{"id":26958,"date":"2015-05-26T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=26958"},"modified":"2015-05-19T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-19T11:06:20","slug":"qotd-feminism-and-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/05\/26\/qotd-feminism-and-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Feminism and marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not merely the feminist foot soldiers out in the gender fields that are prime examples of the new feminist lockstep. You see it in the theory end of the business, as well, the sincere striving for what Gandhi called \u201ccomplete harmony of thought and word and deed.\u201d Recently, Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism project, wrote an article for <em>The Guardian<\/em> in which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2014\/jun\/28\/can-a-feminist-be-a-bride-laura-bates\" target=\"_blank\">she asked<\/a>, \u201cCan a woman who\u2019s fought for equality and respect, against sexism and misogyny, become a bride?\u201d Bates laments that the ritual of marriage \u201cis riddled with patriarchal symbolism;\u201d she notes with approval the wedding of some feminist friends in which, concerning the bridal party, \u201cnobody\u2019s role is dictated by their gender;\u201d she lambasts the \u201csexist undertones\u201d to be found in the traditional throwing of the bouquet; and sums up \u201cThe great name conundrum\u201d by declaring that \u201cchanging her name erases [the bride\u2019s] identity as a separate individual.\u201d If you want to make a wedding even more exhausting and harried than it already is, go Full Feminist on it.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Payne, <a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/07\/22\/the-many-fabricated-enemies-of-feminists\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Many Fabricated Enemies of Feminists&#8221;, <em>The Federalist<\/em><\/a>, 2014-07-22.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not merely the feminist foot soldiers out in the gender fields that are prime examples of the new feminist lockstep. You see it in the theory end of the business, as well, the sincere striving for what Gandhi called \u201ccomplete harmony of thought and word and deed.\u201d Recently, Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,41],"tags":[987,622,303,43],"class_list":["post-26958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-quotations","tag-feminism","tag-ideology","tag-sexism","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-70O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26958"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26959,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions\/26959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}