Pamela Anderson divorcing Kid Rock after less than four months of marriage.Yeah, okay. This is the kind of shit I'm talking about, and it's not just the celebrity fuck-ups, either - I'm talking about the 48% success rate, which again amounts to marriages that end in death. The other 52% are all divorces.
THIS is why I'm not interested anymore in 'marriage equality', I don't want this as the standard for an institution that is supposed to mean so much and represent the depth of committment.
As a matter of fact, I
AM better than that.
Then again, I can look at my paternal grandparents, still very much in love after 50 years of putting up with each other. There is a problem with the way marriage is treated today--but those who still find that sense of committment and live up to it are among the lucky. And the strong.
It ain't right, and these two assholes just add yet another failed marriage to tht 52% and rising, divorce rate.
:/
Anyone can make a promise. It takes integrity to keep it.
And I say we're all entitled to better than a social structure originally intended to make a master out of one party and chattel out of the other. Fuck marriage. Give me love instead, and I'll be satisfied.
--Kris
Marriage itself definitely needs a major makeover. I really would love to see an end to the insane amount of gender stereotyping that it causes, and I'd love to get rid of all the ceremonial marriage traditions that are grounded in, as you said, the idea of women as property. If this country is going to keep upholding the so-called sanctity of marriage, we need to make marriage more egalitarian.
It's ridiculous that grown people (of any gender or sexual orientation) can't share health benefits and other legal rights with whomever they choose b/c some people live in some 1950s fantasy land where marriage is as sacred as it's supposed to be and the only true way of showing love for another person. It really has become a joke b/c so many people feel forced to get married when that's really not the best choice for them. We need to give people other options.