@QoB: Not even WHITE CHEESE? plain white bread, pasta, potatoes, etc...sounds awfully bland.

It seems like for one of the women in the article, anyway, Dad just wants her money. She's a doctor, after all. If she marries, Dad no longer gets the dough.

Ummm, isn't walking away from a guy's advances clearly indicating that one is not giving consent?

@pyrrhic: I would have thought that a girls-only boarding school would be worse than a co-ed one.

@sugarplum: Yes. My high school, which is historically Anglican, holds a special chapel service on All Saints' Day (where we have to sing "For All the Saints......."). Two boarding houses are named after saints as well.

It's something, but there's still much more to do, including ordaining women, allowing priests to marry and allowing/recognizing divorce...

@LongBoarderLC: I knew of a girl who married at 18, just after she graduated from high school. They were divorced within a couple of years or so. Word was that they married so the guy could come to Canada.

I'm pretty sure this pic (my high school grad photo) was retouched... (yeah, our uniforms were middy blouses and ties)

I don't think it's just the Evangelicals who get mad at this kind of change. The Anglican church I used to attend uses more modern language for the Lord's Prayer and though I went there for a year, I *STILL* don't know the "modern" version by heart. To me, it isn't the "proper" version.

@hfree: Yeah, but Yao Ming's wife is like 6'1 or something, not 6'6.

@k8ertot: I know that some sororities have alumnae initiation, and married undergrad women who want to join a sorority can be initiated as an alumna

@FormicaLinoleum: You know, if one was writing an academic paper on this topic, one would probably bring examples from other, yet similar situations and still be on topic. Anyway, this is an old thread, and I don't think anyone will be looking at this anymore.

@Sara Jean, coffee bean: Don't they both have a lot of cake shows? LOL :)

Do people really buy that commemorative china stuff?

@FormicaLinoleum: @SarahMC: You were arguing that asking the bride-to-be's father for permission to marry was sexist. I'm saying that door games, especially when groomsmen are required to pay bridesmaids so the groom can see the bride can also be seen as sexist (usually the bridesmaids will not only require the…

@SarahMC and everyone else: Would you consider it sexist if the groomsmen are required to pay bridesmaids $X amount of money so the groom can see the bride? Even if they're required to say, pass candy to each other with their mouths? Because that too is part of a modern Chinese wedding. And yes, this is on topic…

@FormicaLinoleum: Not on topic here, but I was giving an example of something that some people may criticize as being sexist/old fashioned. I didn't think anyone was going to discuss Chinese wedding traditions on this thread.

@MissyMcCLung: Look, if someone is okay with it, then I think we should let it go. In Chinese cultures, all children, including grown ones are expected to respect their elders. At the tea ceremony, the bride and groom are supposed to kneel when they serve tea to the older generation. Some families also have a…

@SarahMC: Yeah, I think it's perfectly fine. You can think what you want, Sarah and I can too. Free country.

@SarahMC: No I didn't. I honestly don't mind. And he asked me if I was okay with him asking my dad.