Sparkle opened his mouth, and then kind of waved a hand around.
"It hasn't really been banned," he noted. "I mean, like, forcing somebody to is banned as fuck, but like, pressuring, like, a wife..."
He sighed.
"God, this is fucking hard," he muttered. "Marriage is... like... a commitment between two people, ideally. And in some places it's still about ownership, and here it's supposed to be about love, but sometimes it's just... convenient. Maybe like two people have been fucking and she gets knocked up and there's gonna be a kid, and they marry because that's just... what people do. It's an old stupid mindset that's just as much a religious hangup as it's a sexist one, and about power, and..."
He paused to take a long drink.
"It causes problems, and not everyone buys into it, and for the smart people, marriage is more about having certain rights between two people be protected by law."
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"It hasn't really been banned," he noted. "I mean, like, forcing somebody to is banned as fuck, but like, pressuring, like, a wife..."
He sighed.
"God, this is fucking hard," he muttered. "Marriage is... like... a commitment between two people, ideally. And in some places it's still about ownership, and here it's supposed to be about love, but sometimes it's just... convenient. Maybe like two people have been fucking and she gets knocked up and there's gonna be a kid, and they marry because that's just... what people do. It's an old stupid mindset that's just as much a religious hangup as it's a sexist one, and about power, and..."
He paused to take a long drink.
"It causes problems, and not everyone buys into it, and for the smart people, marriage is more about having certain rights between two people be protected by law."