The Daily Mail Say: "Men will be 'wives' and women will be 'husbands' as British gay marriage laws r
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Wives can be men and husbands could be women under bizarre word play introduced by the government.
The introduction of gay marriage means old laws which gave protections or benefits to husbands or wives will become outdated.
So ministers have drawn up ‘gobbledegook’ rules which overrule the dictionary and scrap the centuries-old definitions of male and female spouses.
Read more: [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2350532/Men-wives-women-husbands-gay-marriage-laws-overrule-dictionaries.html#ixzz2XiKi0pfe[/url]
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Those comments are just fucking shameful.
I was hoping this was going to be a bad opinion piece. Should've known better considering it's the Daily Mail.
[QUOTE=Mr_Awesome;41251439]Those comments are just fucking shameful.[/QUOTE]
That's what happens when a moron discovers how to use the internet
so doesn't that logically mean that men will still be husbands and women will still be wives? think about it. wives will be husbands and husbands will be wives - so wives will be wives and husbands will be husbands.
[quote]So ministers have drawn up ‘gobbledegook’ rules which overrule the dictionary and scrap the centuries-old definitions of male and female spouses.[/quote]Sorry but what's wrong with up to date definitions?
[QUOTE=Cone;41251457]so doesn't that logically mean that men will still be husbands and women will still be wives? think about it. wives will be husbands and husbands will be wives - so wives will be wives and husbands will be husbands.[/QUOTE]
I'm confused.
[quote=the Daily Mail]the ruyling has been crtiicised[/quote]
lol
THE DAILY MAIL, EVERYBODY
'ohh yeah the uk is the most tolerant country in the world :)) everyone is so nice and u get pegged for calling people faggots or queers or if u single people out based on their race!'
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disregard the above statement
i have just learned that the daily mail is equivalent to fox news
it all makes sense now
another massive non-issue being inflated to national crisis level by the mail
Ah the Daily Mail comment section, where the internet meets learning disabilities.
i like how their argument of saying men will be 'wives' and woman will be 'husbands' doesnt even sound like a bad thing, marriage shouldn't have 'gender-roles' at all, its GOOD that we are breaking from the stereotypical 'perfect family'
[QUOTE=download;41251450]That's what happens when a moron discovers how to use the internet[/QUOTE]
Also known as, Daily Mail readers
[QUOTE=Aspen;41251492]'ohh yeah the uk is the most tolerant country in the world :)) everyone is so nice and u get pegged for calling people faggots or queers or if u single people out based on their race!'[/QUOTE]
daily mail =/= the uk
[QUOTE=Generic Monk;41251526]daily mail =/= the uk[/QUOTE]
i see.. well
edited my post
<3 u
I sometimes wonder if the journalists at the Daily Mail watch Alan Partridge and think it's a documentary
[QUOTE=Mr_Awesome;41251439]Those comments are just fucking shameful.[/QUOTE]
They are hilarious!
That doesn't seem so bad. I'd finally have a sugar mama
[QUOTE=Aspen;41251492]'ohh yeah the uk is the most tolerant country in the world :)) everyone is so nice and u get pegged for calling people faggots or queers or if u single people out based on their race!'
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disregard the above statement
i have just learned that the daily mail is equivalent to fox news
it all makes sense now[/QUOTE]
the Daily Fail isn't even on Fox News' level. It's scraping 6 feet under where the bottom of the barrel used to be and then blaming their imbecility on everyone else.
When I was a kid I thought spouse meant wife but it works both ways.
It's quite dumb how daily mail readers throw a fit about it though. Amazing.
Am I the only one thinking that, while it isn't a bad thing, referring to men as wives and women as husbands sounds kinda weird? Not in the "ew gross those gays are disgusting" sense, just that it doesn't seem to roll off the tongue as easily.
[QUOTE=Kirbunny431;41251654]Am I the only one thinking that, while it isn't a bad thing, referring to men as wives and women as husbands sounds kinda weird? Not in the "ew gross those gays are disgusting" sense, just that it doesn't seem to roll off the tongue as easily.[/QUOTE]
not really. it's not like "an historic event"/"a historic event" which just sounds ludicrous whichever way you say it
For once I see where they are coming from. The government could have spared a lot of ill feeling towards the bill by simply making civil partnerships have the same rights as married couples, without angering religious groups etc. After all, marriage is defined as the union between a man and a woman, so for the state to change the definition of a word is a bit odd.
I don't know what half of that Daily Fail article is saying though. If the definition of marriage has changed, why would one person in a same-sex relationship be a gender defined role anyway? That what the change has addressed.
[QUOTE=Memobot;41251901]For once I see where they are coming from. The government could have spared a lot of ill feeling towards the bill by simply making civil partnerships have the same rights as married couples, without angering religious groups etc. After all, marriage is defined as the union between a man and a woman[/QUOTE]
ok, but that's not a particularly inclusive definition so why not change it?
[QUOTE=BFG9000;41251486]I'm confused.[/QUOTE]
X is Y and Y is X, okay? so that means that Y, being identical to X in every way, has to also be itself. the same thing applies to X. so X is X, and Y is Y.
Fucking tabloid journalism
I do think it is a bit silly labeling people as a wife or husband regardless of gender but I doubt anyone will use it anyway so its not really a big deal.
No homosexual man is gonna call their other half, their "wife" and vice versa for women, so whats the big deal?
gobbledegook
gobble the cock?
How will we ever live without our gender roles?!?!
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