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Regis - HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot

@Catvalente Sure. Similarly, the whole "hurf durf Imma gonna marry my dog!" bs makes me want to ask how they're going to get the dog to sign health care proxy paperwork.

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Catherynne M. Valente

@rmd1023 It’s the same terminal thought though.

If marriage isn’t about owning a woman & rights to her, then it must be meaningless, because to them, that servitude & captivity is totally bound up with the very concept of romantic love.

And if marriage is meaningless then it makes just as much sense to marry your dog etc.

They just can’t imagine a meaning outside man leads/woman serves/woman can’t get away

Regis - HTTP 1.1/418 Teapot

@Catvalente Sigh, yeah. I think also, "marriage is about where I can put my dick" (coupled with "queer sex is unnatural and akin to bestiality"), rather than "marriage is a societal contract creating a social unit" or some wacky woke shit like that.

P J Evans

@Catvalente @rmd1023
The romantic love part is more recent. It used to be all about alliances and property.

DressToKILT

@rmd1023 @Catvalente I just assumed that people making that argument were likely potential rapists, because they clearly have no concept of consent.

Major Denis Bloodnok

@rmd1023 @Catvalente One Tory peer here came out with a spiel about how he's fond of his son but doesn't want to marry him. You can fill in the obvious response.

P J Evans

@rmd1023 @Catvalente
How will the dog sign the marriage license?

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