I found Jacqueline Taylor’s article, “Performing Commitment”, very intriguing. I liked how she compared the differences and similarities between her Baptist upbringing and her life with her partner and children. Maybe it’s because I’m a guy or I just don’t think about it much yet, but her insight into the whole wedding processes, meanings, and rituals was quite new to me.
I have never really thought too in depth into the marriage commitments and performances that it puts on to the culture around it. Taylor’s explanation of how her life as a lesbian with her partner has given difficulties in trying to gain the same responses that a heterosexual marriage receives.
In the final part of the essay about the legal ties that she and her partner have performed and those they wish to perform was probably my favorite section. When the two daughters were asked if they were sisters by the judge, and then thinking of how folly a question that was, was very moving. Hopefully, Carol and Jackie have performed the rituals that they were missing out on all those years, in the years since this essay was written.
Have you ever noticed how the rituals of a marriage have changed the two peoples' view by the public?
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