Subnostr

I doubt modern men would be willing to marry many of the women their grandfathers and great-grandfathers were marrying, and they would be dismayed at how quickly women aged.

There is a German phrase "Every child costs one tooth" and women where having 6 kids. You do the math.

If everyone gets a wife, that means you have hardly any choice in which wife you get. Think about it.

CARLOS 1y ago

That’s not very fair though, unless this in the context of some “women were better back then!” kind of simplification :)

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Laeserin 1y ago

I think modern men have an ahistorical view of female beauty, so the concept of universal marriage sounds more appealing than it was. We can't go back to that era, and I doubt anyone born today would actually be willing to do so, if they saw what life back then was actually like.

CARLOS 1y ago

People have an ahistorical view about everything, basically. The concept of marriage generations ago on anyone’s head is just a soup of decontextualised biases.

Laeserin 1y ago

I've also noticed that men tend to heavily discount womens' age in old pictures. They see pictures of 16 year-old factory girls from 1910 and get all excited because they think she's 25.