9 Responses to “I Blame Gay Marriage”

1. #1 |  David |  November 4th, 2008 at 2:44 am

   …or maybe Japan is just weird.

   Understatement of the fucking year.

2. #2 |  parse |  November 4th, 2008 at 8:40 am

   No, gay marriage definitely. Two gay men marrying makes about as much sense as marrying Green Lantern.

3. #3 |  freedomfan |  November 4th, 2008 at 9:03 am

   Heh, heh. Yeah, those wacky Japanese and their -

   Waitaminute! Does this mean my marriage to Wonder Woman is illegal?! D’oh!

   …

   BTW, on a semi-serious note, it’s fun to cast this story as an eccentricity of another culture, but it’s not like this is commonplace there. And, does anyone seriously believe that a similar petition in the U.S. would fare any worse? I think he’d get plenty of signatures here, or in plenty of other places.

4. #4 |  Marty |  November 4th, 2008 at 10:43 am

   I was in a serious relationship with Ms. June for a while…

5. #5 |  aw2pp |  November 4th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

   A little from column A, a little from column B…

6. #6 |  Kwix |  November 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm

   This is clearly separate from gay marriage in that gay marriage is between two consenting people. Unless you are the artist of the two dimensional being you wish to marry it isn’t consenting and if you are the artist you have more problems than you know.

   Wow, I can’t believe I just typed that.

7. #7 |  A.G. Pym |  November 4th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

   William Gibson touched on something similar to this in his novel “Idoru” – a mega-popstar plans on marrying a synthetic, virtual personality who is also a pop idol (“Idoru” in Japanese parlance). Much chaos and hidden agendas collide.

8. #8 |  parse |  November 4th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

   A.G. Pym, I love your narrative.

9. #9 |  Kyle Jordan |  November 5th, 2008 at 1:25 am

   Cool! Now that Mary Jane and Peter are divorced I can move in and get some of that action!

   Japan, leading the way for perverts and weirdos for over a quarter century.

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