Yeah, the normalization of jealousy is sort of sad. There is nothing wrong with feeling jealous or insecure, but there is definitely something wrong with expecting the people around you to constantly adjust their lives to accommodate those feelings.

That stupid ‘Be a Helena Bonham Carter’ meme. Ugh. No thanks, In a world of Kardashians and Helena Bonham Carters, I’m going to go ahead and be myself. Fuck all of that hateful bullshit.

I eventually just stopped responding. This person is either a troll or an idiot. Either way, it isn’t worth engaging.

Counterpoint: It is amazing and I love it.

In steamy textual conversation, I appreciate a decent photo of abs. (Note for dudes: only send these photos if your abs are worth looking at)

Oh dear. I see that you are trying so hard to make a point using rudimentary critical thinking, so I’ll help you out.

Nah, that is literally what you said:

So... you aren’t saying that you think that women don’t enjoy sex and thus cannot possibly benefit from sex in a marriage?

So you were just totally derailing the topic to perpetuate the myth that women hate sex.

I am absolutely not American. I am Canadian, from the land of the gender-nonspecific parental leave.

So... you’re saying that neither women nor men can claim children as a benefit of marriage. Sure, cool. I’m saying that the security of coparenting is a benefit for both, and you are insisting that this is somehow wrong because women have to give birth.

Cool, so why don’t you actually tell me, then? You’ve said a lot of things you don’t think. You don’t think that the solution is that men should be encouraged to coparent. You don’t think that men can have children outside of marriage (that was right there in the post I originally commented on). So do you believe that…

I do not think I could possibly roll my eyes harder at this line of thought. Women don’t need marriage to acquire children, neither do men. Having children is simply more convenient in a marriage. Obviously, every child has to be birthed by a woman, but that is the case regardless of the marital status of the mother.…

There is a reason I said ‘partner’ and not ‘wife’. Plenty of men (and it is becoming more common) are choosing to make that sacrifice so that their female partners can move forward in their careers. I actually had a stay-at-home dad myself, and that was back in the ‘80s.

Of course! But the point being made here is that marriage provides both partners with regular sex and procreation. There are ways for both men and women to get both sex and children out of wedlock, but marriage does provide both partners with regular sex, children, and the security of a coparent. I am not suggesting…

I would say the source of gender inequality is a fundemental belief that women are inferior (or ‘different’) to men. Gender inequality in marriages is a symptom of that general inequality. Gender inequality definitely predates marriage, which makes it pretty unlikely that it is caused by marriage.

That is absolutely ridiculous. None of your arguments have supported that conclusion whatsoever. Yes, the patriarchy exists. Yes, every aspect of our society is sexist. That doesn’t make marriage inherently any more sexist than anything else. By your logic, women had better stop working, too, because workplaces are…

You’ve got a lot to say about systemic injustices between the genders that I don’t disagree with, I just think it’s really silly of you to tie it up to marriage. Those exact same injustices colour every romance, friendship, or working relationship you will ever have with a man. Do you suggest that women pack up and…

Women still ‘traditionally’ (and that is what we are talking about, no?) require the help of a man to produce children. Marriage ‘traditionally’ provides men with better incentive to stick around and help raise them.

But all of that is nonsense. It is a popular misconception that women have lower sex drives than men, and don’t want to have sex with their husbands. It is 2016, women will either feel obligated to have sex or not feel obligated to have sex - marriage doesn’t change that, and marital rape has been illegal in North…