![]() ![]() ![]() It would take away the absurdity of impossible commitment, of property rights to other human beings' thoughts and acts and time. Sometimes when I get most frustrated about the bitter unfairness of denying people same-sex marriage out of tradition or piety, I wonder if the solution is not to abolish marriage as a legal concept completely, rather than allowing it to all lovers. A promise given to be broken despite best of intentions, best of ambitions, best of ideas. I suspect the answer is that there is no such thing as a happy life lived within the unquestioned "ideal" of the conventional family, where partners promise to love each other and belong to each other until death does them part. Why do I know countless educated women today, working full-time in highly skilled jobs, while raising children and decorating homes and cooking dinners and going to the gym to keep fit and beautiful in their forties and fifties - feeling that problem without a name lurking underneath the polished surface? Why do I recognise the desperation anyway then? ![]() "The Problem That Has No Name" - today we would probably not see it in the utter meaninglessness and boredom of the isolated housewife in Betty Friedan's description, as the pendulum of time has once again swung and moved towards more equality between men and women - at least in my privileged part of the world. ![]()
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