{"id":233476,"date":"2017-05-15T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=233476"},"modified":"2017-05-16T16:08:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T20:08:52","slug":"would-you-marry-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/05\/15\/would-you-marry-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Marry You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: You know, we covered this. We had this story in March in The Limbaugh Letter<\/a>. Now, here it is May. This is a story from… What\u2019s the Web site? WUSA. This is Channel 9 somewhere. Is this in Washington? I\u2019m not sure. Here\u2019s the headline: “People Are Marrying Themselves, It\u2019s Called ‘Sologamy.<\/a>‘”\u00a0Sologamy. I wanted to pronounce it “solo” to get people the root. Sologamy. It\u2019s sologamy. “If the secret to a happy marriage is finding the right person, we can all stop looking. At least, according to ‘sologamists.\u2019<\/p>\n

“They\u2019re part of a growing relationship trend, in which people are tying the knot to themselves. Erika Anderson is one of them.” Would you marry you? I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m too selfish to marry myself. I don\u2019t want to share myself with myself. I\u2019m too self-focused. I\u2019m too set in my ways. I wouldn\u2019t want to marry me. ‘”I would describe it as women saying yes to themselves,\u2019 Anderson said. ‘It means that we are enough, even if we are not partnered with someone else.'”<\/p>\n

Meaning for Erika Anderson: I don\u2019t need no stinking guy! I got everything I need with me. I am enough. She\u2019s 37 years old, and she\u2019s a “bride.” She actually did marry herself. “In many ways, the 37-year-old bride looked like any other on her wedding day.” She did. She had a wedding day! “She wore a white dress and had a bouquet. Anderson looked stunning with the Brooklyn Bridge and New York City skyline behind her. Except when she walked down the aisle, no one was waiting for her.<\/p>\n

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“That\u2019s just the way she wanted it. Anderson said she grew tired of people asking why she was still single. So, in front of family and friends she married herself. Self-marriage…” You think these…? Liberal, conservative? Which do you think she is? “Self-marriage — or sologamy — is growing. Partly because it\u2019s popping up in pop culture, like when an episode of Sex and the City floated the idea. Now, the movement…” By the way, you remember way back…?<\/p>\n

Mr. Snerdley, do you remember back in the eighties and nineties when Tipper Gore and other moms would go on TV and hit and criticize primetime television as a bad influence? If you depict drug usage, police brutality — depict crime or you glorify certain immorality… The TV execs all said, “No, no, no! You can\u2019t blame us for that! This is just entertainment. There\u2019s nobody could make the case that this stuff was influencing anyone.” Now, it\u2019s just the opposite. Everybody acknowledges the influence of television.<\/p>\n

They acknowledge it. They promote it. They compliment it. It\u2019s not a bad thing at all. (interruption) Dan Quayle. That was Murphy Brown. And that was… What was her name? Candice Bergen. That\u2019s where we got this all started. She was a single mother, and she had a baby, and she was doing this Mary Tyler Moore-type job in television or something, and Quayle ripped the show for being a bad example. She ended up agreeing with him, by the way, but before that… It was some years later. Some years later, she ended up agreeing with him.<\/p>\n

At the time, they came after Quayle like he was Trump. He was an idiot. He was a buffoon. “Well, you can\u2019t be serious! A show influencing the way people behave? Don\u2019t be silly. You\u2019re such a jerk, Mr. Vice President. You\u2019re such an idiot.” I\u2019m telling you, now there\u2019s a 180. Now they promote this, as is the case here. Sex and the City? Wonderful for women! It\u2019s almost a bible for women. Sex and the City — the TV show, Sex and the City the movie — Orange Is the New Black? I mean, you name it.<\/p>\n

\"\"All these programs are held up as great role models for the youths of America to behave. “Self-marriage — or sologamy — is growing. Partly because it\u2019s popping up in pop culture, like when an episode of Sex and the City floated the idea. Now, the movement has gone global and companies are trying to capitalize. ‘Marry Yourself\u2019 in Canada offers consulting and wedding photography. There\u2019s also IMarriedMe.com, launched by San Francisco man Jeffrey Levin.<\/p>\n

“His site offers sologamy ceremony kits…” I\u2019m just pronouncing it “sologamy” so that you understand. If I said “sologamy,” without this story, how many of you would know what I\u2019m talking about? So I\u2019m pronouncing it “solo” (i.e., by myself) “gamy,” or sologamy may be the more effective pronunciation. Anyway, “His site offers sologamy ceremony kits, which includes a wedding band, daily affirmation cards and vows.”<\/p>\n

He says, “‘[Man], I think it\u2019s increased over the years, and it\u2019s something that\u2019s becoming more understood and more accepted.\u2019 [Erika] Anderson married herself to celebrate independence and believes others should, too. ‘You\u2019re worth it!'” she said to herself at the ceremony. (interruption) I don\u2019t know if she got batteries as a wedding present. You know what? That\u2019d be very thoughtful. That would be…<\/p>\n

You give somebody marrying themselves a present of batteries? That is really insightful. That shows you care. That shows you\u2019re really thinking about it. But I don\u2019t think if she got batteries. And then from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Opinion: For Some Gay Parents, Mother\u2019s Day Is Awkward.” I wonder why. Why would Mother\u2019s Day be awkward for gay parents? Wait. Gay parents. Notice how that just slipped right by me. (laughing)<\/p>\n

All right, that\u2019s enough of this for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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