This edition of Feminism Friday is being brought to you by The Week’s Meghan DeMaria:
https://twitter.com/AndrewStilesUSA/status/538400492347334656
Let Meghan complain explain some more:
The engagement ring is a sort of 21st-century dowry in the Western world, too. The traditional two-month salary rule not only signals a man’s interest in spending a life with his partner, it inadvertently sets the relationship up for a lifetime of inequality. It’s vestigial sexism at which no one seems to blink.
If anything, women are more to blame for the sexism of the male proposal. Instagram and Facebook posts of sparkly rings — complete with the obligatory “oohs” and “aahs” — perpetuate the idea that women’s affections can be purchased.
So maybe it’s time for couples to rethink the meaning of engagement rings and male proposals. In a society where many wives work and keep their last names, the male proposal seems terribly antiquated.
And Meghan seems terribly irritating.
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/538402267947601920
Please make this stupidity stop spreading. RT @Matthops82: Oh, FFS RT @AndrewStilesUSA: makes you think. http://t.co/afcyanXeV9
— Michelle Ray (@GaltsGirl) November 28, 2014
For crying out loud! MT @GaltsGirl: Please make this stupidity stop spreading. RT @AndrewStilesUSA: makes you think. http://t.co/YEO5xD5f7w
— Matthew Balan ن (@MatthewJLB) November 28, 2014
“@AndrewStilesUSA: makes you think. http://t.co/EqqF9nsLNS” FOR F*CKS SAKE. Feminism is ruining everything. #tcot
— Heather?? (@Maven_History) November 28, 2014
Seriously.
@AndrewStilesUSA she’s going to be really angry when she finds out husbands never take their wife’s name.
— John Ekdahl (@JohnEkdahl) November 28, 2014
@JohnEkdahl @AndrewStilesUSA or where babies come from.
— Sanjay (@SanjayKurian) November 28, 2014
Whoops!
Parting question:
https://twitter.com/ChrisBarnhart/status/538402506108182528
Ooo …
https://twitter.com/Matthops82/status/538402589482971136