Recently I posted a bleeding heart editorial on same-sex marriage. Well, as often as it can happen to me, I’m having one of those dual personality moments. Frankly, I’m all broken up whilst hearing about everybody’s damn rights.
This is especially true when I hear about the benefits of marriage and “family values.” The word “value” is often implemented in regard to many things to suggest a worth beyond an opinion. I guess people like me have “single values.”
Speaking of marriage benefits, what benefits do I get being single? A single guy like me with no dependents gets squat. Moreover, how easy is it for single people who want to adopt? Do you really want to make all the categories of marriage equal? I have a great idea. Give everyone who wants to get married; male, female, or neutered, the same thing I get. Nothing. There is true marriage equality for you; all marriages get a big fat zero across the board.
Single people are part of a group in which the manner of how they are ill considered in society is so deeply ingrained in attitude that their plight can hardly be recognized.
How about single rights? How about some benefits for us. Single people barely put a strain on the system at all and it’s about time we get some recognition.
“Marriage equality” and the “sanctity of marriage” are crybaby terms for needy people who just can’t make it on their own. What a bunch of losers.
I remember being single — paying more for my income taxes and more for the my car insurance (because I was also MALE). But I paid less for my health insurance. I agree that we shouldn’t try to encourage people to follow “values” or “morals” through financial and legislative means.
That is true Mike, thanks for the comments.
Actually, it’s not that tough for single people to adopt. In fact, if you want to adopt you stand an equal or better chance than a couple especially if one of the couple has a health issue. So, I don’t think there is any prejudice there anymore. The doors especially for private adoption have opened wide. I do think there is still a prejudice against single people in the workplace as they are expected to pull extra responsibilities to help those who have kids at home. Never got that one!
Oh, so it’s okay to hold it against a couple if they have a pre-existing condition? lol I’m glad to hear single people can adopt easily, that might be true. Movie stars carry them under their arms like the latest fashion bag. Of course there are no prerequisites for any one biologically capable of pumping out a few kids whether they can take care of them or not. The limit is one in some places.
As a whole no one can tell me there is not a stigma with being single and never having been married.
Yes, it is okay to hold it against them. Adoption agencies do it and private adoptions as well. It is a prejudice. I have one sister who is single and two sisters in law and I think there is a lot of prejudice against single people in the workplace and in social situations. I don’t know why; it’s stupid.
I am entertained by people who have been divorced multiple times say that there must be something wrong with me because I have never been married.
You’re totally right, Donna! As a single person at a previous job, I often got the bad shifts because I wasn’t married. Discrimination!
Yes, so true. I explored this topic on this site May 21, 2011.
“(One Of) The Last Remaining Unrecognized Prejudice (s)”
I should probably revisit it and update it.
As a single woman, I expect to be treated like an extra person, as if my life is something unusual, that married people don’t have to acknowledge or care about. I will never get used to that attitude, but I expect it. Those of us who have chosen to be single, or have ended up that way for some reason or other, never feel fully integrated.
That is correct and it is about time singles get some rights! lol
A prescient observation on the use of the phrase “values.” Yup.
Thanks Thomas, appreciate the comment. They sneak in “values” often.