Advice from the old lady:
I agree with
@Manure Spherian to a large degree, especially about the parenting culture affecting young men. My son is a "real man" in every sense of the word.
And his father & I were divorced, after a backwards arrangement (wife as breadwinner, husband as house spouse) compared to traditional gender roles.
One of the key reasons I divorced my first husband was I didn't like being the enabler of his ongoing depression & laziness, but even more than that I was seriously concerned about the relationship template our children were seeing/learning/absorbing.
Because of the relationship template concern, I got my son around my father and one of my brother in laws as much as possible, and I enrolled my son in an all boys military preparatory school. My ex husband is a loving father whose own father was a solid "real man" but he died tragically when my first husband was 12, and he was raised himself by a single widow who had great morals & character, but who didn't require discipline, achievement or the like because she pitied her fatherless son. Pity by the parent equates to self pity in the child. Not Good.
Knowing all that I put my son in the best environment I could where he could learn manhood from "real men", and I also knew I am not a man myself and there are certain things he needed to learn from masculine men. He also chose a kind nurturing woman for a wife, a woman much like his widowed grandmother.
My daughters have struggled a bit. They are insightful kind people with character, but have a more androgynous vibe than I like. The older one is embracing her feminine energy more in her early 20s, but its been interesting because I've historically had to assume roles that are typically associated with masculine energy over the years to acquire wealth and assure the family is taken care of.
This is deeply subconscious programming. Children are very affected by the parental dynamic.
As to black pill? Women are not limited (at least in the west), and can get educated and cultivate intelligence and achievement just as men can. More women now are enrolled in higher education in the US now than men.
So its not all about looks and attitude for women. Lots of men like these "strong women". But often these men underestimate them and end up in a weak position in relationship.
So I'd say men are more giving up and this requires women to step up, which further complicates and continues this backward dynamic.
Men have to be men. That means seeking, hunting, initiating. I cringe when I see all the posts around here for example expecting women to chase, initiate and overtly make her interest known. OMG. Wrong dynamic!
Never expect women who chase you to suddenly relinguish the masculine hunter energy and become feminine & demure. That is NOT the dynamic you pre-selected!!