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tropesarenotbad:
lesbianshepard:
do people not realize that christianity didn’t invent marriage and has no claim to the definition of it?
FUN FACT
Every culture on the planet has marriage!
No two cultures have the same definition of it!
Anthropologists keep trying to find the Universal Marriage Description that spans the majority of uses and they have a bunch that are close but not quite, because even though it looks like something like “creates sexual monopoly” that doesn’t always work (but it comes close) and there’s some stuff about economics, and some stuff about childrearing, but all of these things are fuzzy when you look at culture on the grand scale
it’s a glorious clusterfuck of humanity because every culture has this concept that people want partners and they want to publicly display their status as somebody with a partner but nobody agrees on what “partners” means.
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tropesarenotbad:
lesbianshepard:
do people not realize that christianity didn’t invent marriage and has no claim to the definition of it?
FUN FACT
Every culture on the planet has marriage!
No two cultures have the same definition of it!
Anthropologists keep trying to find the Universal Marriage Description that spans the majority of uses and they have a bunch that are close but not quite, because even though it looks like something like “creates sexual monopoly” that doesn’t always work (but it comes close) and there’s some stuff about economics, and some stuff about childrearing, but all of these things are fuzzy when you look at culture on the grand scale
it’s a glorious clusterfuck of humanity because every culture has this concept that people want partners and they want to publicly display their status as somebody with a partner but nobody agrees on what “partners” means.
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