Jun 28
what really gets me is that marriage has historically been a form of sexual slavery and we're just supposed to forget that, go along with the traditions and have men complain about modern marriage being unfair to THEM. in my mother tongue, the word for husband is still the same word as "owner". when she was maybe four or five years old, and my mom called our dad her husband, my baby sister got so angry she threw and shattered the glass she was holding and said "he's not your owner you're not a dog" but now she's almost twelve and has learned to accept it. it's all so transparent a young child can see how fucked up it is, and by the time that child hits puberty she will be trained out of thinking critically about marriage
