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scary_lady

Meringues and other hellish devices

Feb 08, 2005 22:14

Tomorrow is Stage Two of wedding dress shopping. This is all part of the invasion of Czechoslavakia, you see ( Read more... )

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smokingboot February 9 2005, 11:04:51 UTC

And yet you know, the invasion will be perfect, you will be safe, warm, beautiful and happy...there is always a price to pay for such things!

Have a lovely afternoon. Wish I was with you!

Lazyitis westernind February 9 2005, 11:58:13 UTC

The pain of having to organise the do is one of the three reasons Simon and I aren't married!

Re: Lazyitis scary_lady February 9 2005, 12:02:56 UTC

May I enquire about the other two?

Re: Lazyitis westernind February 10 2005, 11:21:54 UTC

2. "Engels etc" - shorthand for the historicity of marriage as a patriarchal institution. This one bothers Simon more than me, and it doesn't bother either of us nearly as much as it did. More recently I think that it has the nature of a personal and social contract; it's what you decide to make of it ( ... )

Re: Lazyitis scary_lady February 10 2005, 11:35:29 UTC

Re 2. All kinds of things have a history as patriarchal institutions. Voting, law & medicine spring immediately to mind as things that had to be prised from the unwilling grasp of man. Does marriage benefit man more than woman nowadays, the way it used to? I'd say not.

RE 3. Sorry, I'm feeling very un-intellectual and non-PC, but what constitutes a civil partnership? In what why does this differ from a civil marriage (ie. one in front of a registrar?). I think I'm missing something here that would allow me to understand the distinction you are making.

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