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Borat came out twenty years ago this year–closer to the breakup of the Soviet Union than to today–but it honestly feels like it’s been even longer, somehow.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3237/
Just say partner. It’s a better description of what a marriage should be AND it’s gender neutral
What’s wrong with spouse? Have people forgotten that thesaurus exist? Spouse is already gender neutral, literally means married partner, and doesn’t sound like a corporate speak buzzword to make the drones feel like family.
Spouse sounds dumb.
What corporation calls their employees partners?
Always sounded weird and corporate to me. Easiest to just ask what your SO would prefer to be called and not worry about what people might think when you say it
Partner sounds corporate…?
If anything, it sounds more scientific
It seems to be, at least partially, a generational thing.
I grew up in rural, conservative-town USA and am old enough to remember when “partner” was code for same-sex spouse that I’m not legally allowed to marry.
Whereas if you were in a state where you were allowed to marry your same-sex spouse, then they’d be your husband/wife.
Hearing it now, regardless of orientation, just sounds deliberately vague to some of us oldheads.
AND you get to say ‘howdy’ when you see them