Traditional Marriage Gets Stranger
From Fox, “a matrimonial reality series,” I Married a Stranger:
The premise of the show is that a woman frustrated by the dating scene agrees to wed a man she’s never met. While she prepares for her blind wedding, friends and family select a spouse from a pool of six eligible suitors offered by the show’s producers. The men are eliminated one by one until only two candidates remain. Both finalists walk down the aisle, but only one makes it to the altar to reveal himself to his new wife.
“She never meets him until the actual moment when they say ‘I do,’” a source close to the project said. “It’s like the big scene that comes after an entire season of ‘The Bachelor,’ only this is in every episode.”
Via Dan Savage, “Will all the brave defenders of traditional one-man/one-woman marriage out there…have anything to say about this?”
LATER: I’ve fixed my typo. Thanks Sil!
10 Responses to “Traditional Marriage Gets Stranger”
That's a lot to go through for both of them for guaranteed sex on the first date… I mean wedding night.
Yes, I think you misspelled “Stranger” in the title. Unless “Stanger” is someone defending traditional marriage?
How very retro. Arranged marriages are a lot more traditional than what we Americans normally do. People claiming to be fans of traditional marriage will surely be delighted, no?
This is even more funny than the YouTube video I was sent yesterday:
Betty Bowers Explains Traditional Marriage to Everyone Else
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw
Hilarious video Rambie. Damn. My house is woefully “understaffed” I see.
Well we see what the argument here is; if there are examples of “bad” hetero marriage then the definition must be dismantled. That isn't a logical progression unfortunately
*next*
*yawn*…
I saw but did not link to the Bowers video. It's all good fun, I know, but I don't see it moving the dialog forward in any way. As for the argument that “if there are examples of 'bad' hetero marriage then the definition must be dismantled,” that's not why I posted. Rather, to those who say that extending marriage rights to committed gay couples will dilute or do harm to marriage, the TV show illustrates that heterosexuals are doing a fine job of that on their own.
Sil's understanding of Joe's post is about as logical as the astounding leap she makes when she analogizes human sexual behavior to that of cattle. Thank you Joe, for your illustrating comment.
If the friends and family can't decide on which man, is polygomy an option?
That would be polyandry: one wife, multiple husbands.