the thing about marriage...

One of the most pressing issues today is that of marriage. Now, I have a few bones to pick with marriage. First, the marriage craze. Women are supposed to be man-obsessed, love-obsessed, relationship-obsessed fools. Please pump out those bridal magazines at full force, for the easily influenced twenty-somethings trying to figure out who they are. No, wait. For the starry-eyed teenagers experiencing their first taste of love, or lust, or whatever it is that one experiences in high school. Better yet, keep playing those damsel-in-distress Disney films for your children, so that your daughters in the princess dresses grow up with the idea that they need a man to rescue them so that they’ll live happily ever after imprinted on their brains. This is all part of the anti-feminist movement. Who prints these magazines and writes these movies? Men. The big white republican Man. He makes the money off of the marriage circus, and he reaps the benefits of women being dependent on men. Why fight for equal rights if all we’re thinking about is men? What are equal pay and reproductive rights when we have a guy to come home to who makes decisions for us? I can’t help but be in shock when I find all of my friends getting married, when I so strongly disagree with the faux-religious and prejudice practice. Secondly, if we’re all supposed to be marriage maniacs, then why isn’t this key to happiness available for everyone? Because self-righteous bigots everywhere made it so, that’s why. What are they so afraid of? Are homosexuals a different species set out to ruin marriage and families everywhere?! I don’t think so. We’re people, just like you. We laugh, cry, and dream just like you do. I’ve met homosexual trophy wives. She still dares to dream of marrying and being a stay at home mother in pearls and Manolos, not deterred by the fact that she’s been in a relationship with a woman for over a year. I’ve met straight-laced white republican men who want nothing more than to curl up next to a man at night. I’ve met sorority girl lesbians who hide their relationships from unforgiving peers. I’ve met gay men so hip, trendy, and flamingly homosexual that their parents were relieved when they finally came out of the closet. I’ve met more heart and soul in the gay community that I’ve ever seen my entire straight, southern-Baptist life. These people band together like no group of people I’ve ever seen. Dykes, queers, gays, drag queens, transsexuals and all will forget their differences and hold hands, and despite their broken hearts, march with their heads up to the capital building to DEMAND equal rights. They were denied them, yet again. But I have faith that one day, we won’t be denied equal human rights. We will be free to love whoever our heart chooses, without judgment or punishment. Until that day, gay and straights alike must fight for the right for everyone to be equal. Marriage is an oppressive institution created by men to trap women and squash their desire for equality. To allow everyone to be free to marry and enjoy the financial and stability benefits of being married is to bring marriage into a new light. It will not destroy the family, but create more families and loving homes. It will not ruin the religious practice, but restore faith in religion for millions of people everywhere.