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14th July 2008, 02:14 AM
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Reps: 214,367,735,875,574,368 (power: 214,367,735,875,582) | | Originally Posted by Beanieboy  While Carrie from Sex And the City can either be annoying or endearing, I loved when she made her married friend pay for the shoes stolen from the friend's house by adding up the bridal shower gifts, wedding gifts, and baby shower gifts given to her over the years, and saying that she wanted some payback. I remember that episode. She gets upset because Carrie spends $500 on a pair of shoes for herself, but Carrie has spent over $2000 for the decisions her friend has made. That's what's strange about SATC, it's either empowering or downright insulting. 
The wedding industry makes a lot of money. I can't remember the exact statistics on how much money there is in the wedding registry area, but I know it's in the billions.
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14th July 2008, 02:20 AM
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Reps: 16,712,951,262,380,520 (power: 16,712,951,262,392) | | | If I marry my partner, and that is a big if, because it's a heteronormative thing, I want it to be simple, I want it to be about us, and our friends. That's all.
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14th July 2008, 05:48 AM
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I'd be expected to invite too many people I don't like, for a start.
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14th July 2008, 06:56 AM
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Reps: 116,174,334,152,163,008 (power: 116,174,334,152,182) | | | In many cases it's not the brides day, it's the mother-of-the-brides day who is making up for the fact that when she got married she didn't get the wedding she dreamed of but the one her mother dreamed of. I was at one wedding where bride confessed to me that she had no idea who several people were and at least half were only vaguely familiar to her.
Getting married is still seen as the ultimate achievement for a woman, it doesn't matter if she has a PhD and a six figure salary, if she's not married and popped out a baby or two then anything she has done is nothing. I think this attitude isthe reason there are still many flat out wrong 'statistics' floating around, for example an educated woman over 30 has only a minute chance of getting married, also she only has a minute chance of becoming pregnant. It's all absolute tosh of course, educated women are more likely to get married then uneducated women of the same age, and while fertility does decrease as we age there is no dramatic drop of fertility from our 20's to our 30's. |
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