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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/academicgirl on 2023-09-04 17:35:24.

I’m 28, so my social life has basically revolve around my friend’s weddings for a while, and while it’s so so lovely to celebrate partnership, I’m seeing the outsized celebration women get for engagement and marriage.

A former classmate posted how she never felt so loved as on her bachelorette weekend and it just had me wishing women could be celebrated outsized of their relationships to men. It makes me so sad, because I know there are many single women who have done kickass things like grad degrees and buying homes on a single income, and they get nothing of the sort.

Engaged women get potentially an engagement part, a bridal shower, a bachelorette trip, AND a wedding. And for WHAT? For the “achievement” of snagging a man. Do better, girls.

I’m struggling to support my friends while this whole wedding industrial complex feels so antithetical to how I feel about women. It sucks that when /if my Bf proposes that’s when society will celebrate me.