I appreciate your thoughtful take on the situation. Being single, 39, and not even dating, I am in that same place of even if it does happen, it won't be of the growing-up-together-and-having-a-family variety
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Did you know that as a single person you pay more for health and car insurance than marrieds? When married people can add someone to a policy at a discount, and single people cannot --- a widespread practice in the insurance and service industry --- it is discrimination. Guess who foots the bill
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There was something... almost dangerously reifying in the Kennedy opinion on marriage. I can't help myself, I keep going back to Gramsci and wondering whether this means... something about the power of dominant society to co-opt and incorporate homosexuality. I don't know. I really, really thought it was just going to happen, the most surprising thing about the decision, to me at least, has been my lack of surprise. It had become all but inevitable... Also, I am weirdly pessimistic that this will bleed a lot of progressive-ism from the LGBT movement. I was much more excited when it happened in Colorado, and I do feel that if we have marriage, to exclude a class if people from it is fundamentally wrong. I get what you're saying, though. It seemed... somehow, incredibly gender normative, for all that it should have been (and maybe it still is/was) such a transgressive moment. Somehow, it made me think of marriage in Japan (and a lot of other places in Asia) where you can be a part of your natal household (your father's) or
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