For 72 Days
Kim Kardashian is divorcing some dude she married after a whopping 72 days of marriage. Their engagement was 85 days (according to the internet which always gets everything right.) Kardashian’s divorce in and of itself is not interesting (hey, she made a cool ten million off a celebrity sycophantic culture that cares about such crap.) What is interesting (and heartbreaking) is that wingnuts probably think that teh gayz have so thoroughly ruined traditional marriage, what with teh gayz’s insistence on being gay and getting gay-married, that Kim Kardashian never really stood a chance.
Don’t be mad at Kim and Kris. They probably lived next door to a gay couple. How could the Kardashian-Humphries marriage last longer than 72 days with a bunch of gays living next door actively ruining their lives?
Think about it.
Check out the Buzzfeed link. It might make your eyes rain at the injustice of it all.
[via Buzzfeed]
[cross-posted at ABLC]
Bubblegum Tate
Well, I’ve seen wingnuts pay a bit of lip service to the notion that the Kim Kardashians of the world are destroying marriage. It usually comes in the form of “Kim Kardashian and her ilk are debasing marriage, true, but that isn’t an excuse to further debase marriage by letting gays do it.” And then they go off on their rant about how gay marriage would be a harbinger of the end of civilization as we know it.
Loneoak
It’s KIM AND KRIS not ADAM AND STEVE.
Villago Delenda Est
You know, when my sister got married some 30 years ago to the guy she was living with to make it “acceptable” for my less than delighted parents, it didn’t make that much difference, because her husband was, how shall I say this, less than the storybook ideal of the kind of guy you want your daughter to marry, especially compared to your just shipped off to Germany with an Army commission eldest son.
She wound up getting divorced a year later or so, because it just was not working out. Just living together might have been the best possible way for the relationship to continue, so all the legal complications that a marriage entails did not make things that much worse. But she thought it would make the relationship “legitimate” in the eyes of my parents. My dad never did accept the guy, and apparently he sincerely tried to win my dad over, but it was not to be.
It is funny how the wingtards cannot get into the same lather over Kim Kardashian’s actions and that of gay couples who have been living in an everything but in name married state for decades.
They’re wingtards. That pretty much explains it.
genghisjon
That sound you hear is the hammer hitting the nail on it’s head.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
Well, this may not be the most pithy comment of all time, but it astonishes me that we even know or care who Kim Kardashian is — the spoiled, plasticized recipient of Daddy’s wealth and modest fame. Is she college-educated? Does she have any identifiable talents (besides self-promotion)? Of course, blaming her is probably silly; it is our fame-hungry culture that eagerly devours every bit of information about the Kate Gosselin’s, Paris Hilton’s, Spencer Pratt’s of the world. We need look no farther than the mirror to see why these people are famous and lavishly paid for their non-talents.
Brachiator
There is a Kardashian Calculator available online
Zooey Deschanel and musician Ben Gibbard, who have announced their separation, have been married about 11.04 Kardashians.
Meanwhile, Hugh Grant, instead of adopting an Asian baby, got himself an Asian baby mamma.
And yet somehow it is only gay marriage that threatens the foundations of society.
Paul in KY
IMO, unless it was a grift from the start, the reason Kimmy dumped Kris can be summed up in a scene where she whines about having to live in Minn & what that would do to her career. At that point, Kris says something like ‘Once you’ve had the kids & they are all in school, no one will remember you anyway’.
You could see her eyes flash, flash in a way you do not ever want to see your girl’s eyes flash. It was over then, IMO.
Gin & Tonic
@Brachiator: Thanks for that link. I’m delighted to say I’ve been happily married for over 178 Kardashian units, and hope for many more. It’s a shame there are people who are prohibited from having the same legal protections for their relationship. I feel not the slightest “threat” from what other people may be allowed to do – the strength or weakness of my marriage is determined by exactly two people.
genghisjon
@Loneoak: http://youtu.be/zKAW96N-Vms You mean this ADAM AND EVE?
DMcK
To be fair, KK was a vocal opponent of Proposition 8.
Butch
Well, that means my partner and I have been together for 91.6 Kardashians, including some rough financial times and a few scary health issues….and we’re doing fine.
ed drone
I couldn’t get over the links at the bottom of that Buzzfeed page. 20 couples who can’t marry, but Kim Whatshername can, and all the links were to Kim’s songs or cats or other Bull-Kim.
Gaaa! Popular culture has a hell of a lot to answer for.
Ed
gbear
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):
Chalk one up for not having a TV in the house, but I have absolutely no idea who Kim Kardashian is and I don’t care.
I do, however, know LOTS of same sex couples who have been together forever and should be allowed to all the rights and legal advantages that marriage affords.
elmo
My partner and I have been together for just a little over 100 Kardashians.
(but I don’t know who she is, either, other than I’ve heard the name before.)
TooManyJens
@Brachiator:
Their reply would be that those things and gay marriage are all symptoms of the same underlying problem, which is that once marriage is no longer all about children, it is about nothing but shallow and selfish adult fulfillment. And gay marriage puts the nail in the coffin of marriage being all about children. So, the loving couples at the Buzzfeed link not only aren’t victims of an unjust double standard, they are in fact partly responsible for crappy heterosexual marriages. It’s an impressive feat of pretzel logic, really.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
Hello, gbear #13… Actually, we have a television set and use it for rented movies & Netflix only. I know of K.K. because of surfing the internet and standing in line at grocery stores where the glossy rag-mags reside.
I agree with you about same-sex couples deserving the same rights and advantages as everyone else; I hope my post did not somehow suggest otherwise.
Brachiator
@TooManyJens:
Uh, but there is nothing that prevents gay people from being fruitful and multiplying should they so desire.
And by this standard, it wouldn’t be “until death do you part,” but “until menopause or male impotence do you part.”
More seriously, I had a great aunt and uncle whose marriage was, for me, a model for how a loving couple should treat one another. They never had kids.
gbear
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.): Oh no, I didn’t get a negative impression at all. I’ve probably seen K.K. in the checkout lines too but I just go into a stupor when I see those magazines (I go into a stupor about a lot of things now that I’m old).
Morbo
@DMcK: But acknowledging that makes it harder to feel smugly superior to her.
TooManyJens
@Brachiator: Ah, but infertile heterosexual couples still have sex in the same way that people who can have kids have, so that’s still honoring the real true purpose of marriage. And same-sex couples who raise kids have theirs the wrong way, so that doesn’t count.
I didn’t say it was good logic.
Anonymous At Work
Not to distract or anything but the marriage lasted over 72 times longer than Brittney Spears’ marriage. This point was raised before and didn’t amount to much. Older folks aren’t gonna change; younger folks don’t care.
gbear
@Morbo: I think the point here is that same sex couples would like to feel smugly equal to her.
schlemizel
no, this is not the gays fault – this is the liberal, permissive culture fostered by Hollywood liberals.
Letting the gays marry is just another step down on that ladder.
This is so easy I sometimes wish I was one of those brain dead teabaggers. Thinking and making correct conclusions is hard work.
Mnemosyne
We’ll all be much better off once we, as a society, recognize that the desire to have heterosexual sex and the desire to raise children are not, in fact, the same desire. They may go together in most cases, but they are not the same thing.
People — including gay and lesbian ones — have been adopting and raising children since the beginning of the human race, so it should be obvious to anyone with half a brain that having your own biological children is not actually necessary for, well, anything.
Brachiator
OT but on target, here’s a charming marriage proposal. On a subway train. With singing!
Love and carriage! Groom-to-be becomes internet hit as he gets down on one knee on the 19.57 to Watford
Certified Mutant Enemy
Here’s what I think of the Kardashians…
Certified Mutant Enemy
Weren’t the Kardashians bad guys from Star Trek?
smelter rat
133.9 Kardashians for me and the missus.
Brachiator
@Certified Mutant Enemy:
Yeah. On one episode of Deep Space Nine, the Kardashian Khloe Dukat married Lamar Odo.
SiubhanDuinne
@West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.):
Well, I vaguely know who Kim Kardashian, Kate Gosselin, and Paris Hilton are, but I have never heard of Spencer Pratt and hope to keep it that way for a good long time. Like forever.
West of the Rockies (formerly Frank W.)
Spencer Pratt is aptly named: he is a pratt — an idiot, uncool person. I believe he was in a reality show with some woman who is known primarily for her multiple cosmetic surgeries.
deadrody
Definitely
MOST.IMPORTANT.ISSUE.EVAH!!!!