It occurs to me how incredibly, ridiculously ironic it is that we are getting this from the LGB community (T's a different story). Because. You know. What has been one of the main concerns of the LGB movement (especially the L and G parts) in various Western countries over the past few decades?
Same-sex marriage.
And, as far as I know, a lot of the main arguments go along the lines of: it is unfair that people's important relationships get treated differently just because they're both of the same gender, it is unfair that they are excluded from numerous benefits such as visa rights, tax benefits, adoption rights, visitation rights, and so on and so forth, it is unfair that their relationships get treated as though they were "just friends" and the love, importance and commitment is erased.
And these people are now telling us that we should have no problems whatsoever fitting our deep, loving, committed long-term partnerships into "friendship". As if none of those things in the above paragraph could possibly ever apply to us.
(Or, you know, telling us that our relationships have to be romantic, and I am still staring at the comment going "..........what." Especially given, you know, that in that same comment thread I'd talked about agonising for years over whether the relationship I had and the ones I wanted were "romantic or friendship" and not getting anywhere because neither of the two fit.)
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Date: 2011-08-24 02:36 pm (UTC)Same-sex marriage.
And, as far as I know, a lot of the main arguments go along the lines of: it is unfair that people's important relationships get treated differently just because they're both of the same gender, it is unfair that they are excluded from numerous benefits such as visa rights, tax benefits, adoption rights, visitation rights, and so on and so forth, it is unfair that their relationships get treated as though they were "just friends" and the love, importance and commitment is erased.
And these people are now telling us that we should have no problems whatsoever fitting our deep, loving, committed long-term partnerships into "friendship". As if none of those things in the above paragraph could possibly ever apply to us.
(Or, you know, telling us that our relationships have to be romantic, and I am still staring at the comment going "..........what." Especially given, you know, that in that same comment thread I'd talked about agonising for years over whether the relationship I had and the ones I wanted were "romantic or friendship" and not getting anywhere because neither of the two fit.)