“I love weddings, but these proposals can make me uncomfortable because they imply that the woman has no agency in the decision. The image is of a woman who is sitting there passively, and when the man finally asks, she cries in gratitude,” Coontz says. And by publicizing that image, “the implication is that, for women, this is the equivalent of getting your Nobel Prize—it’s just that you’re getting your M-R-S prize awarded to you in front of the world.”
Posted on: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 06:25:06 +0000
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