{"id":262,"date":"2016-09-30T11:07:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=262"},"modified":"2016-09-30T11:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:07:46","slug":"what-do-you-do-if-you-marry-a-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2016\/09\/30\/what-do-you-do-if-you-marry-a-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhat do you do if you marry a beast?\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere were \u00a0a lot of women, and most of them got married. \u00a0If they\u00a0couldn\u2019t marry each\u00a0other, and I didn\u2019t think they could, because of\u00a0having babies, some of them would inevitably have\u00a0to marry beasts.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not the first time Jeanette worries about her perceived impending marriage to a man. Having the foreknowledge that this is a coming out narrative, and that Jeanette will not be marrying a man, it creates a very recognizable instance of dramatic irony for the reader. \u00a0She only gives the idea of women marrying women a brief thought,\u00a0\u201c\u2026if they\u00a0couldn\u2019t marry\u00a0each other, and i\u00a0didn\u2019t think they could, because of having babies\u2026\u201d. \u00a0This bit of\u00a0\u2018logic\u2019\u00a0\u00a0illuminates the way her mother and the church have curbed her thinking; first, she assumed that women couldn\u2019t <\/i>marry\u00a0each other, even if they wanted\u00a0to, they couldn\u2019t. \u00a0<\/i>This line also perpetuates the Christian\u00a0ideology that marriage is for the functional purpose of procreation. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the way in which Jeanette glides over this possibility in her train of thought, is indicative of how ingrained this way of thinking is in her, as well as the finality of the church\u2019s\u00a0ideologies. \u00a0She goes on to wonder\u00a0\u201cIf only there was some way of telling, then we could operate a ration system.\u201d \u00a0This line, in concert with the aforementioned line, really demonstrate that\u00a0Jeanette has been conditioned to perceive marriage as functional, as a mere pairing of two people for its own sake, rather than something done out of love. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This small passage is so revealing of the type of thinking that has been instilled in Jeanette’s mind, totally unbeknownst to her. As a reader who is aware of the events to come, this seemingly innocent train of thought makes me very sad for Jeanette and also very frustrated towards her upbringing for implanting these ideologies that are contradictory to who she innately is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThere were \u00a0a lot of women, and most of them got married. \u00a0If they\u00a0couldn\u2019t marry each\u00a0other, and I didn\u2019t think they could, because of\u00a0having babies, some of them would inevitably have\u00a0to marry beasts.\u201d\u00a0 This is not the first time Jeanette worries about her perceived impending marriage to a man. Having the foreknowledge that this is … Continue reading \u201cWhat do you do if you marry a beast?\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}