You're blaming third wave feminism, which is narrow minded and stupid too.

It's not like feminists just decided to pull that out of their asses for no reason. Your blanket statement shows you believe that to be the case.

You're failing to realize marriage itself has changed. As much as you might like it to be, its NOT just a piece of paper.

I'd be willing to bet that you could track the decline of marriage I've other options with policies and ideologies that made marriage more onerous for women like the rise in complimentarian doctrine and the foolishness of purity culture here in the states; access to the Financial Enterprise in other countries, etc.

You're entitled to your beliefs and your opinions of course, as an atheist a marriage license doesn't have an spiritual weight to you, as I said.

But, it is incredibly reductive of YOU to assume that same dynamic with hold true to people who are religious or live in deeply religious cultures/subcultures.

When feminists say, "it's just a piece of paper" you need to understand they are rejecting Ephesians 5:22-33. They're saying they don't want love to be a boot on their neck.