I’m sorry, I’m so sick of the Dubaification of America. It used to be that men with the means to drive a Porsche would brag about driving a 2003 Honda Civic and DIY things they could have easily outsourced. Women were at least expected to pretend they didn’t care about a man’s money, and to have some pioneer spirit of “we can build together.” These weirdos on social media have not only undermined those much healthier attitudes, they have warped everyone’s expectations in all aspects of life. I find this especially appalling when it comes to dating, because this BS actively impedes men and women from pairing off and starting families. These days—I don’t mean to sound like a total MRA incel—I feel like I regularly hear otherwise normal, educated women saying insane things about filtering for a man’s money and status that would have been gauche to admit even just a few years ago. It’s the sort of stuff that I previously only heard ethnic aunties say when they were arranging marriages for their children or friend’s children and finding suitors. I think we lose something very special about America when we promote this sort of thing and idk it just makes me sad at this point.