Jul 16, 2021
Who’s the married prankster that decided it’d be a brilliant idea to indoctrinate children with the concept that a man and a woman cohabitating until death is paramount to living a fulfilled life? I understand that for our species to proliferate for the first 40,000 years this coupling was necessary, but now we have Baby Einstein and Uber Eats.
As children, we were left to discover the disparity between
masculinity and femininity and how love and sex are viewed through
vastly different lenses. And these obvious dissimilarities have
been experienced endlessly, however very few young adults address
the obvious, blindly convinced that their love is the
exception.
Yet, we have a 50 percent divorce rate in America.
I didn’t make that up.
As we know, physical chemistry can be irresistible, but is it
imperative to lock the person down with a contract and a finger
shackle to validate their love? That sounds like entrapment to
me.
Listen, I’m on your side, people, but someone has to be the bad guy
and say something because you little princesses are force-fed the
fantastic narrative that a hero will battle his way to bend a knee
at your feet, completing you as a woman. And until that undeterred
romantic appears with a bowed head, pretty much everything you do
is in preparation for a life with this mystery dude. Then
eventually, when you’ve kissed a ton of toads to no avail, you
finally settle for Mr. Right Now.
Isn’t the idea of a “soul mate” is an oxymoron anyway?
Sure, marriage sounds like a great idea when there’s a honeymoon to
look forward to, but when reality strikes, not everyone is prepared
for the repetition.
All men and women are not created equal.
And neither is all bud.
They didn’t tell us that, either.