fucking-chattel

Emily Gould · 09/20/07 11:35AM

Says an assistant professor of cultural anthropology, of his students who arrange to have their marriage proposals surreptitiously photographed: "They both want to be famous and they want to be authentic, and yet there's something in their striving to archive their lives that's inauthentic ... It's almost like if it's not on Facebook, it didn't happen." Uh huh! And when the Times contains sentences like, "Whether inspired by tenderhearted sentiment, the desire to record history in the making or something more narcissistic, some marriage-minded men are remaking one of humanity's most private moments," it's almost like the last 30 years of the women's movement didn't happen! [NYT]