Except for the degrading comments towards women in your post, SB, I agree that marriage as an institution is obsolete. Some people like it and that's OK. Some/most people think they have to go through it: That is not OK. And spending $50K of money they don't have on a wedding is not OK cause, statistically, the couple will be divorced within 2-3 years and will still be repaying their credit cards for wedding expenses.

Very seriously: fairy tales of the 19th century like Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella and Snow White, where the woman is saved from herself by a prince charming, can no longer be taught to little girls because it creates the wrong expectations in their young influenceable minds.