Yup, I know it's come up pretty frequently of late, but traditional marriage was still a raw deal for men.
I remember a few years ago there was this rockabilly/hipster-chick I saw briefly. And she was selling herself to me as this horny hipster housewife. She had this vision of herself as a full-time housewife, doing all the housewifey things, i.e. cooking, cleaning, looking pretty for me, blowing me at the end of the day. She'd do a bit of seamstressing from home, but I'd basically be supporting both of us in this little fantasy. And I thought about this quite a bit, because no girl had ever offered me anything like that, but I decided that although novel, it was still a pretty sh!tty deal. I don't need anyone to do my housekeeping and cooking for me, and a FWB isn't going to cost me $30K/year. And that's assuming she was even capable of making good on any of this. No dice princess.
...Now it's coming back to me! She supposedly had some kind of chronic fatigue related "illness", so you can imagine how seriously I took her proposal. Did I mention she was still in and out of university at age 35? Now wonder she was trying to hook a breadwinner.