Do ladies even feel a little bad for destroying romance?
Women feel no responsibility for anything they do, no matter how large or small that role. There was an article posted here the other day, but it's really an entire genre, about male loneliness. The author, a woman, concluded that yes, men are lonely, but it's because that in a world where men are now openly discriminated against in school and at work, causing them to fall behind in society, all due to the victory of feminist policies over the last 40 years, it's men's fault for not going to therapy and sharing their feelings. Also, women aren't attracted to men who go to therapy and share their feelings, but that's not women's fault, they don't owe you sex.
A long time ago, maybe 25 years ago or so, I observed that certain careers from which women were supposedly "excluded" required high focus and constant attention to logic, and moreover were full of the sorts of nerds who pretty much gave any woman who walked into a room anything she wanted, so one couldn't credibly blame men for keeping women out. It was not long after that I saw critical feminist & race theorist writers declare that mathematics, science, and logic were patriarchal, racist ideas. I scoffed at that.
In the intervening years, I have seen that in fact, women on the whole are incredibly bad at logic outside a carefully controlled classroom environment. In fact, quite a few women do very well in mathematics. But when it comes to actually arguing a point or taking a position, a woman generally seems to have tremendous difficulty actually using practical logic. She has trouble keeping different ideas connected, keeping a critical point in focus, maintaining a separation between whether something is true and how it affects her personally, or identifying whether two ideas are contradictory if they are both appealing to her somehow.
This wall of text is connected to what you said because women are completely unable to connect things like, "Government and corporate policy should accelerate women's earnings," and, "There aren't any men making 1.5x my income for me to marry." They want office romance to be extremely high-risk for the men, but for the men to pursue them anyway.
And it's not that they have an explanation for the contradiction, or that they feel anything about the contradiction, they utterly dumbfounded that anyone would see a contradiction here at all. They're all things that women want, that makes them not contradictory, the end.
