Till death do us part or until it runs its course, whichever comes first
by Samuel John, MercatorNet:
Same-sex marriage has corrupted our views on commitment.
Sometimes politically-correct woke language hits you in the face. Chestfeeding, birthing people, BIPOC. While plenty of people will use this language to signal they’re on the Good Team, most people know these are mostly nonsense and don’t get too worried about it.
But sometimes you see a change in language that is a sign of something deeper, a shift that indicates people really do see an issue differently now. This isn’t always a negative. Chairperson instead of Chairman or Flight Attendant instead of Air Hostess – fine, no worries. You might think it’s a bit novel that Perth Airport now uses the Indigenous place name alongside the English name for destinations (ie. Canberra/Ngunnawal) but it’s not really that much of a concern.
Then sometimes something stops you in your tracks.
Last week I was reading an email invitation from a cinema to a special screening of the upcoming Steven Spielberg movie The Fabelmans. The summary of the plot read as follows:
The Fabelmans centres around 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman (Gabriel LaBelle playing a fictional version of Spielberg’s younger self) as he falls in love with the power of cinema and simultaneously witnesses his parents’ marriage running its course. His mother Mitzi (four-time Academy Award nominee Michelle Williams) is a pianist, unpredictable and emotional, a stark contrast to his scientific father Burt (Paul Dano) who is calm and logical.
Did you catch it? It’s subtle.
It’s just after the bit about the “power of cinema”. For an extra clue you might like to know that Spielberg’s parents got divorced.
Got it?
“Witnesses his parents’ marriage running its course.”
What a fascinating euphemism.
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