The Kind Of Creature You’ve Chosen To Be
Apparently, it’s outdated and oppressive for a young woman to be walked down the aisle at her wedding by her father. And so she can insult him and embarrass him by taking away that role. But of course it’s not outdated or oppressive for that same father to be expected to pay all of the bills for the wedding at which he’s being so pointedly sidelined and insulted:
Millennial girl wants dad to pay for wedding, but refuses to walk down the aisle with him.
Also mad her dad talked to friends to solicit opinions.
Dad’s not paying, girl now realizes she can’t afford it- now soliciting opinions from tik-tok.
My kids are going to trade school. pic.twitter.com/OC6Q7FRKhF— Jason “Storm Chaser” Nelson (@RealJasonNelson) January 14, 2024
She’s “an independent thinker,” you see.
Update, via the comments:
It’s not, I think, hard to see how being very publicly dispensed with as outmoded or embarrassing – as a symbol of oppression and wickedness – might hurt the feelings of a father you supposedly care about.
And yet the above.
Little Madam concedes – albeit as somehow “unrelated” – that her parents do not, in fact, treat her as “property” – a term she uses repeatedly – and have seemingly never done so. Yet this imagined connotation must nonetheless, in her mind, be avoided at all costs. Lest The Patriarchy be empowered. As if it would otherwise occur to everyone else present and shape how they see the wedding. Which strikes me as a little odd.
Over the years I’ve been to several weddings and at no point during any of them did I regard the proud father as someone handing over his property. As if he were reluctantly, under duress, giving away his car. That’s not an idea that popped into my head – or, so far as I can tell, the heads of anyone else present at the ceremonies.
Something precious, yes. But not property.
And so, in order to ostentatiously reject a construal that no-one at her wedding is likely to arrive at anyway, Little Madam has alienated her parents and needlessly jeopardised the wedding in question. That happy day. And now she wants strangers on the internet to back her up and pin the blame on someone else.
Also, filming yourself putting on make-up while being a vain, monstrous bitch is probably not a look to go for.
Also, open thread.
David:
In the preindustrial era, fathers were relieved to be unloading an uneconomical woman-child who could not pull her weight.
With a crop of postmodern daughters like these, there may be a bit of that relief creeping back in to fathers’ broad smiles…
You’re forgetting the dowry the fathers had to come up with.
Full disclosure: I did once have a Cornish pasty while vacationing in England. It was tasty and contained real meat and vegetables. In fact, every meal I had there was fine.
“American-made Cornish pasties are not authentic: Real meat.”
You mean like Buc-ees?
I know nothing about Buc-ees.
The ones I had were from small restaurants in the Midwest.
I know nothing about Buc-ees.
Yet another poor benighted nekultury, stuck in an uncivilized Buc-ee’s desert.
Food deserts are real! Wake up sheeple!
This sounds tempting, in spite of the, er, unfortunate name.
“I know nothing about Buc-ees”
The sympathy…
I’m sorry, but this tweet posted under the British food one is hilarious: https://twitter.com/uuganaa_v2/status/1746726463515005284
Quite.
We needed to tank up the car yesterday so we drove 17 miles/25 minutes to Buc-ee’s and had bbq brisket sandwiches for lunch. Well, we really didn’t need to tank up the car.
One quibble was that some genius up here in Jacksonville thought putting Buc-ee’s at the same exit and across the street from Costco was a good idea. Had to sit through two light changes and considerable traffic. This out in BFE Duval county. Would do it again in a heartbeat..
She seems to love the tradition of daddy paying for the wedding. Isn’t that giving in to patriarchal norms?
Feminists have long demanded that men pay for stuff, although usually via government giveaways.