It doesn't. I am well read in feminist literature.

There's a difference between what is actually said and what men like Max choose to 'hear'.

For example, feminist literature does not blame men or Patriarchy for each individual woman not finding a husband but it might recognize that social pressure to be married is not in women's best interests and will ultimately lead to you being dissatiafied in that marriage.

Shouldn't be a shocker. Social pressure can make you do things you regret, or go about them in ways you later regret.

If you're getting married just to be married, just to have a ring on your finger for status, or because 'society' has laid that out as valuable....

You're getting married for the wrong reasons. You're doing yourself a disservice. You're doing your future children a disservice. And there's someone else involved in that marriage that you are doing a disservice to--the partner.

Feminism recognizes that and challenges women to not be that Slacker. This benefits them, obviously, those future children, clearly, but it also benefits men.

Nobody likes being 2nd string, what got settled for, the consolation prize, the participation trophy, etc.

As long as marriage is both pushed and perceived by 'society' as a means or acquiring status, then that's what happens. We commodify each other in different ways.

That's not a good reason to marry. It does more harm than good. It does not result in strong families or networks of support.

It makes marriage an ordeal that must be survived. It makes marriage a competition where one partner is trying to outcompete the other for control of time and resources when the two should be working collaboratively to harmonically amplify each other's reach, energy, focus, strength, and time.

I learned that because I took engineering precursor classes and women's studies because, as it turns out, college is pay to play. You can take as many classes as you can pay for, as there's room for, and that you're interested in, and someone signs off on. Doesn't even matter what your major is.

You can even audit and sometimes, you can even sit in on lectures, again, provided there's room and the professor doesn't mind.

Some colleges, like MIT make their coursework available, for free, online and if you email them with questions.....they'll usually answer.

So that must not be why there aren't more women engineers. Must be something else.

Imagine working with Max though. Having to deal with that attitude day in and day out. Now imagine a whole dept of Maxes. Does that seem like where you want to spend 8+ hrs a day, 5+ days a week, for the next 45+ years of your life?

Does that seem like an inviting and pleasant way to spend such a huge block of your life? Will you be proud of that in 50 years?

Do you just like the idea of having ulcers?

Maybe that's it. Maybe that's why. Ya think?