WaPo Profiles Gayest Straight Marriage

Why bother to call any of this a marriage?

“A new crop of couples are making content about their mixed-orientation marriages, divorced from sexual attraction but not love,” The Washington Post writes.

There’s plenty of precedent for loveless marriages. There’s less precedent for “an asexual tradwife” married to her best friend, a “solo poly” woman who “occasionally dates outside their marriage.” (RELATED: ROOKE: Gen Z Divorces Are Just As Abnormal As You’d Expect: No Shame, Quick Splits, And ‘Queer Solidarity’)

April Lexi Lee told The Washington Post her family was “shocked, but at the same time, not surprised” when she announced she was going to marry her childhood best friend, Renee Wong.

Both women are in their late 20s and are “on the asexual spectrum,” the Post notes.  

They were alerted to the possibility of marrying each other by the Lee’s TikTok algorithm, which “started delivering her videos about ‘Boston marriages,’ a term from the 19th century for pairs of women who lived together without men.”

So … friends?

Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Durek Verrett, whose 2024 wedding was featured in the Netflix documentary ‘Rebel Royals: An Unlikely Love Story,’ reacted to claims they have a “lavender marriage.” https://t.co/jYqkkYhMGw pic.twitter.com/6rZGLZWrZr

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One wonders whether TikTok’s Chinese equivalent, Douyin, is seeding such suggestions in the minds of its users.

“I feel like there is a lot of tension between the genders right now, particularly a lot of women feeling like men aren’t doing it for them, like they’re not showing up for their needs,” Lee told the Post. “And then on the flip side, a lot of men feeling resentful that they are never enough for women and feeling that rejection.”

The solution, obviously, is to abandon the opposite sex entirely. 

Samantha Wynn Greenstone, 38, and Jacob Hoff, 32, had plenty of incentive to do just that. Greenstone is straight. Hoff is gay.

They have been in a “committed monogamous relationship for nearly 10 years.”

Greenstone “knew [Hoff] was gay when they met in a San Diego production of ‘Fiddler on the Roof.’”

He is not bisexual, the Post maintains.

Still, the couple came about getting pregnant the old fashioned way. 

Greenstone fell pregnant with Hoff’s child after they, in Greenstone’s words, “birds’d” and “bees’d.” 

“If anything, I think we are taking the sanctity of marriage to a whole new level,” Greenstone told the Post.

Call me new fashioned, but I don’t hate this. A man and a woman got married and conceived a child through sex. If that’s a gay marriage, alright.

But why bother sharing the sordid details with the world?

Hoff and Greenstone “spend much of their day making videos and responding to skeptics, supporters and other curious commenters.” Their marriage is their career. (RELATED: Forget The Battle Of The Sexes, This Generation Wants A Battle-Mate)

Greenstone told the Post most of their online support comes from conservatives. Their relationship is a “safe package” for such types.

What else is being smuggled in? 

Hoff and Greenstone told The Washington Post they visited a therapist early in their relationship.

“She told us she’s a straight woman who’s married to a woman,” Hoff said. “And we kind of all blew each other’s minds in that session, because she had never really seen this dynamic before.”

Right, because as with the asexual lesbo-platonic tradwives, that’s not a marriage.

Back to my original question: Why bother to call these relationships a marriage? Why are Greenstone and Hoff concerned with presenting a “safe” image of subversion?

To expand the definition of marriage beyond all intelligible meaning, of course.

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