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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

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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.

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