And why single out red hair, rather than, say, the ridiculous, function-free "ties" most male MPs wear? (View Post)

Yes - and comes directly from the changes in contemporary Roman law instituted by Augustus to reassert control over the amazingly chaotic legal status of marriage that had evolved by the late Republi… (View Post)

But not necessarily a monogamous one. However, the outlawing of polyandry in China and India in the 1950s, alongside the existing Western European position (and Japan's earlier change in that regard … (View Post)

Yes - it's that legal/tax side that happens to be framed in terms of "pairs of people", and that's a hang-over from the historic construction of marriage from the prevailing moral authority… (View Post)

The two sides of the debate. We call them "the man" and "the straw man" for easy identification. (View Post)