Comments on: Leaping into Marriage

By: Naomi

Naomi — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:06:44 +0000

Tsk. Stealth lesbians - very rude. How on earth are people going to judge others properly if they won’t make their labels obvious, dammit?

Here’s to confusion!

By: Riayn

Riayn — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:26:30 +0000

Naomi: Actually my hair is the reason that most people think I’m straight. I was told once “you can’t be gay, you have long hair”. Apparently I’m a stealth lesbian.

By: Naomi

Naomi — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:14:06 +0000

It will be so, Riayn. Worst case scenario, our kids are going to wake up one morning and say, “Why on earth is that antiquated thing still in place? We can have sex with whoever we want, but we can’t make a legal commitment to stand by them? What the hell?”

“There is a reason that the powers that be made me a dyke and that is because I have zero tolerance level for all this stupid “the man must do this because it is tradition” stuff that seems to dominate the lives of a scarily large percentage of women.”

Hmmm… is THAT why people think I’m a lesbian? I thought it was the hair

By: Riayn

Riayn — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 09:10:11 +0000

Kelley: I really hope that same-sex marriage is made legal long before our grandkids’ time, but as time goes on, my hopes that this will be so are fading.

By: magneto bold too

magneto bold too — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:29:21 +0000

Well I got proposed to twice today. Once from a chick. She pink puffy hearts me but um, even if I wasn’t married I would have turned her down. Not my type.

The other one was from a married guy. LMAO. I think he missed the point?

Anyway, we managed to get the ‘Sorry’ from the govt….. perhaps our grandchildren will be able to marry whomever they choose?

By: Riayn

Riayn — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:29:30 +0000

Bettina: Well that is certainly one way to be proposed to.

Guera: Unfortunately, it was my great-grandmother who was Scottish, so too far removed to claim citizenship.

Lelak: I know, my love, it sucks.

By: lelak

lelak — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:41:55 +0000

I just missed out on a British passport.

By: Guera

Guera — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:55:11 +0000

I heard on Triple J the other day that if one partner in a same sex relationship is a British Citizen you can get married under UK law at the British Embassy or consulate in Sydney (technically it is British soil). Thought I’d mention it since you said “the Scottish in me” and might be a British citizen! I agree the same sex marriage laws in Australia are long overdue. I just don’t understand how we can make such inroads into sexual and racial discrimination laws and ignore sexual preference discrimination.
I’m also not a fan of the big display proposal - too easy to get swept up in the romance rather than think clearly about a very important decision.

By: Bettina

Bettina — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:18:40 +0000

my hubby didn’t ask, he simply announced……… to 30 of our family and friends! lol He’s about as romantic as a brick and women who hook up with romantic bricks then try to make them into something else are wasting their time. Me, I like practical.

By: Mr Teufel

Mr Teufel — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:05:41 +0000

The recent AAMI ad and the football groun ad both featured extreme measures being used to encourage a marriage proposal. In fact the latter was blatant entrapment. They make me grind my teeth.