Man Marries Foam Cut-Out of Himself

A few years ago, there were some women in my town who got together, called the newspaper, and each got married to herself. No, they were not lesbians. They all just realized they were going to be single for the rest of their lives so they might as well stop waiting around. Thus, they wanted everyone to know they were finally happy with their singlehood.

I thought the whole thing was stupid, and I still do. The whole thing reeks of the Oprah-watching, granola-eating soft feminism I loathe so much. But while the women I spoke about before were trying to put a positive spin on their situation, not so the man in this story Ananova reports upon. Lui Ye, the man in the photo above, married himself to express his "dissatisfaction with reality".

This was no life-affirming new age ceremony either. This guy created a life-sized cardboard cut-out of himself in a bridal dress. After claiming himself "whole", he also admitted that he was "narcissistic" — in a totally non-gay way, that is. Hence, this whole ceremony was based upon disappointment. In my opinion, that's the worst reason to get married.

So I guess the reason why I feel compelled to write about this is because I know I can't afford a ticket to China just so I could tell Lui Ye my whole opinion on this "marriage". Let me have my say here, then. If you are dissatisfied with reality, it is time you change it. If you do not like the way things are, there is no reason why you cannot make it a point to get up in the morning and do things differently. You do not need marriage.