Posts by Megan Wegan
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However, when a woman is a Dame - as appointed by the GG on behalf of HM the Queen - she is Dame whoever, and her husband? Well, you can see my point. He retains his identity.
It might be wrong, and I know I've discussed this before over on Twitter, but all I want in life is to become a Dame.
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Do you get the Mr and Mrs His Full Name ones? We did, last Christmas. I went rather beyond fuming.
My mum, not an activist in any way, used to post back any letter addressed to Mrs My Dad's Name.
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More seriously, we looked at double-barrelling, but neither of the available combos sounded right.
I had friends that got married last year, and their names combined perfectly to create Parsley.
I'm still a little bit miffed they didn't become Mr and Mrs Parsley.
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My dad and I watch the Sound of Music on Christmas Eve every year. When TVNZ stopped playing it, I bought it on DVD so we could keep doing it.
My dad and I are...fraught, but last week, on some ad, I heard the tune to My Favourite Things, and had to call him. Christmas traditions are nice.
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Yes that makes me a complete sap I know
I'm waving at Bart: come over here to Saps' Corner. We have tissues. The kind with aloe vera.
Oh, I am so there with you.
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"My lady is definitely no lady
which is fine with me,cause I aint no gentleman."
That has been my experience, yes. ;)
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But making civil unions truly on a par with marriage and opening up marriage to same-sex couples are different issues.
Why can't we do both?
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You're my ladyfriend, Megan. (Grabbing my flak-jacket, sprinting for the nearest window.) :)
You, my darling, might be the only man who can get away with that.
And without her I would be.
Aaaw. AAAW.
And I'm aware that perversely of course the fact that now we do have civil unions means it's harder to galvanise people on the other just fight of making marriage available to all. But the existing discrimination in itself still doesn't place civil unions and marriage on an objective continuum of value.
Can I just ask, but is there any appreciable difference other than the name? I should know this, but it's been 5 years, and I have forgotten things.
[eta: ok, Emma's answered my question.]
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ladyfriend
Eeew, if someone called me that? Ack. As has been proven in these parts, I am nobody's lady.
As Danielle says , we wimmins, we is fickle.
But, God, it still rankles being told "STFU and get a civil union, because it's marriage in all but name, and it's the best you're ever going to get anyway". Gee, thanks...
Yeah, the best you are ever gonna get is never really a reason to do it, is it? Also, who are these people telling you to get a civil union? Have they never heard of minding their own fecking business?
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'Civilly unified' is good. 'Civil universary' is good. But an equally bearable label for 'person I am in a civil union with' continues to elude me.
I think it is actually the term 'civil union' that's the problem. I've never been in one, but a long-term, committed relationship, with a piece of paper verifying it it so? civil isn't really the best word for that, is it?