Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

silmaril's 250x250 "bored meme" again, even though I wasn't actually bored, just needed to do something different for a few minutes.

"I think that now, what I need to do is to write a letter to Shrub explaining that if anything, I think that SF's bumper crop of newly-married same-sex couples has renewed my faith in what marriage can be, and has done more in a few short days to remove my cynicism about marriage as an institution (as a heteropatriarchal property exchange, as an occasion of virtually mandatory conspicuous consumption, as a reinscription of sexist/classist values, etc.) than anything else ever has. In fact, I feel far more inclined to actually marry my (nominally heterosexual) partner of 7 years *now* than I ever have in the past, because I feel like what I want my marriage to be and the values I hold dear in my partnership have had a bit of a public renaissance, a bit of long-awaited democratization, and a whole lot of very overdue ethical detoxification." -- misia, 2004-02-20