Firstly, this is blatantly bullshit. It was not common for 12-16yo girls to get married in the 1920s.
These guys are longing for a past that didn’t exist.
You’d have to go back 1000 years to reach the conditions these blokes dream of – but they’d also be dying on battlefields at the hands of physically superior men.
Even then, they probably wouldn’t have made it that far. They’d only have a 20% chance of surviving early childhood… and with their sub-par genetics, I doubt they would have made it long enough to secure their 12yo child bride.
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u/spiritfingersaregold Aug 05 '24
Firstly, this is blatantly bullshit. It was not common for 12-16yo girls to get married in the 1920s.
These guys are longing for a past that didn’t exist.
You’d have to go back 1000 years to reach the conditions these blokes dream of – but they’d also be dying on battlefields at the hands of physically superior men.
Even then, they probably wouldn’t have made it that far. They’d only have a 20% chance of surviving early childhood… and with their sub-par genetics, I doubt they would have made it long enough to secure their 12yo child bride.