It is nowhere near as childish as being women and girls who perpetuate stereotypes that women are obsessed with getting married,
I'm not obsessed with getting married. I have quite a lot of other hobbies and I know these young women do as well. It's not fair to generalize everyone into one lump category and to have a perception in your head when you don't even know them at all. What's childish is that you'll come onto a forum, go into a thread, and bash random people that you will (most likely) never meet.
tricking men into proposing, want to get married after weeks of dating etc.
My DBF and I have been dating for 2 and a half years, and we've known each other for 5. That's a heck of a lot longer than a lot of couples, and even some planning their weddings right now! And LOL at your comment about "tricking men into proposing"; a) I haven't even seen the topic addressed in this thread and b) that's just pathetic. Who does that? I've already been proposed to, the only reason I don't run around saying I'm engaged is because my DBF proposed with a promise ring and HE (not I) feels ashamed at the prospect of me flashing my promise ring and telling people I'm engaged. I could care less; he wants to do the whole "Tiffany diamond engagement ring" schpell. HE calls me his fiancee; I call him my DBF.
Before you start assuming personal things about other people's relationships, you should probably read more of the stories on here; a lot of them are similar to mine and, if anything, most of the girls are at a point where they can OPENLY talk about marriage with their DBFs, it's not like they're planning a wedding behind their SO's backs.
MOST women I know are NOT like this, but society's opinion is that they are, because the craazy is more noticeable than the sane.
So yes- I find the existence of this thread incredibly offensive. All women should who hope to not be llumoed into the same category as you.
Some people find EVERYTHING offensive

. So what I am gathering is that you think we're all crazy? Well, I can only speak for myself here as I don't really know many of the girls here very well but I am definitely NOT obsessed with my wedding. It's always nice, however, to find a group of women at the same stage of their lives as you that can freely comment about ideas and situations that you may be facing at the particular moment. I don't see the big deal, I honestly don't. It just seems like a rejection based upon the fact that other girls were banned from the board because of the mods deeming their posts "off topic". I can honestly say that I also thought that was unjust and unfair and I completely disagreed with it. But why would you lump this thread into the same category? This is wedding-related; it's not like we're talking about buy a car or finding cheap Disney tickets. There's been some of threads that had NOTHING to do with planning weddings and that contain questions that were better suited for the Resort Board or the Restaurant Board or even the DVC board but no one has said anything. THAT's a double standard.
I really don't mean to pick on anyone but this had to be said. No hard feelings, just a firm exchange of opinion.