72 days ago Kim Kardashian
married NBA star Kris Humphries. The
world went completely cra cra. I’m still baffled why anyone actually gave a
shit about this wedding and all the hype surrounding it. Perhaps I’m cynical because, being a lesbian;
I’m denied the option of legally wedding my partner of over 16 years. Not that I really believe a legal certificate
makes a relationship real (clearly Kardashian made that point for me), but
having that option available to you seems like a fair enough request. It especially seems like a fair request when ridiculous
shams like this happen. Not that I can
slight Kardashian, I mean she got rich off this deal…mostly because people go
completely crackerjack insane over fairy tale weddings. If I were her, I’d be laughing at all the morons
who bought into this shit and skipping to the bank to cash all the checks
(checks, BTW, that add up to $27,000,000).
I think a writer for Chicago Now put it best: “I figured out that between the $10MM cost of
her wedding (she didn’t pay a dime) and the reported 17MM she received for
doing it, it was $651 per minute marriage.
Or $10.85 per second. Minimum
wage is $7.25 per hour. In a 40 hour
work week that comes to $290; per year it’s $15,080. So basically, the amount that was spent on
Kimbo getting married would pay a minimum wage annual salary to 1,800 people.” Click here for full story.
I’ve never watched her show, I
didn’t care that she got married and I don’t so much care that she is getting
divorce, but the principal of it all annoys me.
I’d like to make a joke about it and say this is “true” history, but it
is just true. Setting aside a group of
people and denying the right to marriage is discrimination. I don’t really get mad about it, because you
get used to that kind of stuff. But I do
get mad, when something like the Kardashian wedding and now divorce after 72 days
happens. Gays should be able to make a
mockery out of the sanctity of marriage just like the straights. It just isn’t fair.
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