Posted by
Ed Lilly on Saturday, November 01, 2008 8:26:58 AM
I've been saying, at least to myself, for some time that eventually we'll reach a point where a person can officially declare that he (or she, if we must be politically correct) is marrying himself/herself so that he/she is not being discriminated against based on marital status, the right to marry, etc. It will be weird and nonsensical. But it will happen.
And this story moves us just a little bit closer to that world.
If the guy in Japan gets the right to marry a cartoon character, the possibilities start to get pretty interesting. Want to marry a movie star's character from one of your favorite films? Why not? Meet my wife, Christie Brinkley as the hot girl from National Lampoon's Vacation! Shoot, my cousin could finally "marry" his ideal of feminine beauty, Grace Kelly. If we're not limited to three dimensional, sentient human beings, the sky's the limit. And eventually, we can just invent marriage partners, multiple marriage partners, and then legally "marry" ourselves.
Thankfully, I'm already married to a babe, so this won't apply to me. Though maybe I better make sure she isn't making plans for an alternate marriage reality....