I know it's not your fault, it's a widely spread and well known metaphor, but GOD this has a rant incoming...

I HATE the whole entire concept of "a dating market".

You're not haggling over the price of a steer, you're human beings trying to figure out if you'd like to share your lives together... I seriously wish we could move beyond treating it as something so one dimensional and transactional as "a market".

ESPECIALLY because many of the (mostly men) who use this metaphor are using it to value women based on essentially how pliant and fuckable she is, and show EXTREMELY low self awareness of their own value when evaluated by women. Then they get very offended when women do the same evaluation on them and find their value lacking.

This whole concept has gotten turbocharged in recent years by the whole incel manosphere alpha beta sigma bullshittery all because these absolute cockwombles believe that Actual Human Beings Who Choose Whether Or Not To Spend Time With You are a commodity to be bought and sold. That anything is fair game to use tricks to get them to lower their price or to inflate your value, and manipulate it so you can "win" at the dating market.

And then these fuckers wonder why they can't get a girlfriend to stick around. Or how when eventually their mask slips she divorces them. And then they sit around with their other toxic incel shits and blame women because they went into the whole idea of dating thinking they could trick their way into finding someone who would make them happy because she was "high value", despite being pathetic sad broken men who need a goddamn therapist before they can face making romantic human connections since apparently society did fuck all to teach boys about how to be human beings.

@notsoloud @Serenus @NosirrahSec