The Running of The Brides

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Saturday March 01, 2008 18:02

by Feminist Polemix

Annual Pamplona -type run of Nubile Brides in Boston and NYC

This being a leap year, anyone who wants to jump the broom and get the Alpha
male should have proposed last night... Today, was the annual (instituted in
1947) Filene's 'Running of the Brides' .

Thousands of young brides go haywire trying to buy a wedding gown in the bargain
basement of a huge Department store. It's a blood sport where the winners are
those that can squeeze their figures into a knock-down Vera Wang or some such
label.

Pamplona style

Women in America want to go to the altar, now if you read the sites where they
congregate to discuss 'Marriage and duty', its an eye-opener. It is so anti-feminist
and utterly insular that one would imagine that the results of US Foriegn Policy
throughout this planet have absolutely no bearing whatever on the life choices
of the young female.

She will willingly chatter away on ensuring modesty when attending church.:

i) it is important to cover the upper arms.
ii) The bosom/breast/decolletage should not be on show.
iii) Veils are making a huge comeback

I suppose the service women do not openly discuss the fact that their fiance's
and putative husbands have to go to clinics to have their sperm frozen, cos the
tools of war (which the average service man does not know much about)
lead to war trauma (erectile disfunction/emotional trauma/infertility/varieties
of cancer/post-trauma et al)

They do not speak of the woman's reproductive 'role' in the marriage but it's
hinted at in the responses to abortion queries- yes! you are going to hell if
you abort and to hell if you vote a pro-abortion candidate. This causes
problems:

1. Many Republicans support planned parenthood, including it seems
Senior Bush.

2. Obama has probs with Late pregnancy terminations and Clinton hedges
the issues whilst Mc cain insists that he will illegaise through the
appointment of conservative judges.

There appear to be little in the way of candidates who discuss feminism in a
way that relates to the reality of the poverty and precarity created by an electoral
system that has marginalised the poor.

All images of Filene' - Running of the Brides- had images of white women
in varied stages of undress, tearing the hair and clawing the gowns.

Do only white women get married?