Women want to have a wedding.
They dream about it and plan for it from childhood.
They view it as a rite of passage.
The relationship between males and females is a mess.
The boys all want the top 10% (in looks) of the girls.
The girls all want the top 10% (in looks and later money) of the boys.
There’s a lot of love and happiness being wasted because Hollywood and Madison Avenue have convinced so many people that looks are all that matter.
The girls all want the top 10% (in looks and later money) of the boys.
I'm not sure that's really any different than it has ever been, men are genetically disposed to seek out young attractive women who will ostensibly give birth to the strongest and healthiest children and women look for men who will make the best providers (as judged by either a strong healthy physique in younger men or material wealth and success in older men). The difference is now, unlike most of history, our idea of what makes a beautiful women or handsome man has been heavily influenced by our access to TV / Internet. A century ago, a young man or women growing up in a small town may have only seen 50 members of the opposite sex of similar age by the time they were old enough to wed. Now, due to mass media, they see that many in an hour of watching TV, not to mention that those tend to be very attractive actors and models. Now that small town girl who would have, a century ago, fallen head over heels for the small town boy of average looks thinking him a "10", now won't give him the time of day because she knows there are far more attractive fish in the sea.