120
I'm a millennial and I've always referred to my partner as such. Boyfriend and girlfriend always seemed so weirdly juvenile, and it's interesting to leave things ambiguous for people who are immediately expecting to categorise you.
Same. It's also just a better generic term. You can say "all my partners" instead of "my boyfriend, girlfriend, and wife". So much easier and still accurate.
It's because of Borat.
I don't know about anyone else, but I started doing it because I want to destroy Western culture.
Funnily enough, due to Western culture marriage has become a business so 'partner' is more accurate.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Have you tried holding hands and kissing? I hear that causes hurricanes.
load more comments
(3 replies)
I started in order to advance the deep state woke agenda and get paid by Soros, personally.
load more comments
(2 replies)
I do it for two reasons: partly because it's fuck all business to anyone else (within reason) what the status of my relationship is.
Mainly though, because it generally messes with folk because they don't understand what it means, and feel compelled to ask silly questions about it.
Mainly though, because it generally messes with folk because they don't understand what it means, and feel compelled to ask silly questions about it.
Yeah, this is my favourite part of it.
I call my wife, "Comrade."
That's Our wife, Comrade
Well, a married household is basically a commune.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Mine and I are getting married this week and we were both excited to see "spouse" as an option on the documents.
We are now spouse and spouse.
I thought it was cool to see it when we got married a few years ago as well, though we opted to go with husband and wife.
load more comments
(1 replies)
Nobody asked, but as a gay man I exclusively refer to my husband as "my husband." I never liked the term "partner." We didn't start a business together, and we're not cops. "Life partner" bothers me less, but it still seems stilted
My partner said the exact same thing. I've always preferred "partner" - it just sounds nicer, like more respectful, egalitarian. We're mixed gender so it's wife/husband, which just sounds so old-fashioned
n+1 here, but I'm a bi woman married to a straight man and I've started using partner more recently because there's a lot of baggage in the history of power dynamics associated with the titles of husband and wife.
I also hope it makes people think for a minute if they need to ask me clarifying questions about my marriage status or sexuality/how the person I'm married to identifies.
At the same time, I totally understand the impact of not using generic words when it comes to gay marriage, where there was such a long fight to be recognized as husband and husband. So cheers to you and your husband!
Thank you, you've summed up a good clash of feelings around these terms with great economy.
When I (male) use the term wife to describe my relationship, I don't want to contribute to this feeling that I'm pulling for the default in an exclusionary kind of way. Like contributing to this cultured of presumed heteronormativity.
Better in my case to leave a little unsaid, so as to make room for other kinds of relationships.
I miss when my gay friends all called their partners "lovers".
As in literally if they were introducing their boyfriend, it was never "this is my boyfriend Chris" it was "this is Chris, my lover."
No idea if it was just a local thing but it was just so, well, lovely.
load more comments
(10 replies)
What else are you supposed to say after "Howdy"?
There are no other legitimate options.
neighbor, stranger, doody...
load more comments
(3 replies)
I mean I get it, there's an age at which referring to someone as your boyfriend or girlfriend feels a little lame.
load more comments
(7 replies)
My parents have always referred to each other as their partner, so that's what I've always done. It's just normal.
Since moving to the US people get so weird about it. I had a boss's boss ask me why I call my wife my partner in a skip-level. I was so confused I just stared at her and said "What?" It was like being ask why I think oranges are citrus fruit.
I'm an old guy. Since we (my "partner and I) are not married but have lived together for years (no common law here,) husband/wife doesn't apply. I don't know any other word to use other than partner, but it is still difficult for me to naturally say. Not sure why. Funnier (at our age) would be boyfriend and girlfriend. Uh ... no.
A family friend in a similar spot just referred to each other as "life partners". Any others it was just "partner" or "significant other".
My spouse and I just use SO (esso) for significant other. I like it more than partner as it is explicitly a romantic or at least very important relationship.
load more comments
(2 replies)
This is super common in most other English speaking countries and has been for years. Well before the culture wars.
I never knew this was considered wierd anywhere.
One of my coworkers gave me tons of crap for me saying it. But she was dumb.
Back in the day it did sound weird. Partner was usually a business relationship, not a romantic one, and it was almost exclusively used by the LGBT crowd.
More gender neutral terms are good, but they're still going to sound odd to folks who spent 40+ years hearing the terms used in a different way. That's just how progress goes, older folks eventually will either get used to it, or be the weird relative ignored at holidays.
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
120 points (100.0% liked)
News
23281 readers
3427 users here now
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS