Marriage Spin
‘JUST as confirmed bachelors of old are now known as gay men, the Government thinks the time is ripe to reclassify societys sensibly-shoed distaff element.
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So in keeping with the new Civil Partnership Act, designed to extend the legal status and rights enjoyed by heterosexual couples to homosexual couples, spinsters will now be known as singles.
As the Times reports, the word, with all it connotations of a lonely, frustrated, frumpy women in opaque tights, will be deemed unacceptable when the Act comes into effect on December 5. And, in keeping with the homogenised approach to the sexes, men will also be singles.
As a spokesman for the Registrar Generals Office says: Men and women will be described as single in both civil partnerships and civil registered weddings.
Which, along with the exchange of the nipple rings, will form a key and beautiful part of the new marriage ceremony…’
Posted: 28th, July 2005 | In: Uncategorized Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
