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civil unions were sorta funny. it was like bsd. you can have the same thing but you can’t call it marriage. after awhile it becomes obvious its just sorta a stupid waste of time and we will use the same word. Granted I was for it because I know there is a subset of my country that needs the name thing to make it more palatable till their children are grown and don’t care.
It was straight-up bigotry, and I hate every minute I spent arguing that with douchebags on reddit. Mostly people too stupid to figure out “one man one woman” is discrimination on the basis of sex… or too stupid to realize their smug denial was utterly transparent.
If men can only do X and women can only do Y, you don’t need a fucking diagram.
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What’s the deal with Asia
Opposition in North Africa, the Middle East and parts of South and South East Asia is at least partially explained by religious political ideology.
Russia, as the biggest area, and China might be fueled by opposition to their percieved cultural enemies.
I don’t know why India and Japan haven’t legalised marriage equality yet.
Non religious conservatism is a thing. Those countries also tend to be much worse on women’s rights too.
India? the country with deeply rooted religious society that has little regard for women in general? that India would go for equality?
I was so sure this map was wrong showing nothing in the UK in the first map, but civil unions came in in 04 not 03.
Also its crazy how this is almost entirely limited to Europe and places with strong historical ties to Europe (with the notable exception of Taiwan)
Why? Who else would come before that? Europe & North America are the most progressive places on Earth for quite a while now.
Its not that its first that is surprising, its that with one exception its only them.
Again: Who else? The rest of the world is in varying degrees of “ass backwards”, especially regarding social issues. Hell, a lot of them aren’t even moving forward but backward.
I’d really expect southeast asia next considering historical support for third genders there
The thing is that Abrahamic religions were extremely ass backwards on this issue for the longest time. My expectation would be that countries with a majority of atheists or buddhists would never have been as ass backwards about gays in the first place.
IIRC China is supposedly atheist, and so was the Soviet Union, but things were not particularly rosy there either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history_in_the_Soviet_Union
Whether religion or not, it’s often a case of despicable hardliners taking charge and making things worse for pretty much everyone but them.
Wow BC and Ontario killing it, who would have thought
I think Thailand should also be blue
I thought they literally only just allowed same-sex marriage.
No heterosexual marriage allowed?
The last map is based on data from 2023, so some things have changed since then.
