Fellow anti-feminists, what about?

Question

Bride price? Bride price is money the groom is paying to the father of the bride. It can give marriage a new revival! People have forgotten the value of marriage and virginity. Has women's liberation destroyed marriage? Would it be a good idea if the groom had to pay some money to the bride's parents/family? Isn't it a way of honoring the family and the bride?

Answer 1

My bride price went from his hand into mine right in front of a judge and witnesses. With the talk you all have got going on here he bought me from me.

Answer 2

No it wouldn't. Love is supposed to priceless. If the bride loves her husband she will marry him. He shouldn't have to pay.

Answer 3

By treating her like retail? No, thank you.

Answer 4

That would be illegal ma'am. There is no need for a man to purchase a bride. As an officer of the law, I would think that the man giving money to the bride's parents would be an insult. He doesn't own her, he is simply marrying her.

I'm afraid to the sheer absurdity of this question and the fact that you are posing as a woman (because no woman in her right mind would ever be purchased unless they walk the streets) constitutes fraud and enacts a sort of slave-trade by which someone would possibly profit. I'm gonna have to frisk you now.  

Answer 5

Could I get coupons for a discount? If so, I am for it, otherwise f*ck it.  

Answer 6

Aside from the obvious misunderstanding you have of feminism (which only is that a woman has the same and equal value as a man)

I concur with poster above, look at what's happening in India for instance with all the dowry scams.

Not only that, how would you feel if somebody paid for you like some sort of priced cow? it humiliating and derrogatory to say the least!!!!

To address the other part of your question: the value of commitment in marriage I could understand...but virginity????!!! are you kidding???

well, I guess to keep things balanced you're also advocating virginity for males too right???

Answer 7

Wouldn't that be like buying a wife? I think that's a really bad idea. Immoral people in bad situations would start selling their daughters into basically slavery.

Answer 8

That's like buying a wife.

That's demeaning for women and would take us back to a time when women were just objects that could be used for the advancement of men and traded like cattle.

But if you want that, maybe you could sell yourself on the streets or something? If that's your kind of thing.

Answer 9

I prefer NOT to be bought, thank you very much.  Plus, how fun would THAT be to have that hanging over the marriage.  "What!  You didn't cook dinner yet!  Why did I pay your father $25 thousand for you?"  Yeah, see, that wouldn't be a pretty picture.

And also, the women's liberation has no destroyed marriage (as evidence by *gasp* marriage still existing!).  All it did was give options and choices.  Not ALL people share your same values or opinions.  That's one of the great things about living in a free country.  So if I don't want to be a virgin when I get married, that is MY choice-- and has NOTHING to do with you.

Why must some people be SO concerned with other people's choices and why must they be SO adamant about enforcing their views on others?

Answer 10

yeah, but given the quality of modern women, he'd be lucky to get 10 bucks

Answer 11

what does money have to do with honor?  New revival?  I'd feel like I was for sale or my father was a pimp.  Sorry, wouldn't work for me.

Answer 12

I wouldn't worry too much about it - after the wedding, the groom will pay, and pay...

...and pay

Answer 13

LOL. So how much exactly does your honor cost? And how exactly do you compare family honor to money? Doesn't selling your virginity to someone for money called prostitution? And what exactly does it all have to do with feminism and marriage? In my own experience, men do not suffer idiocy lightly, so you should not worry too much about marriage for now.

Answer 14

That's just so chep and tacky, you  should marry for love not money. I'm not going to sell myself like some hooker.

Answer 15

that's a bad idea, marriage is a partnership between to loving people not a financial arrangement between various members of a family.

a man never owns a woman a woman is with a man if she loves him and wants to be with him. this is almost as if the woman is changing hands, as if the father used to own her and know her husband owns her because he has bought her. no money needs to change hands it is a private affair between two people.

Answer 16

I don't think that's a very good idea. Women will start to feel like they are being treated like property and they'll ***** about.

Answer 17

Others hold marrige dearly to them but some just dont need it to fulfill their lives there is nothing wrong with that. I think weddings are mostly over the top anyway i mean over 5000 dollars for one day?

Anyway why the whole anti-feminist thing...?? Do you still want to be unable to vote still get paid far less then men your a fool

Answer 18

uhm isnt that essentually like a john paying a pimp for a prostitute?

i may be non femmie...or whatever..but i have my pride!

Answer 19

Why pay for something you have to serve if you're dumb enough to get caught up in that ****? Whatever I am a FEMINIST PINKO, I love who I am. I think you sound like a giant douche.  

Answer 20

In days of old, not only did the bride come with a price but added in were the best cow, pig, and a few nice chickens.

Now Molly-girl, get back to the barn, you have to shovel out a few tons of manure!

Humans should not come with a price, either s*x.

Yeah let's go back to the days were women could not own property, vote, or have no rights at all when her mate slapped her around or even raped her, yep those were the good old days, huh?

What a moronic idea you propose!

It amazes me that some women claim not to be feminists, yet they enjoy all the rights that feminists (both male and female) fought so hard for. Feminism is about equal rights and opportunities nothing more nothing less. Feminists don't want to be treated as men, they want to be treated as humans.

Thank god you are in the minority!

Answer 21

And why, exactly, do you think women should be for sale?

"Bride price" is common in cultures where the head of the household, the father, is thought to OWN his daughter...until, of course ,he sells her to someone else.  

Answer 22

No because men pay that at the time of divorce.

Answer 23

That's hilarious.

Answers: A dowry is a way of saying "Hello, new slice of real estate." Transferal of ownership as though one is a car! Bad idea, says I and everyone else that spends time thinking.

Women's liberation made marriage an equal opportunity social contract. Women were no longer forced to stay with men they hated and feared because they now had the ability to work, support themselves... and so on and so forth. Feminism didn't destroy marriage. Video games did. (heh)

Sometimes, cultures in which a dowry is traditionally paid find that some folks don't seem to agree on the "final showdown" in the dowry process, and the result is bride burning. That's something we don't see enough in the US, eh?