Have You Heard Of The Fairytale Industrial Complex?
These expectations are unreasonable
“That is part of why we are in the mess that we are in, with people having these very unrealistic standards and fantasies about what it [love] looks like. In this complex, the focus is on finding the one perfect person,” says Hogi. “It’s about this person coming in and saving you. Completing you. Plucking you from your horrible situation, and carrying you off into the sunset. It’s ‘Pretty Woman.’ It’s ‘Cinderella.’”