Even the slightest uptick in women refraining from heterosexual partnership is enough to trigger the patriarchal defence system because heterosexual partnership is an effective killer of female radicalism. Romance is a liberal institution masquerading as an apolitical instinct.
The phenomenon of women watering down their feminism to sustain their heterosexual relationship cannot be addressed if we remain unwilling to deconstruct romance. That there is an exceptional relationship born out of sexual attraction and consecrated through compromise