I have friends who are Afghan who have had arranged marriages so this led me to be curious to ask, why does this practice still persist into the 21st century?

  • @AnalogyAddict
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    58 months ago

    I don’t know. There’s an even chance my parents would have been better at picking my husband than I was.

    • beefbot
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      28 months ago

      Eh. There’s a BIG difference between you making a questionable decision on your own and someone else forcing you into their questionable decision

      • @AnalogyAddict
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        158 months ago

        You do know that arranged marriage and forced marriage are different things, right?

        • @dezmd
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          47 months ago

          You do know the two overlap rather consistently from the context of the females’ choice in most cultures where it persists, right?

          • @AnalogyAddict
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            47 months ago

            That doesn’t mean they should be conflated.

            • @dezmd
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              07 months ago

              It means they are conflated, even if you don’t like that they are.

              • @AnalogyAddict
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                7 months ago

                Only for people with an inability to comprehend rudimentary semantics.

                • @dezmd
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                  07 months ago

                  Projecting one’s denial of rational semantics is a comprehension problem on its own.