I guess they really did assume you moved directly from your parents' house, maybe to a dorm, then maybe to a roommate situation with other young women, but never lived alone.
I loved living alone before shacking up with my dude 9 years ago. He did too. It was hard learning to share space. If we could live in two halves of a duplex, I'd be in heaven.
@cycles: Eh, I'm almost 29 and this will be the first time I've lived completely on my own (no roommate, no boy, no nuthin). I'll be honest, I'm not a fan. But that's why I have a baseball bat and the internet. :)
The getting up early to prepare his breakfast probably disqualifies me. Does "sleepily murmuring 'love ya' if at all able to speak when he kisses me good bye an hour before i wake up" count? As to 28. and 29. I say: FOOD POISONING. If we've seen each other with it coming out both ends, I'd say we're bonded 4lyfe. (Also? Sadie? This whole thing kinda makes me want to marry YOU now.)
Gauging from the illustration alone, marriage entails: sun breaking through clouds onto the Parthenon, plus some assorted money, books, and shopping lists.
This quiz pretty much sets a wife up to be like all the ones in the commercials Sarah Haskins makes fun of.
She gets the burdens of traditional wife-roles (she should make his breakfast and darn his socks, cause without a lady around, he'd set the house on fire, drown the children and do it all while half naked and dirty!) AND she gets the burdens of equality (she should be financially responsible, and contribute to her household).
So, she doesn't get the upside of either old fashioned wifely comfort OR progressive equality, like him taking a turn with the vacuum? That's kind of balls.
Has he ever seen you when you're aware that you don't look your best - your face smeared with facial cream, hair in curlers or bundled up in a bandanna, or showing the effects of a bad cold, or made dirty from housecleaning?
Now, has he ever seen you when you're unaware that you don't look your best? i.e. Kelly Clarkson pre-photoshop.
Young people should be required to take this quiz, up to and including #19.
The rest of it is very interesting in that the quiz acknowledges that the woman probably has her own job or education, but requires her to do 100% of the domestic duties. It's basically like, "Are you ready to work the Second Shift?"
@BeSarcastic: OMG you just inadvertantly cleared up a years long question mark for me - when I was in college there was a lesbian bar in northhampton called the Grotto and everyone thought it was hilarious - I never got it and was too embaressed to ask! Thanks :)
I was sorely disappointed by this quiz. HERE is what a Comic Book Marriage Quiz should look like:
1.) Is your man living a double life? If so, does his mild-mannered side make enough money to support your lifestyle?
2.) Is your man possessive--as in, he'd have a problem with you running around the city in a spandex unitard strangling villains with your thighs?
3.) Are YOU possessive--as in, you'd have a problem with him running around the city in an atomically correct rubber suit?
4.) Is your man the villain? If he is, are you prepared, financially and emotionally, to live without him during those jail or asylum stays?
5.) Does your man have anger issues? If he turns green and tears down buildings when you forget the cream in his coffee, it could indicate a problem in the relationship. And you don't want to spend every night having to sew up all his split pants!
6.) Do you or your man have certain physical....attributes that could create issues in the bedroom? You can't be fingered by your fella when he has steel claws, and you can't go down on him if you breathe fire.
7.) Does your man have a sidekick? If so, is that sidekick young, male with slender legs? Oh....I see... Oh dear....well.....there's really no need to continue the quiz. If it's any consolation, I hear The Calendar Man is single.
@LuvEwan: This is brilliant! You know, I think I'll print this out and pin it up somewhere so that someday, if I'm ever considering a more formal commitment, I'll be able to see if it fits into my preferred lifestyle of superheroine-ing.
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I guess they really did assume you moved directly from your parents' house, maybe to a dorm, then maybe to a roommate situation with other young women, but never lived alone.
I loved living alone before shacking up with my dude 9 years ago. He did too. It was hard learning to share space. If we could live in two halves of a duplex, I'd be in heaven.
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She gets the burdens of traditional wife-roles (she should make his breakfast and darn his socks, cause without a lady around, he'd set the house on fire, drown the children and do it all while half naked and dirty!) AND she gets the burdens of equality (she should be financially responsible, and contribute to her household).
So, she doesn't get the upside of either old fashioned wifely comfort OR progressive equality, like him taking a turn with the vacuum? That's kind of balls.
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Grrrr!
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Now, has he ever seen you when you're unaware that you don't look your best? i.e. Kelly Clarkson pre-photoshop.
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The rest of it is very interesting in that the quiz acknowledges that the woman probably has her own job or education, but requires her to do 100% of the domestic duties. It's basically like, "Are you ready to work the Second Shift?"
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But, I thought we were making progress in moving past this "purple is the color of the antichrist" phase.
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This is really the only question they needed to ask.
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God bless quaint mid-century euphemisms.
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1.) Is your man living a double life? If so, does his mild-mannered side make enough money to support your lifestyle?
2.) Is your man possessive--as in, he'd have a problem with you running around the city in a spandex unitard strangling villains with your thighs?
3.) Are YOU possessive--as in, you'd have a problem with him running around the city in an atomically correct rubber suit?
4.) Is your man the villain? If he is, are you prepared, financially and emotionally, to live without him during those jail or asylum stays?
5.) Does your man have anger issues? If he turns green and tears down buildings when you forget the cream in his coffee, it could indicate a problem in the relationship. And you don't want to spend every night having to sew up all his split pants!
6.) Do you or your man have certain physical....attributes that could create issues in the bedroom? You can't be fingered by your fella when he has steel claws, and you can't go down on him if you breathe fire.
7.) Does your man have a sidekick? If so, is that sidekick young, male with slender legs? Oh....I see... Oh dear....well.....there's really no need to continue the quiz. If it's any consolation, I hear The Calendar Man is single.
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I love you for this. Straight up love you.