February 29th - that boring hackneyed old crap again

81 replies

LineRunner · 29/02/2012 09:05

I've just switched the Breakfast News over, as it's now on its second report of the day on manicures, only to find ITV's equivalent is having a rather large and silly segment on 'ladies popping the question'. With a psychologist. And, for some inexplicable reason, Michael Portillo. (Will he now go on anything?)

Does anyone really care who proposes to whom and when? Is it just me who finds this stuff tediously whimsical and infantilising?

To even pretend that women 'get the upper' hand in crucial social and economic relationships once every four years is shallow and specious, I reckon.

OP posts:

Original poster

LineRunner · 29/02/2012 09:30

I know on one level it's really trivial; but to me it does seem to cast into sharp the relief the media's promulgation of the idea that men are the ones who normally make important decisions about marriage (which has been called the 'glue the binds society together' by our own Prime Minister), whereas women get granted a special dispensation once every four years to have bit of a pantomime version.

OP posts:

Hullygully · 29/02/2012 09:18

lucky lucky ladies.

"Will you take me as your possession and let me bear your name?"

Original poster

LineRunner · 29/02/2012 09:17

... where I hear that today, ladies are 'allowed' to propose.

OP posts:

Original poster

LineRunner · 29/02/2012 09:12

I had wondered if the psychologist was there to offer support and therapy to any lady who did indeed develop ideas above her station.

But then I turned the radio on instead.

OP posts:

SardineQueen · 29/02/2012 09:10

Yes it is ridiculous.

Loads of women on these boards though saying they are waiting for their partner to propose and they wouldn't do it in a million years as that would be wrong.