People are arguing on Facebook about whether it's sexist for a man to ask his girlfriend's father's permission to marry her.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Seems to me a woman who doesn't respect tradition and ceremony isn't worth marrying. Just someone to date until someone better comes along.
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Replying to @MrSonicAdvance @HPluckrose
If they don't respect tradition and ceremony why would they want to get married in the first place?
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Replying to @iain_claxton @HPluckrose
Exactly! Our traditions and rituals bind us together as a community. Gender roles have evolved into a great system. Why mess with it?
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Replying to @MrSonicAdvance @HPluckrose
I just think these people don't understand why we do things out of respect. To busy trying to be a victim rather than build themselves.
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Replying to @iain_claxton @MrSonicAdvance
I understand why. I like some traditions & I know the psychology behind it. I just don't like all of them or they're not meaningful to me.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @iain_claxton
Helen, when you get married, you join something that is bigger than you are. Every married couple who attend you wedding, re-live their own.
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I'm not saying anyone shouldn't do WTF they want. Hell, people can get "married" underwater. Women even "marry" themselves now!
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I'm just rejecting the notion that taking a tradition and fucking about with it is a good idea, because it degrades and devalues it.
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Well, sometimes it is good, sometimes bad, mostly neutral to change traditions. I'd like to see circumcision gone.
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