Gay Marriage

In an article on Gay Marriage - or as my friend has taken to calling it "Genderless Marriage" a term I have decided to adopted - Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi are called Ms. DeGeneres and Ms. de Rossi. Normally I wouldn't have thought twice about it. But they're married. It didn't seem like the right titles. Mind you I'm not a big fan of titles generally in newspaper articles, I think all readers will understand who is meant by "DeGeneres", rather than "Ms. DeGeneres". Which, as a side note, completely relates to our cultural obsession with forcing gender identities on to living things. I mean who cares if that PERSON walking down the street is "male" or "female". Does it matter? Really? In the larger scheme of things? As long as they've found someone they can happily get freakly with in their own bedroom I don't care what pronoun may or may not be referred to using.

Returning to DeGeneres and de Rossi. Why are they "Ms. DeGeneres and Ms. de Rossi" rather than "Mrs. and Mrs. DeGeneres and de Rossi"? Did the writer think their readers would assume they were married to other people, even when the entire article was about their marriage to EACH OTHER? "Mrs." is the married female title. They are both married females. They just happen to be married to another female. So what? They're still married. They can legally commit adultery.

But let's just get rid of titles. How about it? We don't officially recognize soveriegn titles, so why these? Mind you I see no problem with academic titles as they are already genderless.

Down with gendered titles. Down with them.