Occasionally, a specific policy proposal will get people thinking, and their critiques will slip the bounds of the particular issue in question to get to something much bigger and more sweeping. That’s what’s happening now in the UK.
The policy, called “the bedroom tax,” was proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron and “involves nothing more than cutting some welfare benefits for people in under-occupied homes – those with spare bedrooms.” The focused critiques underscore the ways in which the proposed tax would hit the most vulnerable the hardest, including, for example, “the disabled, foster parents and divorced couples who share the care of their kids.”
At the Guardian, Priyamvada Gopal took the boarder, more encompassing view, and asked, “Is compulsory coupling really the best way to live?” In her article, she reminded us of some of the most important challenges to the common mythology about the supposed superiority of the coupled.
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I’m a little surprised to hear that matrimania is an issue in the UK. I know that Britain is far less religious than the US, and matrimania seems closely associated with religion. I’ve also heard that British men are less into traditional sex roles, something also associated with matrimania.
Granted, I’ve also heard that British men practice a sexism not seen in the US since the Mad Men era, so perhaps there are more conservative strains there that could drive matrimania