In a more rational light, [Jennifer] Aniston’s marriage news is great news for her. If she’s happy, and presumably she is, that’s wonderful. But the reaction to this news, and her life before it, is bad news for us as a group.
What the treatment of the film star reveals is our determination to stick to old-school ideas about sex and gender. The worth of a woman has long been judged by her ability to keep a man. Aniston was supposedly diminished by her failure to keep Pitt and further damaged by her inability to replace him with a shiny new man.
Because she’s female, the idea that she might be content being single, dating and living on her own wasn’t taken seriously.
[blockquote] “What the treatment of the film star reveals is our determination to stick to old-school ideas about sex and gender.” [/blockquote]
Yes, its a terrible thing when, despite all the politically-correct education that liberals can throw at our youth, they keep reverting to those pesky old-fashioned values!
And in reference to the headline, I am quite happy to support Beyonce Knowles “constant refrain of putting a ring on it”. I have no idea whether the singer has any Christian faith, but she was prepared to state very publicly the basic desire of most women for the security of a married relationship, and I will agree that.