of men have gotten to the point where they have become disillusioned with a lot of women because the veil has been lifted.

The Dilemma That Women Face: Dating in the 2020s

Men are now checking out of relationships that no longer serve as assets to their life but rather as liabilities. Men have seen the lack of gratitude and reciprocity they encounter on a consistent basis from the other side. Unfortunately, we've built a society where men hear terms like "toxic masculinity" and "patriarchal oppression" constantly thrown around in public discourse while they work themselves to the bone trying to provide food, shelter, and other necessities for their families. Men are tired of being gas lit and shamed for their masculinity and nature and it's causing them to revolt against the same system that is holding them to unrealistic expectations. They see the complimentary balance of gender shifting way too far and they've become tired of being the main ones holding up their end of the bargain. A lot of women have fallen into the trap of measuring men by impossible standards because their expectations have ballooned from the constant revolving door of Hollywood and free social media validation. Men are struggling to keep up and they are sick and tired of having to prove themselves repeatedly just to ensure the love and the loyalty of their woman.

The Dilemma That Women Face: Dating in the 2020s

The perfect example of this is marriage. I asked a question a few days ago as to if users were interested in marriage if they were single, if you’re married, would you do it again, Why or Why not?. Most people said no, they have no desire to get married. The issue is not about reality, but the perceived reality. Ladies, ask any man if there is any purpose to marriage, and I would probably guess that there is about a 75% chance that they are going to say no. A simple google search of “Rates of Divorce by Gender” comes up with the answer that 70% of divorces are filed by women. Most people, especially men do not see there being a benefit to marriage anymore. There is a 70% change that you will lose half of your stuff. Prenups aren’t even a sure thing anymore because the person who has all the assets could have a motion filed against them in court to have it thrown out because their spouse only signed it under duress.

A lot of it can be traced back to the proliferation of the dating apps which have hollowed out human relationships and have virtualized the dating marketplace. This combined with a welfare state that does act like a safety net for repeated bad decisions and a lack of accountability has incentivized promiscuity while simultaneously breaking down and demonizing traditional gender roles at the expense of long term synergistic and wholesome relationships between men and women. Masculine men are the guarding the walls of our society and they have done an outstanding job holding it together even though they have been continuously shamed for the very qualities that make them men. In turn, they ask for recognition for their efforts, yet society has failed to do justice to their sacrifice and perseverance in the face of all their adversities.

The relationship dynamic between men and women is supposed to be comprised of a beautiful complimentary synergy. It is not supposed to be a tug of war where both sides stretch each other out in an attempt to compete. This is the sad reality of dating and relationships that many men find themselves in. Women, in their quest for a vein sense of gender equality have truly forgotten what makes them attractive to men of caliber.

The Dilemma That Women Face: Dating in the 2020s

This is only my opinion, so you can take it with a grain of salt. The biggest issue that women face with this ongoing trend is the fact that the minority is the most vocal. What I mean by this is that the blue/red haired feminist that gets the 3 minutes on CNN, MSNBC, or covered by commentators on YouTube, make the biggest ripples in the pond. Personally, I believe that most people do not have time to freak out over things like the woman who was calling a guy feral and swearing that she was going to rip off his reproductive organs for looking at her in the gym. We have way too many other things to deal with in our day to day lives; however, when that happens, and these things go viral through Facebook, TikTok, twitter, etc. and very few women denounce it as going too far or being too extreme and there is no swift backlash from the average female who goes to the gym, then that is what men see and that becomes reality. It is the same thing for the women who say, “All men are pigs, all men are dogs, Kill all men”, etc. This has become the new normal and even though the average woman going about her life without any intent or belief in what the minority says, it ends up permeating through society and becomes the reality. It becomes your reality because we do not have any control over how people react to things. When the Gym Girl goes viral on social media, the reaction was a video I saw where a girl was doing squats. She went over her limit and could not get back up; however, she asked a lot of men around her for help with the weight. No one came over to help her because she had her phone recording, and they didn’t want to be labelled as the next gym creep.

A man wants his woman to be a place of solace and refuge. He does not want his partner to be another battle that he has to fight, but this is the current societal predicament, and as more and more men walk away from relationships, dating, and marriage, they are taking away the most important masculine qualities that women and society inevitably cherish and need.

For additional reading, please read these following articles.

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/45-percent-women-are-expected-to-be-single-and-childless-by-2030

https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/nearly-a-third-of-men-under-30-arent-having-sex

https://nypost.com/2023/01/25/influencer-jessica-fernandez-admits-to-mistake-after-calling-out-creep-at-gym/

https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/columbus/news/2023/03/10/u-s--marriage-rate-plummets-nearly-60--over-the-past-50-years--study-reveals

The Dilemma That Women Face: Dating in the 2020s
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