rant against romance

[magpie_81]

more updating to combat the boredom...

I'd like to make an argument that concept of romance/love is the same thing as stupidity. This is really an internal argument inside my head since I'm arguing against my conception of romance/love. The point of this, really, is not that romance/love doesn't exist, but that my conception of it doesn't exist and

Comments

[theogal]

"We tell our girls to wait for Prince Charming to solve all of our problems in order to distract them and keep them from gaining full status in our society," or so a friend of mine would say. (although I'm sure she would come off as less reactionary-sounding and more intelligent than what I said.)

Ironically, it's the same friend who fell in love with someone who sounds like an asshole, got dumped (and he has since married), and she has decided not to fall in love with anyone else because she decided she would only ever love one person. Talk about double standards, eh? :)

To be fair, a lot of emotional attachments don't lead to completely independant variables, as you put it. Even if they're built up separately, they're built up over time, and if one of them has a good time odds are that the other person is having a good time too. Although I suppose that mostly rules out love at first sight, the concept of which I can't imagine you'd be too fond of.

I haven't heard much about gay or lesbian "relationships," aside from the two people involved just figuring things out themselves. I can't help but feel, sometimes, that they would have the healthiest relationships just because they've already given up on all the social conventions.