Are there any ways in which the pop culture /media has responded to new interpretations of marriage?
I think the media is really stuck in the past as far as weddings and marriage goes. There’s nothing I’ve seen that resonates with how I feel as a married person or how I want my marriage to be. I identify way more with single characters on TV, in movies, etc. (To the extent that I identify at all, ’cause admittedly most of that stuff is so fake it’s impossible to identify with it). The wedding industry creates its own media, too, of course, and since it’s all geared toward selling wedding products it’s really powerful propaganda. A good analysis of this is in Jacklyn Geller’s “Here Comes the Bride” (Four Walls Eight Windows) which is an excellent read (though I disagree with a lot of what she says, because she does not believe it’s possible to transform marriage at all, which clearly I don’t think or I would not have gotten married). Do you think you can be a feminist andwear a poufy white dress, be given away by your father, throw the bouquet at your single friends, and change your la
