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@Stahesh >the lowest paid people in the countrt are essential to its functioning

Sort of. Those were the people the government selected as being essential, while many jobs were artificially barred from being done to their full capacity. Just because you do not need a product or service every day does not mean it is not essential. I recall we had a chip shortage during that time, making cars way more expensive.

We do have many useless jobs due to bureaucratic requirements though.

The most recent factor in all of this is the overall lack of pushback. When these story ideas are not properly challenged, it does not allow for much real refinement.

This lack of pushback only serves to embolden the egos of these women in storytelling media. Only when money is lost from these bad ideas do they finally see consequences from their failure.

A lot of women who are in charge of storytelling do not understand what it means to struggle. Not in the sense that failure has grave consequences. Many women are insulated by the consequences of failure, which makes it so that when they have to conceptualize a story, they draw from the experience of "I am so awesome and everyone needs to realize it" instead of one that comes from genuine struggle.

This makes both the storytelling and the characters bad. There is no real challenges for Mary Sue because she can do everything effortlessly. She just has to realize it and tell all the naysayers that they are wrong and she is great.

This makes for a boring story and is really getting tiresome (e.g. Captain Marvel, Star Wars 7-9). Stories are better when the character has real struggles to overcome.

I suspect that the increase in Mary Sue characters in media is the result of a perfect storm of females lacking the understanding of what it means to struggle in order to earn (what men regularly experience) as well as a major lack of pushback in today's academic and corporate world.

Thus, we get story telling about female characters who are always just so amazing at everything and the only "conflict" they have is the Patriarchy holding them back from being awesome.

@ToyotaTime Men do not ask women to put on makeup, especially not to the extent this woman puts in on.

And besides, the reason men are not wanting to pay on the date is because there are too many women who do not adhere to their proper role in this courtship dynamic (as many women have abandoned traditional values), as well as the women who are only looking for a free meal with men they never intended to even consider a prospect for dating.

@Pain66 Yeah, this won't result in men just putting in no effort and/or having this system bankrupt in no time at all when women's demand for more luxury beyond just healthcare services (based on their "unique living arangements" becoming an ever increasing cost).

Men need to have skin in the game for them to work hard. This is just a system that makes the already strained issue with men having no stake in society become even worse.