#Freedom to Marry

[principekamar]

🌈 🌈 🌈 Love wins in Greece! 🌈 🌈 🌈 

[principekamar]

🌈 🌈 🌈 Love wins in Thailand! 🌈 🌈 🌈 

Thailand is the first country in the Southeast Asia to recognize marriage equality!

🌈 🌈 🌈

fuck yeah !!!!!!!!!

[averageludwig]

An American's biggest weakness; Cute european men

[bumblingbabooshka]

Thinking about marriage/women's rights on Vulcan Some may think that T'Pring not being allowed to divorce Spock was because he was going through the pon farr but if she were allowed to divorce him at all she probably would have done that a long time ago, confirmed by T'Pol when she's speaking with Koss, who isn't suffering from the pon farr. She says that he can choose another mate (without invoking a fight it seems: note the difference between a 'mate' and a 'challenger') and after he makes it clear that nothing she says will change his mind about marrying her, she finally threatens to declare a kal-if-fee. It's clear that Vulcan women cannot divorce/refuse to marry a man they've been betrothed to under any circumstances if A) He himself doesn't consent to ending their marriage or B) She doesn't have someone else waiting in the wings to be given to in his stead. Though, if the challenger she selects fails to win the fight, she'll have to marry her betrothed anyway unless (again) he decides he doesn't want her after the challenge. That seems like an incredibly unfair system, heavily biased towards men. SNW is an alternate universe in many obvious respects but most egregiously in that T'Pring has a lot of non-canonical agency over her relationship with Spock. It's interesting to me that Vulcan society has women in many positions of power and treats women as equal to men from what I've seen despite these laws. We don't really see Vulcans exhibiting a misogynistic attitude towards women in general but in TOS (perhaps because of its general writing style but it's still interesting to note) both Sarek and Spock take on patriarchal attitudes specifically regarding wives. Amanda says that 'of course' Sarek commands her because "he is a Vulcan and I am his wife." It's worthwhile in my eyes to note that she specifies 'wife' instead of attributing this attitude to women as a whole. Again, with TOS' writing style it wouldn't be out of place for her to say "he is a man and I am a woman." Spock, while in a pon farr induced irritation, states that it's "undignified for a woman to play servant to a man that isn't hers" - again implying that there's something specific about being a Wife in Vulcan society which is different from being a woman in general and demands subservience to a husband. This could perhaps stem from the extreme sense of ownership that Vulcan law has permitted men to have over women. A woman legally cannot point blank refuse marriage. There is no option which guarantees she won't have to marry her betrothed other than death. When T'Pau speaks of T'Pring she refers to her as being 'property' and Stonn, before being interrupted, states he's made 'the ancient claim' - we don't know what this is because he gets cut off but it's obvious they're both using the language of Vulcan law. Men are permitted true freedom to choose. If a woman wants to choose someone else to be with there is no option available to her other than the kal-if-fee which might result in the death of the one she wants to be with. And, if her lover fails, her husband can still just decide he wants to marry her and she'll be forced to. T'Pring gives two scenarios: One where Spock 'frees' her and one where he doesn't - it's still ultimately his decision which is clear when he ends the conversation with "Stonn, she is yours." This again isn't just because of the pon farr as T'Pol also goes through this. Koss can choose another mate and when the option is talked about there's no implication that this would result in any sort of fight (both by the casualness of its mention and by the fact that there's no formal word for it unlike the kal-if-fee.) Also, the fact that Koss does eventually grant T'Pol a divorce and it's all fine means that T'Pol isn't lawfully required to have another man waiting if her HUSBAND doesn't want her. It's ONLY required if SHE doesn't want her husband. Tradition must take precedence over individual desire UNLESS!!! You're a man. Then it's fine. Like, your parents might not be happy but legally you're golden.

[principekamar]

🌈 🌈 🌈 Love wins in Liechtenstein! 🌈 🌈 🌈 

Same-sex couples can now legally marry in Liechtenstein - LGBTQ Nation

[boanerges20]

Lost & Found

[principekamar]

🌈 🌈 🌈 Today, same-sex couples can share in the freedom to marry in 39 countries on all 7 continents (up from zero less than 20 years ago). Nearly 18% of the world's population – more than 1.34 billion people – now live in countries with the freedom to marry. Many other countries provide some protections, short of marriage, for such couples. As global leaders, businesses, and people around the world gradually grow to understand that families are helped, and communities and countries made stronger, by protecting all loving committed couples, the momentum for the freedom to marry and human rights worldwide will continue to advance. 🌈 🌈 🌈

Mappa aggiornata al 25/01/2025 🌈 🌈 🌈

[judejuggs]

who would we be if our mothers had lived to raise us?

[francy-sketches]

I love when asoiaf fans realize how shitty arranged marriages are but only for the male characters. Like a man could do the vilest shit to his wife and they’ll be like ‘aw poor baby he was in a loveless marriage :(‘ but god forbid a woman is mean to her husband lol

[kismetconstellations]

☆.☆.☆

[ratanslily]

At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.

Amala, Devi, Kareena and I wish all my fellow Indians 🇮🇳 a very Happy Independence Day! let us hope that we can break free from whatever holds us down, like our ancestors back then rose against British and acheived their birthright, their freedom.🧡🤍💙💚

[viscupcait]

since for me Jinx is probably alive and is on this airship:

does it mean we will get a new show about her and Lux? or maybe they will give us instead Leodia? because they said there's more stories to tell in the League of Legends, but i honestly want more lesbians...

[girliestgirlmom]

As a Pregnant Woman married to a Biracial Man & raising Daughters in America I never felt more safe ♥︎♥︎♥︎♥︎🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[principekamar]

Love wins in Greece! 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 Greece lawmakers pass the freedom to marry! 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈 🌈

🌈 🌈 🌈02-15-2024 or 15-02-2024 🌈 🌈 🌈

[cosmic-walkers]

okay im gonna get off of steve and tom wolf hall parallels but i can't get over the whole father parallel things.

the more i think about it, the more at least in the show the whole wolsey bastard situation probably pissed stephen off because he saw how dorthea was essentially treated the same way he was treated by his own father. wolsey probably reminded stephen of his own father, in a negative way. because he had to have known about it. he probably had such a high opinion of wolsey at first, and then saw how dorthea was hushed away like a nuisance, and again, that is what happened to stephen. it's like they were both punished for being born out of wedlock.

which is so funny because the contrast to thomas is that thomas also saw wolsey as his father, a father figure who saved him and whom he loved. one who would never hurt him, and actually gave him the chance to be well, him. they were both essentially 'sons' of wolsey, sons that he had brought up, both lowborn just like wolsey but they also had such different views. and stephen started to resent him, even if in secret. at least in the show - because historically wolsey and stephen were besties.

i know we don't really develop into stephen's mind, but we know his parental situation in the book is a sore spot for him and i *think* that context is left out of the show. but that would've been another awesome parallel between them.

now tho, if stephen and thomas were friends, and stephen saw how thomas treated his own bastard now that probably would've given thomas some points in his book--