I agree with @Helenadove from earlier in the thread.
But a lot of men have double standards when it comes to feminism too and will only embrace the bits that suit them.
Are there as many men going halves on childcare/housework as there is going halves on dates?
Some men only embrace the part of equality that suits their wallet.
Despite a couple of people claiming that their husband/partner does as much in the house as them, and looks after the kids as much as them, the reality is that many men do not. Some even keep on living their life as if they are a single man, and most men will definitely try to keep up with their hobbies and interests and social life, after marriage and kids. Anyone who suggests that most men will be happy to be all equal in housework and childcare is deluded.
Indeed, some men will keep most of their money to themselves too, and if they are a higher earner, they will happily see their wife/partner go without, whilst spending on their hobbies and interests, and rarely lifting a finger to help in the house.
As I said before (and as many posters have said,) if a man asked me out on a date, and then started calculating his share (and mine) and said we must split the bill, there wouldn't be a second date. Call me old-fashioned, sexist, ridiculous, blah blah bloody blah, but it is just so rude and ignorant to ask a woman on a date and make her pay for herself. Can people here not see that?
It's not a case of me 'expecting him to pay for everything,' it is a sign of chivalry and kindness and generosity. Calculating what I have eaten and what HE has eaten is NOT a good sign IMO, and it does signify that he is a penny-pincher. And that is a fucking sour and ugly trait
I wouldn't be seeing him again, because in my experience, a man who is so tight-arsed that he would make a woman pay for her own meal on a date HE had asked her on, is a man who will see you starve before he would give you a quid for a sausage roll, and who will keep all his money to himself when you are a SAHM and he is the main earner (because he earns the money he deserves to spend it!) and he will rarely help with childcare or housework (and on the rare occasion he does, he will see it as doing you a favour.)
He will spend 1000's of pounds a year on his hobbies, but you will be lucky to be given a tenner a year towards make up. Oh, and he is usually selfish in bed too.
So yeah, a man asking me on a date and expecting me to pay for myself can fuck right off.
As was said earlier, if you are such a tight-arsed fuck that you will make a woman YOU asked out pay for herself on the first date, maybe you should take her to McDonalds. If you're lucky, you may be able to find a voucher for a free small fries on the back of a bus ticket or something; save yourself a few pennies......