Here I am, reading various sites because it’s Saturday afternoon and whilst I have things to do around the house before I go to a braai this evening, I’m putting them off. Then I came across this wonderfully written bitter piece of work.
For the lazy amongst you, it’s an article written by a woman on marriage and essentially why it’s crap for women. Even though she says it’s not out of bitterness or bitchiness, it really and truly seems to be.
I don’t really see the hype about marriage, it’s just a ceremony and some legal babble but everything essentially stays the same in my mind. In fact, if we ever do it, I’m going to get proposed to with a puppy instead of a ring and the wedding will be a pirate themed wedding in Las Vegas. I’m weird like that, I want a fun weird wacky wedding I won’t have to plan, and, I get an awesome vacation because Las Vegas really is a cool place. The reason for the pirate thing is on the one site I read that they use the line “I now pronounce you pirate and wench” which tickled me and I thought was rockingly good fun.
I know a lot of my friends are very hyped about it though, from the friends dying to walk down the aisle to those going through the hair tearing out process of planning it and for various reasons. They want to show their love for their significant others in front of everyone and declare that, they’re doing it for religious reasons or they just want that day where they ARE the center of the universe.
None of them are feminazis worrying about their father giving them away as if they were property or being bound to this man like a slave. There’s a good reason for this though, normal women don’t think like that. If you’re a person who’s digs around to find evidence that whatever old tradition is set up to preserve the dominance of men then you need to take a step back and ask yourself why.
Honestly I just found it fascinating that someone who wrote an article dripping with bitterness says they aren’t bitter.
Pirate and wench?
So you wanna be a pirate, huh?
Sure, but on condition that you help me be the most beautiful wench on the day!
Hahaha you will be the most beautiful wench *the drunk woman tries to type* I think I got that right without any spelling errors
Convince me. I need pictures. And chocolate. And flowerssss.
Okay, I’ll settle for sex.
Do you want a cheap pirate or an expensive one that does everything you ask??? I need to know how much to spend
Ha small world, I just read that article, which was published on my birthday and the person who wrote it is my girlfriends cousin (who I have never met).
Anyway, the start of her article is on track, marriage did start out as a totally patriarchal scheme that oppressed women. However, I do not like her argument against modern marriage. Comparing single women to married women is like comparing apples to oranges. What she should have done is compared unmarried couples to married couples and of course they should have been grouped in accordance to the number of years they have been together. This would have given a true reflection of modern marriage – instead of what she currently has, which at present only indicates that heterosexual relationships are bad.
Also she should through in some same sex couples to see if that makes any difference to the results. Then again this is an article for a news website so the editors probably raped it to death to say what their views of society are. I hate journalists.