Shotgun Weddings

It's a long tradition that involves men taking repsonsibility to gun point.Not body today uses shotguns but maybe only the ultraconservative people.It's been used in many forms of media for comedy and for warning against men who get themselves into deep trouble with local conservative area women.

That fascist BS still exists? Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. That sums it up prefectly.

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I was kidding about that ultraconservatives still do it and actually I don't think anyone really does except just make sure that the guy doesn't runaway.

If it ever happens to you with an actual shotgun: Go through, get the Hell outta there ASAP, then demand an annullment.

edited 13th Sep '11 7:53:26 AM by SavageHeathen

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I doubt that it is all that common nowadays. After all, even in the most traditionalist enclaves I know of, having a child out of wedlock is not considered all that shameful anymore: as these groups tend to also be known for their strong anti-abortion positions, they tend to see a woman who gets pregnant out of wedlock and decides to carry him/her to term as someone who made a mistake and is now owning up to it, despite having the means to do otherwise.

On the other hand, having so dishonorable a man who would refuse to take responsibility under these circumstances*

as a son-in-law is definitely shameful, and there is no guarantee that he will not eventually just get a divorce and skip town.

So, while I don't doubt that such things still happen somewhere, I don't think that they are particularly common by now.

edited 13th Sep '11 8:02:51 AM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

I don't know of any shotgun weddings with actual shotguns. Or for that matter, where the father/brother of the bride forced the groom into it.

I did have a friend who sprung a "BTW, I am getting married next month'' on me, though it turned out he'd gotten his just-turned-eighteen Catholic girlfriend pregnant. The suspicion was he was doing it before someone forced him to.

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I know of a couple of cases like that, but then it was more that the man decided to own up to his mistake and take responsibility for his own son. I can respect this — it's a hard and difficult choice, as the choice of wife is perhaps not the one that they would have made otherwise, but it is the only honorable one in these circumstances.

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

One of my old co-workers had this happen to her. She got pregnant and did not want to marry the father, but both of their parents forced them anyways. At shotgunpoint. She said she was sobbing as she walked down the aisle.

All in all it didn't turn out too badly for them despite their less than stellar start.

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I have to wonder if anyone's refused a shotgun wedding and actually gotten shot. And if the shooter got his ass beat in prison for it. :P

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