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Literature
Marriage Needs To Go Marriage Needs To Go
Marriage is a social construct.
There, I said it.
It's one of those ancient traditions that everyone treats like sacred truth—even though it's really just about wanting government approval for feelings you already have.
My parents weren't married, so I grew up with an outside eye on all of it. Marriage never made sense to me as a child—and as I got older, I realized the reason it never made sense was because it isn't supposed to. And for some reason, we've all agreed to keep pretending it does.
Let's stop pretending marriage is noble or necessary. It's time to call it what it really is: a leftover relic that should've gone extinct with witch-burnings and dowries.
Why Marriage Is Dumb
It's Sexist:
Marriage is a religious tradition rooted in sexism.
It was invented as a property-transfer contract between men—a woman was property to be given away by her father and owned by her husband, her worth tied to her purity, fertility and obedience. The white dress
