My husband and my marriage are not prizes, lottery tickets or possessions. I did not win or purchase him in the marketplace of courtship. She did not lose in the marketplace of life. I didn’t bargain with marriage for my career; she didn’t trade in anything. We use these metaphors all the time as if they don’t have power, yet we forget that we are talking about are humans. “Dating and mating” is only a marketplace if we consent to being commodities.
To think outside the marketplace is tricky in our society….
Read it all.
(Christian Century) Amy Frykholm–Commodity dating?
My husband and my marriage are not prizes, lottery tickets or possessions. I did not win or purchase him in the marketplace of courtship. She did not lose in the marketplace of life. I didn’t bargain with marriage for my career; she didn’t trade in anything. We use these metaphors all the time as if they don’t have power, yet we forget that we are talking about are humans. “Dating and mating” is only a marketplace if we consent to being commodities.
To think outside the marketplace is tricky in our society….
Read it all.