It might just be the media and social circles I’ve been around, but there is a common refrain amongst them along the lines of “girls, you are dumb if you get married young. Live your life, build a career, explore your sexual horizons, and learn things about yourself before you even consider letting a man be a part of your future.”
Some say the same to men, but through women an entire future is destroyed if they follow that advice. Not so much for men.
Sex and the City was considered an aspiration to many young women around the 2000s. The show Girls was about the same. It’s so common now that it’s a trope in most modern media.
It’s not far removed from the portrayal of mothers, and motherhood, as a burdensome or an outright prison sentence (e.g. Tully).
I file that under “direct assault,” since women are especially susceptible to media manipulation, but they won’t know the error of it until the damage is permanent. Since “young marriage” is dependent on both men and women being young, spoiling one group spoils the whole aspiration.
And from this radical change we now have the viral “I’m ready to settle down” memes — typically showing a fruit having rotted on the vine, but it it self-assured in its “being ready” to be treated as though its value is peaking, now that it has thoroughly debased itself.
Since about 1965, the left has done everything they can to upend the traditional early pairing of men and women.
Now we live in dystopia.
I see decline of early marriage as more of a lateral/upstream thing to leftism, they don't really attack it directly.
It might just be the media and social circles I’ve been around, but there is a common refrain amongst them along the lines of “girls, you are dumb if you get married young. Live your life, build a career, explore your sexual horizons, and learn things about yourself before you even consider letting a man be a part of your future.”
Some say the same to men, but through women an entire future is destroyed if they follow that advice. Not so much for men.
Sex and the City was considered an aspiration to many young women around the 2000s. The show Girls was about the same. It’s so common now that it’s a trope in most modern media.
It’s not far removed from the portrayal of mothers, and motherhood, as a burdensome or an outright prison sentence (e.g. Tully).
I file that under “direct assault,” since women are especially susceptible to media manipulation, but they won’t know the error of it until the damage is permanent. Since “young marriage” is dependent on both men and women being young, spoiling one group spoils the whole aspiration.
And from this radical change we now have the viral “I’m ready to settle down” memes — typically showing a fruit having rotted on the vine, but it it self-assured in its “being ready” to be treated as though its value is peaking, now that it has thoroughly debased itself.