The Privilege to Ruin A Marriage but Not Marriage

“The actions of individual heterosexual men are never used against all heterosexuals. One of the central benefits of being part of a privileged social identity group is that your own behavior is never taken as representing that of your entire group. No matter how many stories we hear about heterosexual men committing adultery and destroying their marriages, why is it that we continue to hear that it is LGBT people that are the greatest threat to the institution of marriage?”

-Abby Ferber, Professor of Sociology and Women’s and Ethnic Studies

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