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Originally Posted by girlgun
Yeah well it's not especially funny. Imagine if it had been the other way around.
And equal rights for all us a fucking given. And I will fight for it. You should be able to marry who you love if you so desire, but don't hate on it because you can't....yet  |
1) I think I made it pretty fucking obvious that I was joking about superiority, you know with the lol and the huge grin. I'm
constantly reading threads on this board that are jokes are horribly horribly misogoynist, homophobic etc and nobody sees to be offended. To stand up to those means that you *gasp* don't have a sense of humor and are here to kill the fun. That being said, I think that people are trying too hard to be PC by pretending that there are two equal sides in this arguement. As somebody who is not going to get married/who could not get married even if I wanted to I will likely have to face a lot more barriers than somebody who can get married. I'm constantly listening to reasons why marriage works etc, I have ever right to assert my side of the arguement.
And no, I'm not one for assimiliationist arguments because I don't want to assimilate into and become equal with an institution that I view as being inherently violent. I kinda disgust myself when I start advocating for gay marriage since marriage alone perpetrates a system of stupid fucking hierarchy. Single people should have the same rights/privileges as married people. People should not have to get married so that they can be able to afford to live. That mentality paves the way to so much domestic violence/abuse etc. End of story.
2) Equal rights are not a given. They are something you have to continue to fight for.