Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 1)

[DavidCroquet]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/american-women-are-giving-up-on-marriage-wsj.1156059/#post-138089244

Krazen, keeper of the PoliEra thread, with this incisive and urgent cultural commentary:

Marriage had become tied to capitalism; even as a man why would you take on a partner that can possibly be a financial or labor burden (which is sad btw). Then you get into the issue about how there's an obvious regression on how men value their SO's. I have heard anecdotally from my single female friends out there they talk the usual basic incompatibilities that always existed but also a darker undercurrent when dating. Dudes that will curse you out on text to save face after a few dates where its obvious on both sides there really isn't a spark. Which makes them less active in dating because its effectively more work labor and trauma.

But even skipping our social views on feminism going south, end of the day it does require money time and effort to get to the walk down the aisle point and we don't have that. It's tied to a bunch of things; lost of third spaces to meet people, lots of interactions happening on dating apps that only care about engagement not success, general exhaustion in the extra effort it feels to date after trying to make food on the table for just yourself or worse if you have kids on both sides

Who can forget those halcyon days when marriage was completely independent from capital or labor concerns...If only we could return the those good old days of Never A.D.