Most women DO revel in being feminine. It’s good for the men, it’s good for the women.
You must be around my age (50) if you are an ex-Berkley lib.
I have found that many professional class women today need validation more than anything and eschew the sort of femininity I took for granted in women as a boy.
I was raised in the Deep South and now live in Nashville after decades abroad and here it is different.
Many well off women here are strident and expect their husband’s to be submissive. I see this a lot.
Bobbed hair at 30. Prematurely gray. No makeup. Plain clothing......even on otherwise attractive women.
Granted...there are places much different....southern California, Dallas, the Deep South, Miami....
it’s a far different world than I remember in the 60s and 70s of my youth
in my social circles I’m considered a misogynist at worst or a chauvinist at best
I first noticed this trend in the 80s in Manhattan.
Thanks for the perspective of a freeper woman