Things that I find gross and sexist about marriage
- When the dude asks team brides father for her hand in marriage
- When the father gives the bride away
- When the bride is supposed to take the husband’s last name
Also a bonus points for things I find gross and sexist about proposals
- When a guy tries to pressure his partner into saying yes by proposing very publicly and then she is vilified and he receives sympathy if she says no
French mayor would consider marrying two women, but never two men
advocate.comClaude Binaud, the 77-year-old mayor of a town in southwestern France, is pushing back against the country’s new marriage equality law by refusing to marry two men — though he says he might consider marrying a lesbian couple.
“There’s no doubt, I will not marry them, not two boys,” Binaud told local daily paper Sud-Ouest. “I don’t find [gay marriage] normal. We’re touching on something central to society here — the family.”
But that concern for family is apparently what led the mayor to speculate that he might marry two women, if he were forced to do so.
“Two girls, I might have said yes, if my back was against the wall,” continued Binaud. “But that’s totally different — they can have children.”
Tough luck for him; France’s interior minister recently declared that mayors who violate the marriage equality law could be subject to up to three years in prison and a fine of 45,000 Euros. Boom.
