[colinwilyb]

I made a summary of your points:

1. Tell women how to live.

2. Take away personal agency.

3. Tar and feather anyone who supports gender beyond 'male' and 'female'.

4. Tell women how to live.

5. No pornography.

6. Financial incentives for large families. (Which, based on #4, also removes women from many long term careers.)

[realjhol]

1. Women are not happy with the current arrangement - that's the point of this article. They have power to create change by demanding men raise their game. If they wish to.

2. If you make a public promise to stay with someone "'til death do you part" - that's your agency. Noone is forcing you to make these promises.

3. Feminists have cast the relations between men and women as a pseudo-marxist class struggle. The sexes shouldn't war with one anothers. We are partners in a common struggle.

4. Very few women have the option to take on full time motherhood. My wife and I are lucky, because my income is pretty good. Most women don't have that choice. Modernity has robbed women of this opportunity, and now sells their misery back to them as empowerment.

5. Indeed. It is extremely corrosive to relations between the sexes. The government can step in and protect the people, in the same way as health and safety laws are there to protect people from harm.

6. Women are currently heavily penalised for having large families.

We're here commenting on an article about a study that shows that the institution of marriage has been badly damaged, and it is emiserating people.

If you would like to, you can offer some suggestions on how to fix this. You can either be part of the problem, or part of the solution.

It doesn't have to be this way. What's your solution?

[timbit42]

Increase minimum wage to $45/hr to match the loss in increased wages over the past 40 years. Then wives will have the choice whether to work or not because one person will be able to make enough for them, their spouse and children to live.