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Cake day: December 24th, 2023

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  • This ignores the conditioning that women get. Stories that portray a good ending for women as marriage, finding your one and only. You place the blame on women, as if countless men haven’t told them that was the only thing they should look forward to.

    It was so bad, that I, an aroace agender person, thought that my role was to get married and have children. I thought that if I played into the role, I would finally feel like a woman, but I never did. I wouldn’t even begin to understand how actual women would feel if their femininity was defined by this.

    Granted, the expectations on women have changed to be a bit more liberating, but even things such as abortion being controversial shows that in the end, serving as a baby incubator is what people see women as being. The needs of the person is thus ignored over a potential child being born to serve this exploitative society.

    The demographic of women who have been indoctrinated by this thinking are still the people who get married the most. It’s obvious as to why. Realizing this is what causes these divorces. Realizing that they’ve been conditioned to stay in an unhappy relationship is what causes these divorces.

    What you seem to be against is a combination of the effects of patriarchy and capitalism: the wedding industry. The patriarchy tells women that their wedding will be the happiest moment of their lives, the one thing they should be waiting for, while capitalism exploits that need for happiness in the wedding by promising that happiness can only be achieved with such expenses. The wedding industry then uses propaganda in order to reinforce this message.