I truly don't understand how more men aren't made aware just how bad of a deal marriage truly is in the West. I think someone should write out a professional-looking business contract for a business partnership, but in actuality it would describe exactly the marriage conditions in countries like the US. Then you would present the contract and ask random men if they would sign it.
I'll wager that 100% - or very close to it - would refuse to sign it. Then you reveal that this is, in fact, a contract that outlines exactly what a marriage is and watch them get instantly black pilled on Western marriage.
Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I think it’s probably a few things:
1) A ton of men are bluepilled due to a literal lifetime of top down propaganda and indoctrination training them against their own interests and drilling a false worldview into their minds in their youth.
2) Tying into 1 if you are a guy who talks about number 1 in public or vocally pushes back in Uni lectures or class or in friend groups or even in family you will be beat down into the ground shamed and humiliated for daring to challenge the status quo — it’s basically always the same strategy too where the majority just calls you isms and phobes and otherwise attacks your character/calls you a misogynist who hates women or who’s a virgin who can’t laid etc etc you know the drill. This leads most men to keep their mouth shut even if they notice and most people have a strong desire to fit in.
3) There is a huge amount of pressure from family and from guy’s girlfriends and even from people like your Boomer boss where basically everyone else in society is pushing young men to get married — and they’re doing this despite it really being a very obvious bad deal for the guys when you look long form and consider the outcomes (and also the ridiculous cost of weddings up front for that matter). For the work one boomer bosses tend to look down on guys with girlfriends and not wives, you can’t use company insurance for a gf it has to be a wife, basically the older generations disrespect young men who date without getting married and this bias is pretty strong from what I’ve seen.
4) We all know women have a lot of options at any given time — I’ve talked to Chad lites I’ve worked with before where they don’t want to get married but if they don’t their long time gf will leave them or both of their families are upset by their not being married that kinda thing. It’s pretty sick to be honest — it would be fine if the laws weren’t so fucked and if divorce courts weren’t so fucked and if men weren’t the ones doing way more financially and in terms of their blood sweat and tears to carry the marriages (women will vehemently fail against that statement but they’re wrong when you look at the big picture — being a stay at home mom is way easier than working a soul crushing 9 to 5 unless you’re one of the lucky with an easy/cushy job — also men’s jobs tend to be the dirty shitty ones whereas women’s jobs tend to be fake bullshit like HR).
What’s really nutty as an aside observation is that even rather good looking archetypal dudes I’ve worked with in the recent past are very very obviously trading down when I see their girlfriends. Eg the guy makes way more money at a harder job, has a higher status, and is better looking on scale compared to their girlfriend — or their girlfriend will be like 7 years older than them, weird shit like that. Things have gotten broken and out of wack in the dating landscape that I have no idea how the guys are gonna be happy in those relationships.