Big question for a little Wednesday morning, I know, but it can't be desktops and cupcakes every day. I was reading this post by a man musing the various attitudes of his male and female friends to the subject - particularly on the 'how long should you wait to propose' subject. And I found this line: "There seems to be more pressure out there for women to settle down than men as well. When a guy gets married, his friends act like his life is ending. But a woman who is the last to get married starts to feel very pressured to get married."
This morning I also caught a broody John Barrowman saying: "I don't call it a marriage for my own reasons - and I would suggest to gay men and women that they don't call it a marriage, because it connotes religious organisations that don't like them, and why do we want to take that on board?"
So in my Carrie-Bradshaw-esque way, I'm wondering: are women and gay couples really just wanting to get married because of peer pressure? And is it a peer pressure that men aren't feeling so much? Aren't there women who see getting married as "the end" too, in a negative way? What's it all about, eh? It's a funny old life.
