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2017-09-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Bull$hit. Most of it is so they can claim more benefits.

Posted by gorb 2017-09-26 01:25|| 2017-09-26 01:25|| Front Page Top

#2 gorb - I concur - the NYT isn't even close to acknowledging that the flightiness of the the 1969 revolution, alongside the Johnson rewards for being unmarried (they continue to grow with more kids), as well as the predation to legally capture targets of unsuspecting guys for financial gain.

Posted by Fairbanks 2017-09-26 03:01|| 2017-09-26 03:01|| Front Page Top

#3 When you are out to destroy the middle class, ~~successful~~ bourgeois values are among the main targets.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-26 07:09|| 2017-09-26 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not that the poor don't marry so much as the married don't stay poor.

Posted by Glenmore 2017-09-26 14:29|| 2017-09-26 14:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Marriage is a privilege. I started to type "white privilege" since these two words have recently been wedded together so frequently. The NYT's writer must never have had a really, really bad marriage--one that is both scary and scarring. Those who have had such a marriage don't usually think of the word "privilege"--they usually think of "escape."

Posted by JohnQC 2017-09-26 16:18|| 2017-09-26 16:18|| Front Page Top

#6 'Privilege' is the SJW code word for success. Given the Left is a long trail of failure, they can't accept the problem is within themselves.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-26 17:43|| 2017-09-26 17:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Good grief. I'm white, male, heterosexual, AND married. I'm totally screwed!

Next thing you know they'll be telling us that anyone over 6' tall has "height privilege." In which case, I'm double-screwed.

Posted by eltoroverde 2017-09-26 18:45|| 2017-09-26 18:45|| Front Page Top

#8 'Privilege' is the SJW code word for success.

I totally forget where I saw it, but somebody said, "When you say 'white privilege', what you mean is my culture is better than yours".

tl;dr: "acting white", even if you are not, is a better way to get ahead in America than tribal savagery.

Posted by SteveS 2017-09-26 22:09|| 2017-09-26 22:09|| Front Page Top

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