Explaining capitalism's effect on datingfrom @_glassmuseum

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Capitalism is ruining your sex life. You might have deleted Hinge, but you can't escape the abysmal state of the modern heterosexual dating landscape. Spend five minutes online looking at straight relationship advice, and you'll no doubt run into a plethora of guys complaining about girls being gold diggers and girls complaining about broke guys. Let's make them clear though is that economics are a substantial factor shaping heterosexual relationship dynamics. But the problem isn't necessarily the people looking for love under these conditions, it's the system that commodifies love in the first place. In tier book why women have better sex under socialism, author Kristen Gazzi argues that capitalism transactionalizes love by tying women's economic security to romantic partnership. Under capitalism, women are structurally disadvantaged in the labor market. With their labor generally perceived as less valuable since employers know that there's always a possibility that they may eventually become mothers. As tier free market limits their involvement through policies like paid parental leave, universal childcare, and other family supports, many women are forced to choose between having a career or a family. And obviously, this isn't to say that there aren't women who do both, it's just that capitalism makes it much harder. Better than supporting caregiving collectively, capitalism privatizes it within the family. Childcare, domestic labor, elder care, all become unpaid responsibilities performed overwhelmingly by women.