"Marriage, in what is evidently its most popular version, is now on the one hand an intimate —relationship— involving (ideally) two successful careerists in the same bed, and on the other hand a sort of private political system in which rights and interests must be constantly asserted and defended. Marriage, in other words, has now taken the form of divorce: a prolonged and impassioned negotiation as to how things shall be divided. During their understandably temporary association, the —married— couple will typically consume a large quantity of merchandise and a large portion of each other."
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