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my conclusion is that people only get married because other people get married
we need antidotes to the fear that if we don't get married, we will die miserable and alone.
to that end:
I know I'll turn often to this thread from @ProfSunnySingh https://twitter.com/ProfSunnySingh/status/1283471223079526400
to that end:
I know I'll turn often to this thread from @ProfSunnySingh https://twitter.com/ProfSunnySingh/status/1283471223079526400
and i think about this @ranyamanivannan piece all the time https://scroll.in/article/879287/why-the-institution-of-marriage-needs-to-be-interrogated-particularly-by-women
the book that, more than any other, gently pushed me to imagine all sorts of futures for myself – Sheila Heti's "Motherhood"
lolol this thread is a good embarrassing glimpse of how I've spent the age 28, scurrying around the archives of culture like a starved squirrel, gathering and hoarding small nuggets of consolation that women can be happy *differently*
and to the point that people get married because their friends get married: I'd like to thank my close friends for being hilariously single
