I've read over your article several times. I got the tenor of it. You spend a lot of money at salons and you feel that is your contribution to dates. You feel that an equitable contribution from your male companions are an expensive dinner date. If you are 40+ year old woman of average means, $350 dollars spent at salons to get ready for a routine dinner date is frivolous and ego centric. If a man, let's say 45+ years old of average means pays a similar amount of money for said dinner date, it will cripple him financially. My advice to most men is not to allow yourself to be crippled financially in order to satisfy the desires of such a woman.