video; backdated to shortly after Meriken's "let's find America a date" post.

[cautious_knight]

Are there really no simple social rules in the future that people do still follow?

Comments

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

They usually are the ones who give their child away, after all.

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

I think it's more tradition. Women can lead their own lives.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

...What do you mean by that?

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

women can't be given away, because there father's can't really won them, even if they think they do.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

They would still marry into the husband's family.

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

It's really just a name. Titles, as such, don't have meaning anymore in most of the world.

[Says the guy who married a princess... but he beat the crap out of her betrothed and they eloped so it's different...]

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

Does family have any meaning there?

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's just not a power structure. It's who you care about and rely on, and who you have responsibilities for.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

But-

It's hard to grasp the concept of that, but it doesn't sound that bad.

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

It isn't really.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

A lot of safety and security gets lost by that, though.

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

It depends. I always looked after my brother, because I'm older and I needed to be responsible for him.

But if my wife had obeyed her father, she would have been the 12th wife of a man she despised.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

Why would he have married her to him?

[Marriages are often due to politics or ensuring a girl's economic safety...]

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

Because he was wealthy and powerful, and her father feared him.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

And he wanted to marry her?

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

Because she was beautiful, and a princess.

[watchful-knight.livejournal.com]

But her father can't have been a strong king.

[2ndhandlion.livejournal.com]

No, he wasn't. he was wealthy, but he was loosing his power because he was weak.