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Love and marriage

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on June 26, 2013 by RachelAugust 22, 2013

Today, the Supreme Court struck down DOMA and the California law that prevented same-sex couples to marry. It’s about time! I am all for the removal of legally imposed discrimination that had been on the legal books for way too …
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Posted in Feminism, Singles By Choice | Tagged marriage, matrimania, right to marry, same-sex marriage, singlism | 4 Replies

Singlism and Sexism Interact

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on October 25, 2010 by RachelApril 19, 2013

Reading an article on the underlying framework that can help evaluate affirmative action, I realized why single women are viewed so much more negatively than single men. It’s the interaction of sexism and singlism. Wasserstrom wrote in 1977 describing the …
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Posted in Feminism, Quick note, Singles By Choice | Tagged marriage, sexism, singlism | 10 Replies

Marriage – An Evil Institution?

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on July 22, 2010 by RachelApril 19, 2013

In her 2007 essay “Gay Divorce: Thoughts on the Legal Regulation of Marriage,” Claudia Card argues that marriage is an evil institution. An evil institution consists of two foreseeable and causally linked components: “Culpable wrongdoing and intolerable harm” (30). Marriage, …
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Posted in Philosophy, Singles By Choice | Tagged marriage, matrimania, singlism | 5 Replies

Wedding Rings

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on July 15, 2010 by RachelApril 19, 2013

I’ve been reading a lot about stereotypes and prejudices lately. Fifty years after Allport wrote his Nature of Prejudice, a compilation came out that reviews and updates his work. Underneath stereotypes and prejudices is the process of categorization. Allport suggested …
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Posted in Quick note, Singles By Choice | Tagged marriage, matrimania, wedding | 1 Reply

Is Marriage an Outdated Institution?

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on March 28, 2010 by RachelApril 19, 2013

Somehow I stumbled on the World Values Survey, a cross-national survey that asks among other things “Is marriage an outdated institution?”. I don’t have time to dig into the data a whole lot but I thought I’d share some interesting …
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Marriage Promotion in TANF

Rachels Gedankenkasten | Rachel's Musings Posted on February 3, 2010 by RachelApril 19, 2013

The Alternatives for Marriage Project has been fighting to get marriage promotion out of TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) for years. Unfortunately, it looks like the new HHS Budget not only continues with this practice from the Bush era …
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