In my last post LECHEROUS, I casually posed a question
whether same-sex people ogling at each other could be construed as being ‘lecherous’?
Then my thoughts wandered on gay marriages and their legalization.
Gay
Marriage has just become legal in NZ (Congratulations gay
people -- you are about to discover the miseries of marriage).
It makes New Zealand the 13th nation to recognize gay marriage. And even though it's a
tiny country of 4.4 million population (I have excluded all the sheep,
otherwise it would be double this!), it happens to be very
progressive in the ways that count. NZ was also the first country in the
world to grant women the vote in 1893. Imagine. It took Australia
another 18 years to do the same, the USA till 1920, UK 1928, Italy 1946, and
Bahrain 2001.
Though no
huge fan of wedlock (of any sort, straight or gay! Hmm... hindsight conclusion)
the issue of gay marriage is, to me, a baffling thing. The first and foremost
thing is that the word ‘Gay Marriage’ sounds like an oxymoron… as in ‘Happily Married’ being an oxymoron.
In my mind there are other questions. Who
will be driving the car and who will be nagging? Who gets the bachelor party?
Who wakes up in the middle of the night to check on the noise? Who
forgets the anniversary? Who refuses to stop and ask for directions? And who will
take time forever to get ready?
In one of the episodes of Two And A Half Men,
when Alan is in doubt whether he is queer, Berta says “It’s fine… but the world
would be a much happier place once you figure out whether you're the pin or the
cushion.” In today’s high-tech jargon this could be reworded as ‘the USB port
or the pen drive’.
When it
comes to love we are so mechanical: Girl meets Guy. Guy dates Girl. Girl
becomes girlfriend. Time passes. Proposal. Ring. Marriage.
And then divorce. Now change Girl to guy in that. It sounds very odd. Queer, I
should say.
As Mark Gugnar says, "in a way, MARRIAGE IS A COSMIC JOKE because we men and
women are so different from each other." To this I should add the appropriate but staid saying "Men are from Mars and women are from
Venus." So could it be that Gay marriage is the right answer to this cosmic
joke? In any case I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as
miserable as the rest of us.
Let me say
that the word ‘Gay’ only means ‘Happy’ to me. I don't mind straight people acting
gay in public... but I mind gay people in public. My ‘sexual orientation’ is... what should I say... mostly horizontal! When gays say that ‘they came out of the closet’, I remember that the only time I was in a closet was when rummaging for a
favourite tie of mine!
Remember the
joke when women used to say the best ones were either gay or married? Now they
can be both.
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