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Man offers $65m to the man that can woo his gay daughter

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  • #2
    Annasopra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41,158 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    Some of what's in the AH thread should really remain unsaid.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



  • #3
    floggg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭floggg


    I'd love to do a deal with her to marry her and give all the money to fund marriage equality campaigns across the world.

    I'm sure the dad would be delighted with that!


  • #4
    Aurongroove
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Aurongroove


    Yeah, I'd do it.

    32.5 mill for you, 32.5 mill for me, and we can have an open marriage. Everybody wins.

    we even have enough cash to use Laboratory insemination, man, those will be some spoiled kids.


  • #5
    lemon_sherbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭lemon_sherbert


    That's really sad, but at least she's happy with her partner. I read an article in the Economist recently actually about the changing attitudes to homosexuality in China - http://www.economist.com/node/21562984, maybe only a start, but pretty encouraging. It must be terribly difficult within a culture that has a focus on carrying on family lines. Apparently there are websites that matchmake gay men and women purely for the purpose of having children to satisfy their families, while understanding they can find loving relationships outside of their marriage.


  • #6
    wonderfulname
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    I love how the author illustrates this to be a societal problem;
    Same-sex marriages are not recognised in Hong Kong, a socially conservative Chinese city where homosexuality was decriminalised in 1991.

    Anyone see any parallels?


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  • #7
    lemon_sherbert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭lemon_sherbert


    wonderfulname wrote: »
    Anyone see any parallels?

    We were two years later, and brought kicking and screaming by the European Court of Human Rights. Delightful.


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