The decline in the marriage rate lies in the objectification of people by capital

Mondo Social Updated on 2024-01-31

Two hundred years ago, women were not human, and many young men at the bottom could not marry wives because of poverty. The increase in population does not depend on getting married and having children at the bottom, but by those who have the money to get married and can afford to raise them. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, large-scale public ownership was implemented, monogamy was established, and equality between men and women was advocated. The problem of the much-criticized sky-high bride price is precisely the manifestation of the decline in the status of women with the rise of the market economy after the reform, which belongs to the objectification of women, making marriage closer and closer to long-term and long-term. 2023 turn the page Men use sky-high bride prices to buy out a woman's future sexual resources, reproductive resources, and housework resources, if the woman cheats, does not do or rarely does housework, and is unwilling to have children during the marriage process, the man's whole family will have a sense of being deceived as if buying a fake. And the woman, knowing that marriage and childbirth will bring unpaid labor, physical injury, and obstacles to her personal career path, naturally hopes to offset the risks that will almost inevitably occur in the future with a bride price before marriage, otherwise taking such a big risk to marry a man who has nothing is tantamount to venture capital + charity.

To sum up, when marriage becomes a business negotiation, then scheming and negotiation will become the norm, because both men and women and the families behind them will fight for their own interests. The antagonism between men and women is not a woman's right, but a regression of women's status, and women's rights are not truly protected. The extreme alienation of the individual by capitalism has reduced women to a walking two-legged womb, men to living ATMs, and the woman's family's consideration of the bride price is essentially the same as everyone's consideration of wages in the workplace.

Women want to be regarded as "people", but in the thousands of years of human civilization, whether they are portrayed as goddesses or slandered as **, women are either gods or demons, and they have never been human beings under the sun. The biggest confusion for women is that they have not been treated as "people", so women do not know how to be people, we follow the words left by our predecessors in the pile of old papers, we will definitely go the wrong way, just like modern Chinese history, in countless trial and error to try the right one.

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