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It's like the Grinch Who Stole Weddings.
Bleh. Some people try a little too hard with their anti-wedding sentiment, methinks.
heheheheh "angry young woman" came to mind when i was reading it... i think i was one of those once
I just re-read it twice, and I think all I want is to punch her in the nose. lol.
heheheheeheh... another treasure here.... "Just once, I'd like someone to say: ''I'm getting married because I'm needy, insecure, deeply conservative and have abandonment issues.''
she must be a fun chick to hang around and do girly stuff with.... wonder if she gets asked to BM much :)
lol. i bet she goes up to children and tells them that santa claus isn't real.
i bet she's a real peach around valentine's day.
Thou dost protest too much... Wow! She is bitter and cynical. Even more than me. HaHa! I wonder what events in life she does consider worth celebrating on a grand scale.??? I do believe in marriage equality and the fact that ALL should be allowed to marry legally. Actually, I don't quite understand how marriage is a legal issue at all, but I don't believe that depriving ourselves of what we want serves any political purpose whatsoever.
Whoa. Ouch! Maybe I should send her an invite to my wedding for kicks huh?
Way to make sweeping blanket judgements lady!
I never understood the appeal of marriage and weddings either until recently but I would never have begrudged anyone their choices in life or commented negatively on them - just not for me, you know? And I think this was b/c I had issues myself and was a commitmentphobe and this woman clearly has issues of some kind too. It's fine to not want to be married of course.
This reminds me a lot of some of the articles written by so called childfree people which I started reading when I decided I didn't want children. They are very angry and harsh - I don't want children of my own, but that doesn't mean that I have to say really nasty things about people who have kids or kids themselves.
Wow. Someone has their panties in a bunch!
"As for ''it's just a piece of paper'', it's so much more than that. It's the reinforcement of unrealistic expectations, outdated gender stereotypes and proof we're still being sucked in to happily-ever-after endings. It's also a scathing indictment of our lack of cultural maturity and spiritual imagination. And proof we're emotionally medieval."
I agree that its much more than a piece of paper.... but in a good way.
It reminds me of this column, mocking the view of how good feminists can't/shouldn't get married. sheesh. Thanks for sharing!
She has no clue what she's talking about. Which is sad for her, but quite amusing for us!
"...I do laugh at you behind your back when you defend it with hilarious and irrational rhetoric."
Word.
Wow. That's an interesting viewpoint. And so nice of her to point out that she laughs behind the back of anyone getting married. I wonder how many of her "friends" laugh at her for her vitrolic anti-marriage stance...
Wow what a bitter and SEXIST woman!
Apparently she has never truly been in love - I couldn't even read through the whole thing because I didn't want to turn my good morning into a bad one!
Maybe she's just mad cause no one wants to marry her... would You? Holy COW! I can't handle people that only see things so so so negatively!
I was so annoyed with her article that I googled her. She is a Stand Up Comedian so I am thinking (hoping) that this was just part of her comedy routine.
She also wrote a book on pregnancy, I can't even imagine what she has to say on that topic!
Eh, I used to be anti-marriage. People change their minds. :) This article is all fluff and no substance. She gives no hard evidence that marriage today is an archaic, sexist instution meant to control women like property. And all of her "examples" of why people get married probably don't apply to the majority of the population. It just sounds like angry, baseless ranting to me. And to get angry back at someone for their rambling, irrational venting is not really my style. So my only response is "eh."
I don't object to her not liking marriage. I do object to the publication of a ranting, poorly-written, puff piece. Even on the Internet.
The only person who is judging her for not getting married is HERSELF. If she really didn't give a crap about her decision to not get married she wouldn't write about it. She wouldn't even THINK about it enough to put into words, and she wouldn't feel the need to defend herself-which is all this really is.
Holy cow! What a bitter, cynical woman! Why does she need to defend herself so much? So she doesn't want to get married, ok, fine, I don't need to read it, nor do I need to hear her opinion on other people's marriages...ugh, I kind of want to punch her.
What an unhappy person she must be. I don't think marriage is for everyone (for a long time I didn't think it was for me, even after I met FI, even after we decided to commit to each other), but to judge other people's choices and assume you know the motivations is kind of ridiculous.
"women should ask themselves 'what's in it for me?' "
To fight fire with fire if we are really thinking along that lines then um... half of all his property if he screws me over.
Silly. My family and my friends still like to remind me from time to time I swore I would never get married. I am eating my words but they taste sweet to me.
Just as a factual matter, the divorce rate is not climbing toward 50%. That often-quoted rate was devised by looking at the years with the highest divorce rate in history, and assuming that the divorce rate would remain constant forever. In fact, those years represented the point at which divorces became more accepted, and thus a lot of people who had been unhappy for years got them all at once. It was never reasonable to expect that this rate would continue indefinitely, and in fact it has gone down, not up, since then.
And this is leaving aside the fact that a divorce rate of 50% (even if it existed) would not mean that 50% of people who got married would end up divorced. If you have one person who gets married and divorced four times, and four other people who get married once each, there is a 50% divorce rate, because half of the total marriages have ended in divorce. However, only 20% of the people who got married have been divorced.
What a sad person she must be, if this is how she views the world. :(
Everyone is entitled to their opinion. But, for someone who strives to be so wholly liberal, you would think she would be a bit more open minded? Whatevs. :)
All I can think of is Liar Liar and Jim Carrey saying "That's just something ugly people say."
And I mean, ugly inside. Ugly in the way they use the term in Mississippi, to describe a hateful person.
@2dBride: Ohhhh snap. Good point.
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http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/weddings-i-prefer-funerals--theyre-far-more-real-20090915-fplv.html
she kinda lost me at "Marriage doesn't work. For evidence, see the divorce rate climbing closer to 50 per cent "... hmmm, which would also mean that 50% of marriages are sucessful