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The thread has a subject that is very relevant, but the poll sullies the importance of discussing this issue by being very one-sided in it's choices (aside from Other of course).
There are plenty of other reasons men give up on pursuing women that don't involve men being the victim of society or women.
I think dating apps and social media has had a big (mostly negative) influence on courtship. Before these tools, men met women through (gasp) real life. Now, status and how nice a pic looks or how funny a handle's description is dictates how datable a guy is instead of the content of his character.
Also, I think modern feminism has had some pitfalls. Mostly, it's a good thing (the equality of genders), but like any movement, extremists exist. Feminism is almost as bad a word as social justice warrior (who would think those words describe someone bad, but that's the state we're in). Again, a lot of that is due to social media and the information we get online in 140 characters or less by an extremist minority versus being educated and well informed on the actual movements through other sources. So when we see people spouting feminism as a mask for man hate, we conflate the two even though those two things aren't synonymous.