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Your idea of marriage vows seems rather lifestyle-specific.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45lXXiLbTxM
Goreans are the creationists of lifestyle BDSMers...
I think that statement is likely to be insulting to just about everyone involved in the comparison. So I would like to learn exactly how you mean that.
I don't see how it's insulting to non-Gorean lifestyle BDSMers. And the others, well.
"Goreans are to lifestyle BDMSers as creationists are to _."
I filled that in with 'theists" because that is the group creationists are part of like Goreans are part of the BDSM community. Now that community has their safe, sane, and consensual lifestyle choices compared to allowing the belief in an imaginary friend to control your life with little restriction. The believers have their faith compared to the depraved antics of perverts. The enlightened science of the creationists is compared to the escapist delusions of the Goreans. And finally the <I am unqualified to even present a joking internalized definition of Gorean values, so pretend one sits here> compared to the mockery of science and clumsy apologetics of creationism.
Offense for everyone!
I was alluding to a Larry Summers quote:
The point was to insult the Goreans by comparing them to creationists, and that I hoped no one took them as a representation of lifestylers. I'm not sure why I got voted to -2, though.
That's a fantastic quote.