Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Suave
"Meant" to get married? Marriage is a social convention created to preserve class power, create political alliances, and increase economic security. It is a traditionally patriarchal practice symbolizing the passing of property (the bride) from her father to her husband. It is, by all accounts, the absolute antithesis of women's rights and endures today only because it has been so strongly ingrained into our collective consciousness. No one is meant to get married; they are just told that they must because that is what has been done for thousands of years.
In its defence, marriage has been recently romanticized and become much more gender equal than in the past. Marriage, like most other things though, is a choice. It is one that some people are not suited to, yet pursue anyway, and that some people choose not to pursue at all.
|
This was a really insightful post, Suave.  I happen to agree with everything you've said. So let me add this instead: In my English class, we read a dissertation on the institution of marriage and how it has been changing from something of a buisness arrangement into a ceremony of romance. The dissertation also argued that this reason is why more marriages are failing than before. I think this viewpoint makes a lot of sense.
__________________
"The question isn't who is going to let me, it's who is going to stop me." (Ayn Rand)
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." (M. Scott Peck)
|