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Does anyone else find it weird that it's not completely uncommon for pre-pubescent girls to fantasize about their wedding? Why are they thinking about marrying someone when they're not even old enough to be attracted to people yet? Is there a biological reason for this?
The "biological reason" is "societal preconditioning". Its Disney movies, toys marketed towards small girls, television, social media...
Despite many advancements in equality, marrying a rich man is still seen (and marketed) as a live goal for women.
Also, wedding and princess are pretty mutch the same thing for a girl. Pretty dress, center of attention, presents, etc. Its not about "getting married".
nope, entirely cultural
if toy guns and gi joes were marketed toward little girls we would have a bunch of them fantasizing about being soldiers
There is no biological reason because weddings are a social construct we made up in the first place. Not every human society even has weddings/marriage as a concept. It’s just purely societal conditioning that teaches little girls that marriage and having kids is the only future they can expect. I was never interested in marriage as a young child (duh), but my mother always talked as if that future was inevitable for me. It’s hard not to think about something everyone treats like fate.