Why call all this a marriage?
“A new generation of couples is posting content about their mixed marriages, separated from sexual attraction but not love,” writes the Washington Post.
There are many precedents of loveless marriages. There is less precedent for “an asexual tradwife” married to her best friend, a “solo poly” woman who “dates occasionally outside of their marriage.” (RELATED: ROOKE: Gen Z Divorces Are Just as Abnormal as You’d Expect: No Shame, Quick Separations, and ‘Queer Solidarity’)
April Lexi Lee told the Washington Post that her family was “shocked, but at the same time, not surprised” when she announced she was marrying her childhood best friend, Renee Wong.
Both women are in their late 20s and are “on the asexual spectrum,” the Post notes.
They were alerted to the possibility of getting married through Lee’s TikTok algorithm, which “started delivering her videos about “Boston weddings,” a 19th century term for couples of women who lived together without men.
So… friends?
Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Durek Verrett, whose 2024 wedding was featured in the Netflix documentary “Rebel Royals: An Improbable Love Story,” have responded to claims they are having a “lavender wedding.” https://t.co/jYqkkYhMGw pic.twitter.com/6rZGLZWrZr
– AND! News (@enews) October 9, 2025
One wonders if TikTok’s Chinese equivalent, Douyin, is planting such suggestions in the minds of its users.
“I feel like there’s a lot of tension between the sexes right now, especially a lot of women feeling like men aren’t doing it for them, like they’re not showing up to meet their needs,” Lee told the Post. “And then on the other hand, a lot of men feel resentment about never being enough for women and feel this rejection.”
The solution is obviously to abandon the opposite sex altogether.
Samantha Wynn Greenstone, 38, and Jacob Hoff, 32, had ample incentive to do so. Greenstone is straight. Hoff is gay.
They have been in a “committed monogamous relationship for almost 10 years”.
Greenstone “knew [Hoff] was gay when they met in a San Diego production of “Fiddler on the Roof.”
He is not bisexual, the Post claims.
However, the couple got pregnant the old-fashioned way.
Greenstone became pregnant with Hoff’s child after, in Greenstone’s words, “the birds” and the “bees.”
“If anything, I think we’re taking the sanctity of marriage to a whole new level,” Greenstone told the Post.
Call me new, but I don’t hate it. A man and a woman married and conceived a child through sexual intercourse. If it’s a gay marriage, fine.
But why bother sharing these sordid details with the world?
Hoff and Greenstone “spend much of their day making videos and responding to skeptics, supporters and other curious commenters.” Their marriage is their career. (RELATED: Forget the Battle of the Sexes, This Generation Wants a Battle Buddy)
Greenstone told the Post that most of their online support comes from conservatives. Their relationship is a “safe package” for these guys.
What else is being smuggled?
Hoff and Greenstone told the Washington Post that they saw a therapist early in their relationship.
“She told us she was a straight woman married to a woman,” Hoff said. “And we were all blown away in that session because she had never really seen that dynamic before.”
That’s right, because as with asexual lesbo-platonic women, it’s not marriage.
Back to my original question: why bother calling these relationships a marriage? Why do Greenstone and Hoff care about presenting a “safe” picture of subversion?
To expand the definition of marriage beyond any intelligible meaning, of course.
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