longer thought about this later
Apr. 4th, 2007 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmI think I get the most emotionally caught up in my status BS in a bad way when my "very fictional life," as I call it isn't taken seriously.
More specifically, how many of us pay lip service to the idea of "chosen family" or "created family" but still don't really treat such connections as seriously as biological or legal connections? One could argue there are logistically valid reasons for that, but is life really lived on logistics? I suppose this is iterations #904539054 of my complaint about the phrase of "just friends." I realize, of course, what it's supposed to mean, but it always sounds like an oxymoron to me, how can you be calling someone a friend and neglible at the same time?
I go do stuff now before I get cranky.
Oh, speaking of cranky -- if you're following the Gather dramarama -- apparently homosexual marriage will make your health insurance rates go up.
Tomorrow's SFF column that I won't even work on until tomorrow night is going to be "Does Cyberpunk Still Matter?"
More specifically, how many of us pay lip service to the idea of "chosen family" or "created family" but still don't really treat such connections as seriously as biological or legal connections? One could argue there are logistically valid reasons for that, but is life really lived on logistics? I suppose this is iterations #904539054 of my complaint about the phrase of "just friends." I realize, of course, what it's supposed to mean, but it always sounds like an oxymoron to me, how can you be calling someone a friend and neglible at the same time?
I go do stuff now before I get cranky.
Oh, speaking of cranky -- if you're following the Gather dramarama -- apparently homosexual marriage will make your health insurance rates go up.
Tomorrow's SFF column that I won't even work on until tomorrow night is going to be "Does Cyberpunk Still Matter?"
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-04-04 04:11 pm (UTC)the health insurance thing has ALWAYS bugged me, when people cash in because they happened to sign a document ages ago. since i am self employed and had NO health insurance, i had to literally almost die before i got hauled into the hospital with cancer.
and as far as status- there is NO status LOWER than being a 'girlfriend' but not 'married' in a straight relationship. i always remember when i was with my Ex and we both got sick..some awful lung thing..he of course went to his dr, got drugs, and was fine in 3 days. i, the nobody he was living with and uninsured, was sick for 12 weeks.
i keep saying, let's end ALL the controversy- let's just do away with MARRIAGE, since it means nothing anyhow, and let each human choose their OWN way of caring for..gasp..themselves.