Allergies, water shortage, cancer, crime, concrete, and commuting--most of them things that afflict any place that attempts to get a lot of people living together in harmony--aside for the moment, what is it about the legal rights and responsibilities of marriage that leave you discontent?
What about it makes you say it's based on property and patriarchy? I know these are the roots of civil marriage. But these days, in the so-called liberal democracies of which ours is one, married people don't have to own property, or be one another's property. Women don't have to take a man's name. Justices of the peace and mail-order pastors can officiate, separating the institution from religion.
Forgive me for just repeating all the obvious things we all know. Perhaps you have an insider's whistleblower view on this whole song-and-dance that so many people still seem to want to be able to join.
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Date: 2008-05-15 11:14 pm (UTC)What about it makes you say it's based on property and patriarchy? I know these are the roots of civil marriage. But these days, in the so-called liberal democracies of which ours is one, married people don't have to own property, or be one another's property. Women don't have to take a man's name. Justices of the peace and mail-order pastors can officiate, separating the institution from religion.
Forgive me for just repeating all the obvious things we all know. Perhaps you have an insider's whistleblower view on this whole song-and-dance that so many people still seem to want to be able to join.