@First-light The challenge to a democratic solution is we live in a balkanized society: Foreign born/2nd generation men will tend to vote Democrat and feminist for tribal affiliations. Not only that, but our own oligarchs such as Musk regard us as "losers" and chattel and would happily replace us and ignore the feminized society in the interest of corporate profit.

Ironically, the women's vote has resulted in women being dupes for the same Patriarchy that the feminists claimed to tear down: the wealthy industrialists wanted to lower the cost of labor AND need for goods so women entering the workforce did well for that. As full dupes, such as in Sweden, the feminists make excuses for Islamist culture. I've even seen American feminists tow the party line on that.

There is a break in the ranks with the feminists such as the TERFs who are angry that trans-women are being treated EQUAL to women showing their "we only want equality" was a ruse all along.

@woodsmoke Consider that a little over a century ago, back when women were "oppressed", they were expected to "chase" men much in the same way that PUA Game teaches men today: They networked, learned how to open conversations with men, had a goal towards marriage (not "having fun" or "finding themselves"). Trad-fems would later consider women who were like this as "pick mes" or "desperate". My maternal grandmother back in 1925 had a sister who broke off an engagement so... she grabbed the guy for herself!

This nation of ambivalent and passive-aggressive waiting for men to "wow" them and pass their little tests slowly emerged over the generations. My mother was proud she only gave my father her first and last name and made him look up her phone number if a book. Over time, even "nice" women we regard today were raised to treat men like dogs to perform tricks.

Eff Dee Ess has a point we should pick up on: We need to adopt (reasonable) standards that, by themselves, make us valuable. Men who set standards show leadership that women crave but also raise the bar for how men should be treated. It also means that women who crave men to "lead" (abdicate responsibility) should accept the burden of being a follower: That the man's opinion should be respected by default because he EARNED it.

It's not a paradox to say that men need to lead our way out of this, but that also means we need to hold women to higher standards. Women who have reasonable standards can easily find a decent husband if she puts in a fraction of the work that men do.