Dating under a hypothetical theocratic fascist regime

[Ephrem Moseley]

Here is, from a purely heteronormative and fundamentalist (VERY fundamentalist) (yes I'm the only one now; all ideas start with one person) Christian POV, the benefits of knowing with 100% certainty who is a "woman" and who is a "man" and, of course, who are the "mutants" (hermaphrodites et al).

How?

EASY!!!

Enforced namespaces. No more "Pat"s or "Vivian"s or the like. At birth, you either choose a name from the male list or the female list based on the ruling of 3 farmers. Any disagreement means the first name on the birth certificate is, wait for it, "Mutant" or "Mutie" for short.

Yes, you may invent a new name at that point and it'll get added to the appropriate list. Yes, certainly, a person may change their name. They must first undress in front of 3 farmers.

So, a "man" knows by definition who he can date by checking the papers of any "woman" who presents said papers to him. Then, and only then, can he start the mating ritual.

Any questions so far? If not, I will now cover the details of said mating ritual.

[msquared]

No, please don't.

[Ephrem Moseley]

Ignored.

Okay. So, after the "man" knows who the "woman" is that he wishes to mate with (polygamy is A-OK if all his wives concur), he does nothing. He never ever says "no" to her. He might say "I don't understand" or "I'm not sure" it's quite Japanese-like in that sense.

Only she can escalate. She can attack him at any point. She is the one who proposes marriage if that is what she desires.

Easy isn't it?

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If she proposes, and he accepts, then half of her father's ownings go to him as a dowry, because men are "better" than women.

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Do I want any of this?

No. No I don't. But you TRAs have pissed me off. Pedophiles support you behind the scenes and you don't care enough about that. You care about your own bodily autonomy and sexuality more.

There are NO TRANSGENDER PEOPLE until the brain is done developing around age 25 or so.

You left me no choice, and I am bipolar.

So it's your own fault.

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and he who laughs last...

[cherrypoptart]

I don't know about the dating but the naming thing needs to move in the other direction. You can't choose a male or female name at birth as you suggest because nobody will know the gender of the child until they get old enough to tell you so all names must be gender neutral.

Of course, an easy way to come to gender neutral names is for all names to be equally acceptable for all genders, all 58 of them. We're making headway on that with the parents nowadays naming their girls George, which interestingly enough apparently used to be a name for girls back in the day. Yes, I see I made an assumption there in assuming the individuals named George were girls before they could identify themselves. The parents do call these babies daughters which is also a premature assumption. All this is going to take some getting used to. And patience. And I mean like years of patience for people to find out the genders of their children.

[Ephrem Moseley]

I don't know about the dating but the naming thing needs to move in the other direction. You can't choose a male or female name at birth as you suggest because nobody will know the gender of the child until they get old enough to tell you so all names must be gender neutral.

Of course, an easy way to come to gender neutral names is for all names to be equally acceptable for all genders, all 58 of them. We're making headway on that with the parents nowadays naming their girls George, which interestingly enough apparently used to be a name for girls back in the day. Yes, I see I made an assumption there in assuming the individuals named George were girls before they could identify themselves. The parents do call these babies daughters which is also a premature assumption. All this is going to take some getting used to. And patience. And I mean like years of patience for people to find out the genders of their children.

names are based on genitalia only I apologize for not being clear

vaginas are allocated one list of names, penii another, and they never overlap

see?

[Ephrem Moseley]

Divorce?

Lose all of your wives and live as a monk. That's if the male initiates.

If you're female, you just say "I divorce you" three times and you're free to marry again. Divorce as many times as you wish. You get your share of property (dividing by number of wives). You get all the children you bore, of course. And adopted kids too, although adoption will basically be unheard of in this new-normal.

My advice, again, is to NEVER EVER say "no" to ANY female.

Otherwise they'll gang up on you. Also, maybe make sure she's really head-over-heels in love with you.

Note that only females write wedding vows. Last chance to back out males.

Polygamy ain't for the faint of heart that's for sure.

Sexual infidelity, or violation of a wedding vow, as measured by the priest who hears the Confession?

Priest decides what happens.

So you'd better 100% trust both your spouse(s) and who you Confess to.

Keep in mind life is assumed to be eternal. So wait a hundred years or so as platonic friends. No sex and no kids of course. So start a school together, that is my advice.

(are we at the Howard Stern effect yet?)

[Ephrem Moseley]

some females will choose a single wedding vow: "I vow to do everything you ask".

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to which the smart males will reply (although no reply is required): "ditto".

[Ephrem Moseley]

why polygamy and not polyamory?

Good question!

Because evolution has made the male the leader.

You cannot have two leaders!!!