You guys should read up on Social Programming
I know some of you probably are aware of this, but if you understand how our culture programs its citizens it makes it really obvious why people act the way they do, and instead of getting mad about the situation you can feel some compassion towards them because of their sad existance and how limited they are.
Its not just women, its men too, although I think in the process of trying to become a DJ, a man automatically begins to become more aware of himself and how other people (women in the case of a DJ) act and how screwed up they are. Most people just are walking around in a haze and can't see what's right in front of them. I believe its our culture that creates these problems. A big problem in my mind is that we live in a society thats driving force is greed and how to get more money so I can buy the stuff I "need." In poorer countries they just don't have as much exposure to the constant messages to consume, because frankly companies can't profit as much from them so there's no economic benefit in advertising as much to them.
Here, I recommend that everyone who considers themselves open-minded or at least not ignorant read this:
http://www.anxietyculture.com/contents.htm
It is pretty easy to understand and does a good job of explaining why we feel the way we do and how a lot of other people feel the same way, so it's only natural to figure out what causes the consistency across people.
The beginning stage of seeing how the control system tries to influence you is that you start to pay attention to those around you and you start to notice that they are different from you (they being the average people that you see on TV and the people in real life who are like that). Life feels unfulfilling in that your sick of having to work some dumb job so long during the week just to make ends meet or maintain your lifestyle (depending on level of affluency) and allow you to pursue your dreams (assuming your dream isn't your job of course). Life also feels unfulfilling because our emotional needs aren't being met in a manner that makes us feel complete, satisfied, and content. Its a perpetuating cycle because our culture (or more tangibly the media) keeps telling us that the way to happiness involves buying something be it objects or be it medication to deal with our stresses and problems. Of course since these things cannot make us consistently happy throughout our lives we consistently feel the pressure to "improve" our life with some new product. Eventually you end up saying, "I can't keep this up. This is dumb. Why can't I be happy with my life? I know everyone is supposed to feel happy with their jobs but I've tried several and they all suck or don't pay well." You also run into emotional unfulfillment when you interact with women or other men and you find that you never have any satisfying conversations with the majority of the people you interact with, be it coworkers or shallow girls you date.
This is all pretty much what I went through and what I think a lot of people go through to varying extents even if they don't realize it. What happens is that you just feel that society is pushing you in a direction that contradicts with what your soul is telling you is the right thing to do. These could be economic pressures or emotional pressures, but you just feel as if you are going against the grain and things are harder than they need be.
There are two possible options that you can choose. One is that you can choose to accept what is presented to you an continue living in a manner that is unfulfilling. If you choose this you simply return back to "normal" life and live there for a while until you feel the same reactionary emotions and a choice between these two options emerges again. The second choice is that you actively try to figure out WHY you make the decisions you do, and WHY you feel the emotions you feel. You start to view things from a slightly removed vantage and you can see all the people in your life and how they say things or push you into feeling unhappy and you can see how earlier in your life you would react in some manner to try to fulfill it but it was really just a way for "the man" to get your money. For example, with most women, do you think that they are more intially attracted to a man with a nice car or a man with a beater? Obviously, we all want to think that women would care for who WE are on the inside and while some women only care for the actual person, most women to one extent or another grade you by how well you fit into what they consider to be the ideal man. In our society, people are bombarded with messages saying that the ideal man is strong, and Alpha. According to our culture, the end result in being the Alpha is that you are more successful and if you twist Darwin into a social context which is incredibly popular (although not a good adaptation of their principles) you will "see" that the Alpha is more successful at capitalism meaning he makes more money and is better able to provide for his family. It also means that he is always successful with the ladies and his career. He lives life to the fullest. He has great kids and he is partially resonsible for them being great. He is the guy in Men's Health or GQ or whatever magazine you want to read to improve your ranking compared to other males and thus make you more "successful".
Most people need to have a story to tell them how to live. If you take an "average" person and stick them on a deserted island with no material possessions but enough of the bare necessities required for sustinence, what are they going to do to pass the time? Sure, some of them are going to use their imagination and creativity to be productive for the sake of keeping the mind active, but most people aren't used to using their minds to entertain themselves. Most people watch TV, or surf the internet, or go snowmobiling or golfing or for women sitting in the kitchen and talking while the guys do the aforementioned. They are trying to find some task to distract themselves as a method of feeling complete as they pass the time. Maybe the drink some beer or take some drugs to help soften the edge on things and allow themselves to relax. I think most people if on the island will initially relax, but eventually you will feel bored and try to occupy your time with something, but since nothing material exists on the island you'll have to make it yourself. What are you going to make? A football? A TV? A jet ski? I'd say that most people could fabricate some simple technologies such as a cane pole or spear for fishing/hunting or a drum or other simple musical instrument, but nobody is making TVs or the Internet on the island. It just wouldn't be worth the effort. I think most people if left to their own devices for a long time (maybe a vacation that's too long or being unemployed for a while and being too poor to live lavishly while not working) eventually feel a stress from not having enough to do or that what they used to distract themselves wasn't fulfilling any more.
Why are they unable to make themselves happy? Haven't they been educated on how to live a happy lifestyle? Are they just really bad at being happy or are there some forces that are causing it?
The main things that happens is that you start to see the results, meaning what's screwed up with our society and all the problems in the world. What you are looking for is the underlying principles of what causes things to be the way they are. What is consistent across people of all cultures and how does culture influence different groups of people. In ignorant people, this can be seen when they say things like, "We need to keep the Japanese-Americans in camps so that they don't start another Pearl Harbor." Sure it looks dumb in hindsight that we would treat Americans like that just based on who their parents were and what their genes made them look like, but people still do it today. It's similar to how when a large group of young minority men dress like they see on tv, people who don't know them well may see them as thugs. Maybe they "know" that they shouldn't be afraid of them or label them like that, but they still "feel" like that. What causes that to happen?
It's like science. Initially mankind knew nothing of gravity. They did know that when the apple falls out of the tree it heads to the ground, but they didn't know why it happened. It wasn't even until relatively recent that people started to even think about WHY it fell to the ground in the first place or even that it was interesting that it fell to the ground at all. So you have the end result and you try to find the patterns of how objects interact with each other. In our case we now "know" that the apple will fall to the earth with a constant acceleration of roughly 9.81 m/s^2. We know that there is this force called gravity and that the only reason apple moved at all was because of the unbalanced forces applied to the apple, meaning gravity was stronger than whatever was previously holding it up (or the lack of it supporting it anymore). We are looking for trying to find the consistencies in our lives and isolating the factors that lead to certain outcomes. We are trying to figure out what the "forces" are.