Re: How to congratulation on sb's marriage

On 3 Aug 2005 13:04:00 -0700, "John O'Flaherty" <quiasmox@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>> But isn't adherence to this particular rule -- a bride should not be
>> 'congratulated' -- at least as offensive as violating the rule? If you
>> adhere to the rule, you are quietly implying a particular view of marriage
>> and the status of women that, in theory, is held by a person who
>> intentionally violates it, but not a person who unintentionally violates
>> it. If that makes sense.
>
>That's what I think. Having heard this rule, and the rationale for it,
>and assuming that the pair I'm congratulating have also heard both, I
>would be embarrassed to follow it. I would congratulate both, or wish
>them both a happy life.

That's why we're in a state of social decay...people like you making
up their own social conventions. We have people greeting the Pope
with "How they hangin', Padre?" and people like you refusing to
congratulate the groom if a happy life is also wished. Next thing you
know, bag boys at the grocery will be calling me "Pops" and foreign
dignitaries will be telling Laura Bush "Nice ass for a woman of your
age."


--
Tony Cooper
Orlando FL
.

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