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DemocraticWing

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10. The early days of the gay liberation movement were generally anti-marriage.

Reply to FrodosPet (Original post)

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 03:17 PM

Jun 2014

I don't think there's any harm in offering the same rights to gay couples as straight couples, and personally I think I'd like to marry another man one day if I find the right one. But there have been rational arguments from within the gay community that marriage and gender roles are symptoms of a patriarchal power structure that should be rejected rather than assimilated into.

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Gay marriage is not about equality but a way of keeping women quiet [View all] FrodosPet Jun 2014 OP

Marriage has been used for eons IMO to keep the little woman in the home subservient often to RKP5637 Jun 2014 #1

What a wonderfully stupid article. Behind the Aegis Jun 2014 #2

^^ This. Iggo Jun 2014 #4

+1000 theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #6

+2000 nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #16

This gets posted, but folks are angry at a joke about Cheney Bluenorthwest Jun 2014 #3

If you think DUers are such bigots why do you post here? nt el_bryanto Jun 2014 #5

What the fuck business is it of yours? Bluenorthwest Jun 2014 #9

Fair enough. I just think you might be happier if you didn't go to a place you hated el_bryanto Jun 2014 #15

Ask yourselves this: theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #7

I've heard feminists attack heterosexual marriage plenty of times davidn3600 Jun 2014 #11

That was not my point theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #13

By the way, I think you should note that this article was from a British paper theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #8

The early days of the gay liberation movement were generally anti-marriage. DemocraticWing Jun 2014 #10

Depends on how you view marriage and the nature of your relationship theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #14

that would be religion not marriage but what do you expect, it's the guardian LOL snooper2 Jun 2014 #12

First she trashes the transgender, then she implies that gay rights activists are "doing it wrong." nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #17

I heard TONS of complaining about the institution of marriage here at DU gollygee Jun 2014 #18