Apart from my head-spinny, angry reaction to the initial premise, there's the more important follow up: but marriage as a cultural institution has changed and women's role in society has changed. That's not the basis for marriage in America in 2010, so why should it be the basis for Judge Walker's decision?
I've really got to learn to just do the damage and get out of town. It's the 'stay and gloat' that gets me every time.
Ethan Rayne ,'Potential'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Aug 09, 2010 1:28:27 pm PDT #16997 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
Beverly - Aug 09, 2010 1:29:53 pm PDT #16998 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Salad's usually more trouble than it's worth, unless it's dinner, including two or three kinds of lettuce, red cabbage, green onions, 'shrooms, shredded carrot, tender yellow squash and zucchini coins, two kinds shredded cheese, a dollop of cottage cheese and raspberry balsamic vinegar, no oil (can't do tomatoes, peppers, onions, cukes). Or caesar.
Lunch is usually a handful (6-8) of green leaf lettuce or romaine leaves and a boiled egg, a slice of cold turkey loaf, or a chunk of grilled chicken breast. Undressed lettuce is pretty inoffensive, and I can eat it out of hand and not wrestle it with a fork.
Laura - Aug 09, 2010 1:32:34 pm PDT #16999 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Marriage is a necessary defense of a woman’s sexuality and her human liberty from determined assault by men who would turn her into a slave, a concubine – something less than fully human.
I don't think my male husband protects me from determined assault by men who would turn me into a slave or concubine. Pretty sure if I had a woman partner she would help me fight off these determined assaulting men, or if alone I might manage to find a way to protect myself. Then again, I guess I have just been lucky that I haven't had to deal with these determined men who want me for a slave or concubine. Or in fewer words, @@.
Sheryl - Aug 09, 2010 1:39:55 pm PDT #17000 of 30001
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Aims!
Home now. Tired.
Zenkitty - Aug 09, 2010 1:41:33 pm PDT #17001 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Marriage doesn't protect women from assault. In many cases it simply legalizes it. That guy is living in a world that is not this one.
Beverly - Aug 09, 2010 1:41:49 pm PDT #17002 of 30001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
::Points at Laura's @@ and adds my own::
Connie Neil - Aug 09, 2010 1:46:48 pm PDT #17003 of 30001
brillig
Does the CSM normally have a comments section? Or did they wisely forego on here?
-t - Aug 09, 2010 1:51:29 pm PDT #17004 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
What a lot of nonsense trying very hard to masquerade as sweet reason.
I have been working on making a salad all day. I've managed to wash the lettuce and, er, eaten all the carrots because I tried one and it was delicious and just eating them all up Bugs Bunny style seemed much easier than slicing or grating or anything else. I like salads, but I'm bad at the prep that goes into them.
megan walker - Aug 09, 2010 2:01:18 pm PDT #17005 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Yes, I hate salad prep. Luckily, the French are all about one ingredient salads (lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, or tomatoes), so there's a rationalization for my laziness.
Aims - Aug 09, 2010 2:03:13 pm PDT #17006 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
megan walker! I got a French-English dictionary for my birthday! It made me think of you!