Edison Fan

Well, I think it was alright. I am a gay man and I've always thought marriage is some shit straight couples do that we thankfully dodged. Although I think it's fine we get to have the same rights so we can do stupid shit too.

In the end marriage is just a document that was created to formally organise society into "families" and it's supposed to make life easier for those who decide to sign it. A lot of people don't want to get married, never planned for it, but they end up doing it for administrative or legal reasons once they have kids or invest in a house together.
 
Well, I think it was alright. I am a gay man and I've always thought marriage is some shit straight couples do that we thankfully dodged. Although I think it's fine we get to have the same rights so we can do stupid shit too.

In the end marriage is just a document that was created to formally organise society into "families" and it's supposed to make life easier for those who decide to sign it. A lot of people don't want to get married, never planned for it, but they end up doing it for administrative or legal reasons once they have kids or invest in a house together.
Queer people didn’t “dodge” marriage tho. We were (and in some places still are) barred from it. That’s a very important distinction to make, I think.

Anyway, you and Edison are talking about legal benefits of marriage, of which there are many but I think to focus on those is to minimize what marriage actually is: a nearly unconditional lifetime commitment. I mean you don’t hear a couple talking about tax breaks in their vows very often :joy: i have no position on whether it’s right or wrong, but I know for a fact it’s not easy and it’s not for everyone.

generally speaking, there’s an intimacy that comes from working through conflict (even just in friendships). Knowing that you have agreed together to work through whatever conflict/hurt/growing apart (given no unforgivable lines have been crossed) instead of just tossing each other aside is really beautiful. Like I said tho, it’s not easy and it’s not for everyone and that’s fine. Maybe he or his ex just realized after the fact that they didn’t want that level of commitment :/ that would suck and I feel for him if that was the case
 
Queer people didn’t “dodge” marriage tho. We were (and in some places still are) barred from it. That’s a very important distinction to make, I think.

Anyway, you and Edison are talking about legal benefits of marriage, of which there are many but I think to focus on those is to minimize what marriage actually is: a nearly unconditional lifetime commitment. I mean you don’t hear a couple talking about tax breaks in their vows very often :joy: i have no position on whether it’s right or wrong, but I know for a fact it’s not easy and it’s not for everyone.

generally speaking, there’s an intimacy that comes from working through conflict (even just in friendships). Knowing that you have agreed together to work through whatever conflict/hurt/growing apart (given no unforgivable lines have been crossed) instead of just tossing each other aside is really beautiful. Like I said tho, it’s not easy and it’s not for everyone and that’s fine. Maybe he or his ex just realized after the fact that they didn’t want that level of commitment :/ that would suck and I feel for him if that was the case
I don't think you need marriage to have an unconditional lifetime commitment with someone you love. That would be moving in together, living under the same roof as a couple or building a life together. Wedding vows are not what marriage is really about, that's part of the celebration, just like any other celebration of love.

And of course we were/are barred from it, which is wrong. But that doesn't mean I can't look at it like an outdated tradition inherited from religion and heteronormativity that society has always used to organise itself. But it's great, just because it's not for me it doesn't mean I'm not happy others can have the right to get married.
 
He and his boyfriend are super hot, but is anyone else bothered by the photo manipulation every time? Their body lines are always rounded out or tucked in beyond natural reason, and the edges always look really fakey when you zoom in.

A lot of these Instagram thirst traps seem to do it (especially Chinese male models/photographers), but it always seem particularly noticeable for me on Edison's photos.

it's annoying because you can tell they're both actually incredibly gorgeous, but the fakey lines distract me.
 
He and his boyfriend are super hot, but is anyone else bothered by the photo manipulation every time? Their body lines are always rounded out or tucked in beyond natural reason, and the edges always look really fakey when you zoom in.

A lot of these Instagram thirst traps seem to do it (especially Chinese male models/photographers), but it always seem particularly noticeable for me on Edison's photos.

it's annoying because you can tell they're both actually incredibly gorgeous, but the fakey lines distract me.

It's all right there "a very narcissistic account"
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Enjoy it for what it is.