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When you actually look at heterosexual romantic relationships from an objective perspective, you see the love is completely one-sided. I'll break down romantic love into three components: romance, intimacy, and support.
Romance is obviously very one-sided. In a relationship between a man and a woman, he is the one that sweeps her off her feet and partakes in elaborate courtship rituals to impress her—from initiating the relationship, to planning dates, to initiating and taking control of intimacy, to making grand gestures of romance. Her role is to just sit back, relax, and enjoy, with the only expected reciprocation being appreciation and enthusiasm (but in reality, it's often not even that). Crudely, romance is something created by the man and consumed by the woman.
Now let's look at support. The man physically supports the woman, i.e. "provide and protect" for her; the woman just receives the support and makes no equivalent reciprocation. The man also emotionally supports her and is her "rock," who will always comfort her, understand her, and be there for her during her lowest and most vulnerable times. But the second the man shows a sign of weakness, expresses emotional vulnerability in a non-masculine way, or experiences hardship in a non-masculine way (e.g. job loss, mental issues), the woman's attraction fades and she checks out of the relationship.
Using the bastardized feminist definition of "emotional labor," the man is responsible for performing an immense amount of emotional labor for the benefit of the woman, but the moment reciprocation is asked for, suddenly she is "not his therapist" and he "isn't entitled" to her emotional labor.
Finally, consider intimacy, which goes hand-in-hand with support to an extent. The woman is free to be completely herself in the relationship and spill all her deepest secrets to the man, who'll find it endearing and romantic that she fully opens up and shows her true self to him. But the man? He must always keep the mask on in the woman's presence, confined by the masculine idealization of himself that she really fell in love with. One misstep, one faux pas or secret too far, and it's over.
So, as we can see, romance, intimacy, and support—the core aspects of romantic (as opposed to familial or dutiful) love—are all completely one-sided in heterosexual relationships. In heterosexual relationships, romantic love is provided by the man but not reciprocated by the woman.
But it turns out, women are perfectly capable of providing intimacy and support (and even romance, albeit to a lesser extent), and one only needs to look at close female friendships for the quintessential example. Here is an excerpt from a comment by a self-proclaimed "girl's girl" that I found very enlightening:
"I also support my [female] friends. I don't harbor jealousy towards them, I don't compete with them, I celebrate their wins, and I support and grieve their losses with them. I show interest in their lives. I keep their secrets and I tell them mine. I develop really emotionally intimate relationships with them. They are the light of my life. I tell them all the time, 'you make the sun rise.'"
Replace "friends" with "boyfriend," and this is the description of every man's dream relationship—one in which intimacy and support is reciprocal. But that's why it's a dream, because all but a select few extremely lucky men will never experience anything close to this. Even within a relationship, it's quite common for women to still prioritize their female friends before their boyfriend/husband and for them to defer to their female friend group to a far greater extent than their partner.
But I digress—the point is that it's quite an interesting phenomenon that in close female friendships, we see women show to each other genuine, reciprocal love, while women don't show anything close to this kind of reciprocation in romantic relationships. There's another discussion to have on why this is the case, but it's clear that heterosexual women are, by far and large, homoromantic.
Men date women for love, intimacy, and companionship, while women only date men for social status and resources.
Now let me elaborate further. The core foundation of a relationship is that both partners provide each other with companionship, physical and emotional intimacy, support, attention, validation, and sex. And what men dream of is a relationship in which both partners enthusiastically provide these things for each other.
On the other hand, let's consider a modern woman. She has her female friends for companionship, support, and emotional intimacy; and unlike male friendships, these female friendships are very close, very strong, and very intimate, often to the point of mimicking an asexual lesbian relationship. Moreover, the woman has a rotation of hot guys from Tinder for when she wants sex, and a roster of FWBs for when she wants touch and physical intimacy. She gets endless validation from her female friends and from social media, and unlimited attention from the hordes of simps in her DMs and hundreds of men that approach her in real life.
So what on earth does she need a man for, that she couldn't find when single? The answer is: social status and resources. Now, of course, she'll have to be attracted to the man, since usually relationships involve sex and intimacy, but that's not what she's really getting out of it.
As a man in a relationship, you're primarily a disposable accessory your girlfriend wears on her arm to impress her friends. Beyond that, your only purpose is to provide her with resources and fund her lifestyle.
Now, of course, some men who fulfill the "status boost" role very well don't need to fulfill the "resource provider" role. But the aforementioned generalization is the reason why in relationships, usually the woman is the prize and the man is disposable. It's also why women have such insane hypergamous standards—because without meeting the bar to impress her friends and boost her social status, she has absolutely no reason to date you.
Think about it, straight women will always admit a woman is attractive; however, they would rarely say a man is attractive. Whenever you go to the club, women will always sit on another woman’s lap before they sit on a man’s lap. Women will always say sexual things to each other but never to a man. I even heard women say they are not attracted to men’s bodies and will say a woman’s body is more appealing. Even when it comes to dating, I never heard a woman desperate to be in a relationship with a man. If a woman was to remain single forever, I’m sure she wouldn’t care.
Comparing men and women is like comparing a bear and a shark. We live in completely different realities.
Men are born on level 1 and women are born on level 2. Our outlook in dating is fundamentally different because we play with different rules.
The vast majority of men live in an endless battle between acquiring quality and quantity sex. Women, on the other hand, inherently know they can get any man to have sex with them if presented the opportunity. They do not value sex the way men do. One of the key aspects of value is scarcity, and since sex is not scarce for them, it doesn’t hold the same significance. Instead, they put more value on acquiring wealth and social validation. This is why women tend to prioritize social standing and financial stability over physical attraction in long-term relationships.
It’s a common meme in the LGBT community that straight women don’t even seem to like men. If straight women aren’t even truly attracted to men, then why be straight at all?
Romance is obviously very one-sided. In a relationship between a man and a woman, he is the one that sweeps her off her feet and partakes in elaborate courtship rituals to impress her—from initiating the relationship, to planning dates, to initiating and taking control of intimacy, to making grand gestures of romance. Her role is to just sit back, relax, and enjoy, with the only expected reciprocation being appreciation and enthusiasm (but in reality, it's often not even that). Crudely, romance is something created by the man and consumed by the woman.
Now let's look at support. The man physically supports the woman, i.e. "provide and protect" for her; the woman just receives the support and makes no equivalent reciprocation. The man also emotionally supports her and is her "rock," who will always comfort her, understand her, and be there for her during her lowest and most vulnerable times. But the second the man shows a sign of weakness, expresses emotional vulnerability in a non-masculine way, or experiences hardship in a non-masculine way (e.g. job loss, mental issues), the woman's attraction fades and she checks out of the relationship.
Using the bastardized feminist definition of "emotional labor," the man is responsible for performing an immense amount of emotional labor for the benefit of the woman, but the moment reciprocation is asked for, suddenly she is "not his therapist" and he "isn't entitled" to her emotional labor.
Finally, consider intimacy, which goes hand-in-hand with support to an extent. The woman is free to be completely herself in the relationship and spill all her deepest secrets to the man, who'll find it endearing and romantic that she fully opens up and shows her true self to him. But the man? He must always keep the mask on in the woman's presence, confined by the masculine idealization of himself that she really fell in love with. One misstep, one faux pas or secret too far, and it's over.
So, as we can see, romance, intimacy, and support—the core aspects of romantic (as opposed to familial or dutiful) love—are all completely one-sided in heterosexual relationships. In heterosexual relationships, romantic love is provided by the man but not reciprocated by the woman.
But it turns out, women are perfectly capable of providing intimacy and support (and even romance, albeit to a lesser extent), and one only needs to look at close female friendships for the quintessential example. Here is an excerpt from a comment by a self-proclaimed "girl's girl" that I found very enlightening:
"I also support my [female] friends. I don't harbor jealousy towards them, I don't compete with them, I celebrate their wins, and I support and grieve their losses with them. I show interest in their lives. I keep their secrets and I tell them mine. I develop really emotionally intimate relationships with them. They are the light of my life. I tell them all the time, 'you make the sun rise.'"
Replace "friends" with "boyfriend," and this is the description of every man's dream relationship—one in which intimacy and support is reciprocal. But that's why it's a dream, because all but a select few extremely lucky men will never experience anything close to this. Even within a relationship, it's quite common for women to still prioritize their female friends before their boyfriend/husband and for them to defer to their female friend group to a far greater extent than their partner.
But I digress—the point is that it's quite an interesting phenomenon that in close female friendships, we see women show to each other genuine, reciprocal love, while women don't show anything close to this kind of reciprocation in romantic relationships. There's another discussion to have on why this is the case, but it's clear that heterosexual women are, by far and large, homoromantic.
Men date women for love, intimacy, and companionship, while women only date men for social status and resources.
Now let me elaborate further. The core foundation of a relationship is that both partners provide each other with companionship, physical and emotional intimacy, support, attention, validation, and sex. And what men dream of is a relationship in which both partners enthusiastically provide these things for each other.
On the other hand, let's consider a modern woman. She has her female friends for companionship, support, and emotional intimacy; and unlike male friendships, these female friendships are very close, very strong, and very intimate, often to the point of mimicking an asexual lesbian relationship. Moreover, the woman has a rotation of hot guys from Tinder for when she wants sex, and a roster of FWBs for when she wants touch and physical intimacy. She gets endless validation from her female friends and from social media, and unlimited attention from the hordes of simps in her DMs and hundreds of men that approach her in real life.
So what on earth does she need a man for, that she couldn't find when single? The answer is: social status and resources. Now, of course, she'll have to be attracted to the man, since usually relationships involve sex and intimacy, but that's not what she's really getting out of it.
As a man in a relationship, you're primarily a disposable accessory your girlfriend wears on her arm to impress her friends. Beyond that, your only purpose is to provide her with resources and fund her lifestyle.
Now, of course, some men who fulfill the "status boost" role very well don't need to fulfill the "resource provider" role. But the aforementioned generalization is the reason why in relationships, usually the woman is the prize and the man is disposable. It's also why women have such insane hypergamous standards—because without meeting the bar to impress her friends and boost her social status, she has absolutely no reason to date you.
Think about it, straight women will always admit a woman is attractive; however, they would rarely say a man is attractive. Whenever you go to the club, women will always sit on another woman’s lap before they sit on a man’s lap. Women will always say sexual things to each other but never to a man. I even heard women say they are not attracted to men’s bodies and will say a woman’s body is more appealing. Even when it comes to dating, I never heard a woman desperate to be in a relationship with a man. If a woman was to remain single forever, I’m sure she wouldn’t care.
Comparing men and women is like comparing a bear and a shark. We live in completely different realities.
Men are born on level 1 and women are born on level 2. Our outlook in dating is fundamentally different because we play with different rules.
The vast majority of men live in an endless battle between acquiring quality and quantity sex. Women, on the other hand, inherently know they can get any man to have sex with them if presented the opportunity. They do not value sex the way men do. One of the key aspects of value is scarcity, and since sex is not scarce for them, it doesn’t hold the same significance. Instead, they put more value on acquiring wealth and social validation. This is why women tend to prioritize social standing and financial stability over physical attraction in long-term relationships.
It’s a common meme in the LGBT community that straight women don’t even seem to like men. If straight women aren’t even truly attracted to men, then why be straight at all?