And as long as men are proposers and women are accepters, this means that women want men who are relentless in pursuing them, and men want women who relentlessly evade them. (Something like the Cary Grant/Katherine Hepburn dynamic.)
I think you’ve hit upon the root of the problem; like the other phenomena you mention, the strength of the trend seems to be diminishing.
I think you’ve hit upon the root of the problem; like the other phenomena you mention, the strength of the trend seems to be diminishing.