I’m thinking of “Calvin and Hobbes” and the wonderful game of CalvinBall. In that game, each player can make up any rule at any time. It’s joyful chaos.
What we have in the dating world is one-sided CalvinBall. The women make up all the rules. Alpha males can get dates and do a little flirting. Betas are predators and harassers. If things don’t work out, maybe the man goes to jail (”rape! rape!”) or the woman gets the house, the boat, the kids, and half his money.
None of this ever seems to go the man’s way.
Which is one major reason there is so much work being done in the area of sex robots. See, if men don’t like the rules of the game, we can always decide not to play the game.
And I can tell you I know a lot of single men who are quite happy. No game? No worries. But single women? Pretty much 100% bitter, angry people who feel that they missed out on all the good stuff. But that’s what you get for making up rules for a game that no one wants to play.
” See, if men don’t like the rules of the game, we can always decide not to play the game.”
Often the case when a man marries a woman from the Orient.