Ohhh Radio Shows

Hey folks! Feel like it's been forever. Moving into finals week for my Masters program now. I can't believe I'll be all done this time next week! Hopefully a passing CPA score will come in for Christmas and I'll be all set =)

There's a bunch of back-logged things I wanna blog about. I'll get to them eventually, but today I was driving into the community college to volunteer as a tutor and heard the most outrageous radio show. OK, so it probably wasn't outrageous to normal people, but my socially sensitive mind was really disturbed about the on-air conversation.

So a woman calls in upset that her fiance told her that he won't marry her unless she takes his last name. Then the phone lines open up and the stupidity ensues. Most callers tell her she should hyphenate, or take his last name to appease him, or that it depends on whether he has a bad last name. But NO, it doesn't depend on what his last name is. His last name could be Cullen (the coolest last name in the world). But that is not the point.

The issue here is that this woman is being coerced into something that she doesn't want to do. Now I'm not married myself, but I have feeling that coersion would probably be a bad starting point. How are you expected to stand at an altar (or other symbolic place) and vow that you love someone unconditionally when there are express conditions put on your marriage?

A recent study came out that found that many Americans were considering marriage obsolete. I think that's because many people are losing sight of the fundamental purpose of marriage. No, not the fundamentalist purpose, the fundamental purpose. We are all caught up in what the man should do and what the women should do when the only thing that the two people should do is love each other. And no, love doesn't conquer all, but it's an awful good place to start.

Oh yea...IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!