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• We still have about 20 cards left to give away, so it's not too late to email your answer!
  (posted to Hump Day Giveaway)
• I'm getting married in May, and we're doing things a bit non-traditional. A sampling: 1. My dress is pink. And it's a bridesmaid dress. I'm not spending a shit-ton of money for a dress I'll wear once. Plus, white? Who
  (posted to Does the personal <em>always</em> have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?))

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• Congrats! I am in the midst of planning a feminist wedding celebration in Brooklyn, and it is turning into a really great fun thing to plan. We actually got married already at City Hall, which was a lovely way (posted to Does the personal <em>always</em> have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?))
• Why do the two have to be mutually exclusive? I believe "marriage" should be little more than a long-term connective legal contract with all of the privileges heterosexual couples have now given to any two people who chooses to enter (posted to Does the personal <em>always</em> have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?))
• Well, what are the things about "traditional" marriage that all feminists, across the board, can agree are bad? That would be all the stuff having to do with patriarchal gender roles, right? From the blatant stuff like wives swearing to (posted to Does the personal <em>always</em> have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?))
• Congratulations Jessica! I guess I am scared of marriage. I am afraid that the pressures and social expectations of the "Wife Role" would consume me. That the gender role pressure would be so strong that I wouldn't be able to (posted to Does the personal <em>always</em> have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?))
• Congratulations Jessica! I guess I am scared of marriage. I am afraid that the pressures and social expectations of the "Wife Role" would consume me. That the gender role pressure would be so strong that I wouldn't be able to (posted to Does the personal <em>always</em> have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?))

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