There's a lot of truth in the way technology has made the sexes less reliant on each other.

One layer I'd add is that some of the independence is less reality and more illusion. The single man might not need a woman to cook for him, but he probably still relies on women (or men) to do a lot of his cooking. It's just abstracted away from a wife at home who doesn't get paid in money, to cooks and Door dash drivers who he can just pay as a one off service. The single mom might not need a man to grow her food in the form of a husband on the farm, but it's still a man somewhere growing that food, and a man paying the taxes to provide the food stamps she uses to buy that food. Since men are net tax payers over their lifetime and women are net tax receivers, there a lot of support still happening, just in an abstracted way that's not transparent.

I don't know if there's a solution, but I do know that if there isn't and demographic collapse continues its trajectory, the complex civilization we have that allows this illusionary "independence" will collapse, and men and women will go back to depending on each other for basic necessities of life.

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