The basic concept of marriage I totally disagree with...
1. I don't believe that the woman should take the man's name because it's all about the female, she's the gateway of life, food for the baby comes from her body, and the establisher of the relationship and family, and so if a name has to be assumed, then it should be the male assuming the woman's name. Because the gift of life comes from the woman. It's as Mary McCleod Bethune once said:
"Next to God we are indebted to women. First for life itself and then making it worth living."
So the man should be taking the woman's name. For the woman to assume the man's name is backwards, and I don't agree with it. For that reason alone I could never get married.
2. And then the basic concept of marriage glides downhill from there.... Since the woman starts right off abandoning her identity for the man's, everything else about her is dedicated in his favor, which I also disagree with. It's like launching a nuclear missile at life itself and then expecting it to flourish from the wreckage.
And I hear so many of the same stories from women who express how good their relationship was before getting married, and then suddenly after the marriage he changed and became demanding of her surrender of herself to him. It's insanity when you think about it.
At the wedding ceremony, the woman wraps herself in a gift wrap looking dress and presents herself as a package to the male. A piece of property being given to him. I find this extremely disturbing and impossible for me to go along with. If it were up to me, I would abolish marriage and make it illegal because I see it as an act of enslavement, a violation to the value of women, and a false idolization of the male. i'm not saying that people shouldn't tie the knot of monogamy, but that the way we do it is backwards. It's literally blasphemy.
1. I don't believe that the woman should take the man's name because it's all about the female, she's the gateway of life, food for the baby comes from her body, and the establisher of the relationship and family, and so if a name has to be assumed, then it should be the male assuming the woman's name. Because the gift of life comes from the woman. It's as Mary McCleod Bethune once said:
"Next to God we are indebted to women. First for life itself and then making it worth living."
So the man should be taking the woman's name. For the woman to assume the man's name is backwards, and I don't agree with it. For that reason alone I could never get married.
2. And then the basic concept of marriage glides downhill from there.... Since the woman starts right off abandoning her identity for the man's, everything else about her is dedicated in his favor, which I also disagree with. It's like launching a nuclear missile at life itself and then expecting it to flourish from the wreckage.
And I hear so many of the same stories from women who express how good their relationship was before getting married, and then suddenly after the marriage he changed and became demanding of her surrender of herself to him. It's insanity when you think about it.
At the wedding ceremony, the woman wraps herself in a gift wrap looking dress and presents herself as a package to the male. A piece of property being given to him. I find this extremely disturbing and impossible for me to go along with. If it were up to me, I would abolish marriage and make it illegal because I see it as an act of enslavement, a violation to the value of women, and a false idolization of the male. i'm not saying that people shouldn't tie the knot of monogamy, but that the way we do it is backwards. It's literally blasphemy.
