• Captain Aggravated
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    15 months ago

    Yeah in a lot of western countries we now get the ick about all the women-as-chattel-property connotations it’s always had. Watch people scramble to re-invent the meaning of the father of the bride giving her away.

    As far as I can tell, marriage is the ugliest and worst chapter of contract law, because that’s basically what a marriage is, it’s a contract. One that people tend to sign without reading or even realizing who all the named parties are. And the standard terms most people agree to aren’t all that great. “You can get divorced” yeah that process isn’t a garden trowel to the spleen, is it fellas?

    If it didn’t already exist, and someone were to try to invent the modern concept of marriage from the ground up, we would drive them out to the middle of nowhere and leave them for dead.

    • @[email protected]
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      15 months ago

      Then your country hasn’t modernized its laws. In mine the law says that both partners have equal rights and responsibilities to each other.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        15 months ago

        My country is in the process of regressing its laws, in fact. I think they’re going to outlaw literacy next year.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 months ago

          Normally I’d ask if you’re American, but I suppose many countries nowadays are going down the same path