Do fathers still expect to be asked permission to marry their daughter? Is this a sexist tradition?

[Warren DeMontague]

112. During our wedding, my wife's parents got lost on the way to walk her down the aisle.

So she said she felt stupid standing up there by herself with everyone looking at her, for the several minutes it took her kind of befuddled folks to figure out which path to take.

This is an independent, accomplished, professional woman, who doesn't take any shit from anyone, least of all me. She most positively did not "need" to have her "ownership transferred".

But she was wearing a big fuckin' dress- which she picked out, by the way, no one forced her into that thing either- that was sort of hard to navigate with, and it was helpful to her, for her to have people walking with her, plus then she didn't have to feel like she was standing up on stage in a blinking neon sign all by herself.

But what the fuck? If someone wants to get married doing X, Y, or Z, who gives a shit? Some people want to have their wedding officiant be a guy in a wookie costume. Rrrrrawwarrrr rarrr rarrr! Who fucking cares? it's their business.

Also, my specific comment was about walking down the aisle, not "giving away". I don't see why one or both partners in a same sex wedding might not like to have a parent walk them down the aisle too.