Women were rewarded for their ability to find and keep a man, with elevated social status and praise. It became even more suffocating when this could be leveraged on social media for engagement and, if you were serious enough, financial gain.

One video I watched was titled: “ How to Be His Dream Girl Forever (Even After Marriage & Kids) .” In it, the creator says, “Men are simple creatures...the feminine invites and creates vacuums in space for the masculine to step in.” She adds that “men under stress disconnect to regulate themselves...It’s not rejection. It’s his biology. It’s how he... See more

The need for romantic love is thus imagined as so deeply entrenched in the structures of feminine subjectivity that women desire nothing so much as to be safely ensconced in the institutions, marriage and family, that will secure it. As de Beauvoir describes the woman in search of love and marriage, “she chooses to want her enslavement so ardently... See more