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briandmyers  ·  3937 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did you ask your father in law if you could marry his daughter?

Also, consider this - why is it not expected, that my wife should ask permission to marry me?

It's something I almost didn't even think of, so ingrained is the 'female-as-the-property' idea in our culture, still.