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[winkwildly]

in the interest of wasting time and my yearnin' for inspiration with this paper, i think you guys should post a paragraph or two of something you've written this term for school in the comments. anything at all - essay, lab report, word find, whatever. i'd like a peek into your sordid academic lives.

the cool kids are doing it?

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[oh_volcano]

In the text, gay marriage is spoken of in terms of where it is legal or not legal, rather than the surrounding issues involving the dispute. The text also spends a great deal of space discussing and exploring the dynamics of straight marriages. This discussion heavily relies on the separation of the genders and how they relate to each other. The text regards marriage itself as a sort of a scientific experiment: Two people are socialized into their respective genders and have to interact with each other in an intimate way based on their gender socialization. To take this experiment analogy into GLBT relationships would be interesting because gender expectations are the main ingredient of marriage, according to the text’s exploration. What happens when two of the same genders have a family together? Is some social equilibrium destroyed? What happens to normalcy? I’m confident that everyone knows at least one family that is “dysfunctional.” Children are “mistakes”, wives are beaten, sons and daughters raped and molested by their own heterosexual, flesh and blood parents. We know this because it happened to us, or our friends, or we at least saw it on the news or reenacted in a film. It’s unfortunately common