but even the raddest of radfems would have to concede that women being able to legally marry other women doesn’t bolster the Patriarchy, or so I would have assumed before today.
Welllll, there is an argument to be made about how marriage’s validity as an institution is fortified by every new marriage, no matter between whom, and the institution of marriage is a tool of the patriarchy in many respects. Hence many gay rights activists arguing that the focus on gay marriage as the be-all end-all of gay rights not only distracts from other important issues, but also at this point often just feels like a successful assimilation into the institutions one should be trying to dismantle.
“if you’re so gay, why aren’t you married??”
Yeeesssssss, assimilate all the gays into normal society without them even realizing it…
*various hissing sounds*