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[valleyrogue]

49. Your marriage is irrelevant to the discussion.

The truth is the truth. It IS a form of prostitution. It is the flip side of prostitution. The only difference is in degree. How do you explain marriages with children, with dowries, with mail order brides, with impoverishing women by men hoarding resources so that they have to sell themselves to the highest bidder? How do you explain away an economic system that is rigged against women for the simple reason that to starve women economically makes it easier for men to gain sexual access?

The fact is men will not marry women unless they get sexual access to women. The legal bennies come with a price for women, which is they must trade their bodies to get everything materially. That is how the great majority of women become "homeowners." That is how marriage is still the major means of upward mobility for women. It is purely transactional. Most men worldwide think this way of women, and if that upsets you, so be it. That is the mentality of the men who voted for Trump. Women are objects for sexual access and reproduction. That is all they are "for."

You don't want to hear the truth. I get it, it is extremely uncomfortable, but marriage needs to die out. I suspect in the next 100 years, it will die out in the West.