Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think democracy makes women lesbian/bi. But windmills cause cancer and Epstein killed himself so the world is filled with surprises.
It’s about the breakdown in traditional gender roles. In a “traditional” marriage the man goes to work and the woman does household stuff.
Put another way a traditional western household needs both a man and a woman, and it actively doesn’t work if you don’t have both because a woman would not have been able to go to work and make any sort of reasonable wage capable of taking care of a household and a man would not have been able to respectably take care of a household. Victorians would not have considered two men or two women living with each other a household or a marriage because part of their definition of a marriage, men, and women are their social roles.
Gay/lesbian marriage only makes sense in a world where some semblance of gender equality exists and these kinds of social roles aren’t so gender exclusive. The original comic is fearmongering the possibility of a more equal social order where it’s even possible to consider women being able to become enough like men that they could marry other women.
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minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 30 pts · 73d
Maybe I'm wrong but I don't think democracy makes women lesbian/bi. But windmills cause cancer and Epstein killed himself so the world is filled with surprises.
TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website · 19 pts · 73d
lemongarlic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 70d
It’s about the breakdown in traditional gender roles. In a “traditional” marriage the man goes to work and the woman does household stuff.
Put another way a traditional western household needs both a man and a woman, and it actively doesn’t work if you don’t have both because a woman would not have been able to go to work and make any sort of reasonable wage capable of taking care of a household and a man would not have been able to respectably take care of a household. Victorians would not have considered two men or two women living with each other a household or a marriage because part of their definition of a marriage, men, and women are their social roles.
Gay/lesbian marriage only makes sense in a world where some semblance of gender equality exists and these kinds of social roles aren’t so gender exclusive. The original comic is fearmongering the possibility of a more equal social order where it’s even possible to consider women being able to become enough like men that they could marry other women.
janus2@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 73d
i need a print of this lol
happy ye olde pride
tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 73d
I’m doing my part!
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 73d
No one ever mentions it but that dog is bisexual too.