ext_160172 ([identity profile] brendala.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] therightfangirl2012-10-27 08:47 pm

Sex and the Democrats

Considering the fact that the Democratic party now expects us girls to vote with our vaginas instead of our brains, I think this ad is timelier now than it was 4 years ago (the video can't be embedded. So you have to go to YouTube to see it)




Believe it or not, that "sexy" commercial was a legitimate Democrat campaign ad (some republican smart-ass just added the color commentary). I just....don't see who they thought they were appealing to. Do they really think that so many right wingers are just dying to screw them? And that we'll change our vote to get in their pants (instead of just, y'know lying or not having sex with them at all). Seriously, what the hell?

[identity profile] neverfading.livejournal.com 2012-10-31 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. And you know, the whole "marriage" issue has got me thinking:

If someone who's been divorced six times can get "married", if Kim Kardashian can be married for one month or whatever, and if Britney Spears can be married for twenty-four hours or whatever to some guy, then how meaningful is marriage, anymore?

Expanding the definition of marriage does NOT strengthen the institution of marriage. If you want to strengthen the institution of marriage, then it needs to be *harder* to get married and *harder* to get divorced, not easier.

If we really wanted to protect and bolster the value of marriage, we'd make it harder to get divorced, and maybe that would make people think twice before entering into a more binding contract.

TBH, if I were in a serious relationship right now and contemplating getting married, I think I'd just have a personal, non-legal, purely symbolic ceremony.

If the law has decided that two men are a "marriage" or two women are a "marriage" or somebody's fifth wedding is a "marriage", why would I want to participate in that institution?

Why would I want to place myself in the same category with Elizabeth Taylor or Kim Kardashian or a homosexual relationship?

Marriage is becoming meaningless.

EDIT: *harder to get divorced except in cases where there's something clearly unacceptable like physical abuse or infidelity, obviously...
Edited 2012-10-31 19:29 (UTC)

[identity profile] jacobs-muse.livejournal.com 2012-10-31 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
It's meaningless in pop culture.

It's not meaningless to all the people that enter into it with the best of intentions and love. The actual divorce rate isn't the 50-60% of the population people like to cite....the statistic is wrong as someone finally did a study on finding out if it was true vs. one poll saying it's true. It's more like 25%.

Pastors have made it 'harder' to get married for a while, requiring weeks or months of counseling sessions before they will marry a couple to make sure they're prepared. It's the civil/legal contract that's so easy to enter into. Divorces used to be harder to get at the same time women couldn't legally vote or own property, and then in more recent history when a woman had legal rights but no financial options she stayed. In a world where men and women are equal, the most common thing couples fight about is money, so when times are prosperous for the majority, less couples will split. Fix the economy, and then the rest will sort out.