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Jun. 6th, 2006 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Marriage is under attack throughout the western world. Divorce runs rampant, with failure as the norm rather than the exception. Single-parent (or no-parent) families have become normal, parallel to families with altogether too _many_ parents* confusing the mix.
It's those damned heterosexuals. Ban heterosexual marriage and you'll solve the problem.
*Leads to puzzling situations. Like this summer, we will have to attend two sets of wedding functions for a Wife's cousin's offspring, because said offspring's parents have formed other attachments and aren't speaking to each other. Who the hell ever thought up the brilliant idea of a morning-after brunch for the happy couple? They're supposed to be off in some honeymoon suite fornicating their brains out...
It's those damned heterosexuals. Ban heterosexual marriage and you'll solve the problem.
*Leads to puzzling situations. Like this summer, we will have to attend two sets of wedding functions for a Wife's cousin's offspring, because said offspring's parents have formed other attachments and aren't speaking to each other. Who the hell ever thought up the brilliant idea of a morning-after brunch for the happy couple? They're supposed to be off in some honeymoon suite fornicating their brains out...
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Date: 2006-06-06 05:24 pm (UTC)Mixed marriages NEVER work.
(heh heh)
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Date: 2006-06-06 08:34 pm (UTC)Yeah. Check out any failed marriage. Odds are strong, you'll find a heterosexual. Probably two. Coincidence? I'll leave that as an exercise for the audience.