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 How Do You Identify?:  Redheaded Bellydancing Femme 
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			Toughy, 
 
I've been reading your responses here with absolutely no clue how to respond.  At first, I thought you had to be joking, then I realized you were in fact very serious.  I'm really having some trouble wrapping my brain around your ideas here. 
 
It looks to me very much like your idea of how you think society should be structured involves the end of religious freedom for anyone who disagrees with you.  It also appears that you're in favor of only the rich being able to gain the benefits that currently come with marriage (since poor people generally can't afford lawyers to draw up contracts for them).  Now you're comparing marriage with slavery, which I honestly find offensive.  If this is your vision of life without the patriarchy, I want no part of it.  It doesn't sound even remotely revolutionary or utopian to me.  Or have I misunderstood you?
		 
		
		
		
		
		
		
			
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