*sniff* My little girl is goin off to be someone else's property now... I'll sure miss the days when I threatened to shoot her boyfriends with them piercings in their faces with my rifle.

I never expected to be playing devil's advocate here, but really guys? I do think that the little girl/ grown woman wedding dreams thing is obnoxious as all hell, and even infantilizing. But affectionate pet names for one's daughter does not a complex make. My father still calls me 'mouse', and I'm in my 20s. It's quite a natural thing for parents to do.

And though we may loath that marriage is rooted in the idea that women are property passing from father to son-in-law, are we really daring to assume that the average man is thinking that way when his daughter marries? Could we acknowledge that, for many people, a wedding is not a business transaction but an event which is meant to bring together family and friends for a celebration of love? Even if people are buying into the wedding industrial bullshit, it doesn't automatically make the event vapid and emotionally empty.

It's a big deal for parents when their children marry; let's give fathers the benefit of the doubt. Maybe instead of being possessive creeps, they're just emotional over seeing their child go through a major rite of passage.

Whilst I never understood the whole marriage dream thing that is stereotypical for women in society nor the fact that most of my friends and acquaintances actually did have them, though I won't call them stereotypic/dull/vapid etc. because they weren't, I don't really see anything wrong with this video.

Well actually I do but that's more of the commercialization of marriage and the median cost of weddings in the United States which in part could be used in a feminist argument overall, I don't really see anything misogynistic in the video. It's more of a woman realization a childhood dream to have a 'fairy-tale' esque kind of wedding. I agree with dj_sex_ed. It's not all about men giving away women as property for goodness' sakes nowadays.

If a video showed a child dreaming of being an astronaut or doctor then being one as an adult would that be infantilizing the person? No. It's the same with this video.

Mary_Fred has a good point, but we're still looking at a company known for depicting "Princess/protagonist marries prince/savior and they live happily every after!" as the conclusion to almost all of it's major films. Little girls watch this, idealize it, and then here's Disney corp AGAIN to actually full fill the fantasy it originally instilled. Thus creating a new heteronormative couple soon to be a family that Disney can market their family entertainment to. Somewhere a Disney executive experiences a spontaneous orgasm.

I also want to get married someday, lots of people want to get married, and it can be as big a thing as achieving your career aspirations, and I'm sure with Disney you could get a pretty awesome wedding, but as mentioned the commercialization is a serious issue.

A bigger issue though it the over-emphasis on getting married for women. Women grow up idealizing it, and often feel obligated to do so. Many might even marry whoever is availiable and seems to match their ideal, and thus end up with the wrong person leading to a bad marriage because they couldn't wait, because of the over emphasis of marriage in a woman's life.