Catherynne M. Valente on Nostr: I just had a realization. It was (and is) always so confusing when The Bad Straights ...
I just had a realization.
It was (and is) always so confusing when The Bad Straights claimed “gay people getting married will ruin the institution for everyone.”
But I think they always meant that if two men or two women can get married, then marriage must not be defined by a man obtaining a woman as servant/property & securing exclusive rights to her labor, identity, & body.
And without that, they can’t even imagine what purpose marriage could ever serve.
It was (and is) always so confusing when The Bad Straights claimed “gay people getting married will ruin the institution for everyone.”
But I think they always meant that if two men or two women can get married, then marriage must not be defined by a man obtaining a woman as servant/property & securing exclusive rights to her labor, identity, & body.
And without that, they can’t even imagine what purpose marriage could ever serve.