Pets as children vs. spouses as "partners"

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I was browsing through normie social media yesterday and it suddenly hit me: in Clownworld if you have a dog, you're a "dog dad" or a "dog mom." If you have a wife or a husband, that's your "partner." I've been thinking about this since, along with thinking about how if I were to point it out to normies they'd at best find my doing so vaguely suspicious.

My wife was sitting next to me when this dawned on me. I took her hand and did a mock proposal where I asked her "will you be my partner?" Isn't that romantic, I asked. She rolled her eyes and laughed.

There was a thread on RVF about how modern day normies tend to have pets instead of children, but it looks like it didn't make it over to CiK.
 
There were a lot of things that contributed to my last relationship ending. It was death by a thousand cuts. But one of the not so insignificant issues was that she was more attentive to her pets than she was to me.

The real kicker though was the fact that I was a better, more attentive caregiver to her pets than she was. I gave them baths, clipped their nails, fed them, took them to the vet, walked them, and gave them their meds at a much higher level and frequency than she did. Why? Because her number one focus was her corporate job and her "family" and home life came in a distant second. In the process of climbing the corporate ladder she often neglected her pets and I by default was "forced" to pick up the slack.
 
The term "partner" was originally used by homosexual couples. I remember being in high school in the 2000s on a school trip to NYC where one of my classmates, upon seeing a gay couple remarked "Oh look at that guy and his 'partner'" in a disdainful and mocking tone with the mocking tone being emphasized when he said the word 'partner'. Now I hear normies use it all the time, including people who aren't necessarily super progressive. I think this is connected to how much LGBT culture has really just influenced all aspects of modern culture. It seems like a majority of the slang that gets used these days either comes from LGBT or black culture.
 
The term "partner" was originally used by homosexual couples. I remember being in high school in the 2000s on a school trip to NYC where one of my classmates, upon seeing a gay couple remarked "Oh look at that guy and his 'partner'" in a disdainful and mocking tone with the mocking tone being emphasized when he said the word 'partner'. Now I hear normies use it all the time, including people who aren't necessarily super progressive. I think this is connected to how much LGBT culture has really just influenced all aspects of modern culture. It seems like a majority of the slang that gets used these days either comes from LGBT or black culture.

First they tell you what NOT to say, then they tell you what to say, i.e., no saying fag or homo, and then demanding you use pronouns, etc. This is right in line with that. Partner was not just to appease the LGBT community, but to break down the idea of husband and wife. You just hear the words husband and wife and there is power and authority in them because they come from God.
 
First they tell you what NOT to say, then they tell you what to say, i.e., no saying fag or homo, and then demanding you use pronouns, etc. This is right in line with that. Partner was not just to appease the LGBT community, but to break down the idea of husband and wife. You just hear the words husband and wife and there is power and authority in them because they come from God.
My company recently have some kind of HR general sensitivity training we all had to take. It included a slide where it suggested using "less potentially offensive and discriminatory" terms like "partner" rather than "wife or husband." It was one of those moments when my jaw just hung open in shock and I needed a minute or two compose myself. I still call my wife my wife if I have to refer to her in work conversations and meetings, of course.

I agree that the intention is to devalue real marriages between a man and a woman. Imagine asking a woman to be your partner. It sounds like you want to start a small business with her, not a family.
 
I agree that the intention is to devalue real marriages between a man and a woman. Imagine asking a woman to be your partner. It sounds like you want to start a small business with her, not a family.
I think another reason for the use of partner besides the LGBT one is because of the high amount of long-term co-habiting couples. When you see a couple together and they have kids with them there's a solid chance that they aren't actually married. This would have been rare a few decades ago but it's common enough now where you can't always assume the man and woman you see with their children are actually married.
 
If-and Lord willing when-I find a good woman to marry and have children with I fully intend on correcting anyone who refers to her as my “partner” no matter how much it pisses them off. I’ve noticed that this seems to be a lot more common in parts of the U.K. and Europe and I have family there so it would probably come up in that case. It’s just plain confusing. If I’m in business with someone and I refer to them as a partner it makes sense, but today you need to specify and say something like “my business partner Edward” to avoid misunderstandings.
The term "partner" was originally used by homosexual couples.
I’ve been saying this for years.

I’ve heard the term “signifiant other” used as well for the person you’re involved with if you’re unmarried. At least with that there’s no confusion or second-guessing.
 
If-and Lord willing when-I find a good woman to marry and have children with I fully intend on correcting anyone who refers to her as my “partner” no matter how much it pisses them off. I’ve noticed that this seems to be a lot more common in parts of the U.K. and Europe and I have family there so it would probably come up in that case. It’s just plain confusing. If I’m in business with someone and I refer to them as a partner it makes sense, but today you need to specify and say something like “my business partner Edward” to avoid misunderstandings.

I’ve been saying this for years.

I’ve heard the term “signifiant other” used as well for the person you’re involved with if you’re unmarried. At least with that there’s no confusion or second-guessing.
It's all over Europe. I always interject. If a woman says it I assume and demandingly assume they're with a man. "My partner and I went to abc did xyz..." I'll say "So how did your husband and you like that?" to which I've gotten baffled looks. If a man says it I almost don't let him finish his sentence, I'll just spurt out "girlfriend, or wife?" and the look of embarrassment is hardly forgotten.

Partner was always a business term, then the fags ruined it like they did the rainbow. Everything they touch generates a barrier of revulsion 20 kilometers wide.
 
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