Yes, it is true some woman belittles most of the men in the society. This happens when a man is desperate to own a woman. That man would do anything just to make the woman say “yes” to his courtship. There the woman would start to use the man, there is no love find here. The woman would use the man to buy her needs and in return the woman would plasticly love the man. Yes, it is possible that a woman would fall through the way in their relation if she could appreciate the effort of the man. But the worse result would be, the woman would leave the guy because she think that she could not use him anymore or she maybe find someone who is more attractive and more richer compared to the man who is desperate to the woman.
Being in love is hard problem specially if you are in-love with a person that is not in-love with you. You see in order to be happy you must be using your mind 60% and your heart 40%. You must let you mind dominate your heart. It is good that you would love someone but you need to know that she can trash you and you must be ready to accept that fact. You can take risk by falling in-love with pretty woman but you need to use your mind. Be wise don’t let woman step your pride and life by the way that treating you like an Pet to them.

I find this behavior sickening!    I mean, I'm not some male-rights anti-woman person, but this really gets on my nerves.

Well, from what I see with the OP's example, the source of my commentary, is that the woman continues to push the man (She is one of those competitive types.). when, obviously the man isn't guilty of sloth.