We Don't Want Men's F*cking Money
We're dating, we're not mining for gold. Relax.
Welcome to Cheaper Than Therapy, a newsletter by Shani Silver.
In recent weeks, I’ve been slightly less filtered when it comes to my frustrations with the de-evolution of dating culture. I no longer have it in me to ignore and rise above a population of poisoned internet men who have been brainwashed into believing that women are the enemy, while simultaneously desiring sex and domestic services from those same women. Women who are of course permanently under the age of 25 regardless of how old men themselves happen to be. Somewhere on our unchecked internet, a cauldron of toxic gruel rolled to a boil, and instead of going to therapy, men lapped it up. While there are countless consequences of this sickening reality, most of which do nothing more than prevent people of every gender from finding companionship, I need to speak to one specific, counterproductive aspect of modern dating culture before it eats me alive.
The minds of imaginarily oppressed men have fused together the genuine feminine pursuit of romantic company with the plot of a 2007 bank heist blockbuster film. To them, women have become tricksters, hellbent on deceiving hardworking, righteous male souls who want nothing more than a “good woman.” They lost the notion of two people giving each other the chance to develop romantic feelings and started assuming that one was exclusively trying to take advantage of the other. The podcasting bro communities of the world convinced single men that women are con artists, while podcasters themselves are actually con artists, poisoning the minds of men and getting paid vast sums of advertising dollars to do it. Rich men convince men of perfectly normal means that women are greedy liars and the end result is a planet full of lonely people. The men who clamor for each new episode will never look into how much money those podcasters make, but they will damn sure judge a woman for the cost of her martini.