Married single sologamy can be self contained rebellion
Kshama Bindu will be the cynosure of all eyes next week. She plans to marry herself. Sologamy, as it’s called, doesn’t have legal standing but – and this is wonderful – it’s attracted more attention than most celebrity weddings. Sologamy is not new. Known instances of marrying oneself go back a couple of decades, and there may have been more examples that weren’t in the media glare in less obtrusive times. Regardless, the novelty of it will not disappear for it challenges the conventional building block of society, the institution of marriage.A commitment to oneself, and the joy of the wedding day without having to deal with what follows are among Bindu’s reasons for choosing sologamy. Conservatives obviously don’t like it. Humorists will note that divorce is far easier in sologamy – indeed, a Brazilian woman who married herself was reported to have divorced herself after she found love in another person. But, seriously, sologamy may represent yet another aspect of modern society’s economic transformation.
Most sologamists seem to be women. As chances of being economically independent on one’s own terms go up, opportunities to question orthodoxy and its prescriptions go up, too. Men don’t marry themselves perhaps because even now the social hierarchy favours them. In a country where ‘being a good wife’ is a sermon read to daughters of even wealthy families, sologamy can be seen as self-contained, peaceful rebellion.
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