Is this outrageously offensive or am I just

[eightangryreindeer]

overreacting?

www.thestreet.com/story/11536487/1/10-stocks-set-to-benefit-from-gay-marriage.html

[ct]

I'm not offended.

Any time anyone wants to discuss the benefits of gay marriage, I welcome it. Sure, I'm more in the camp of non-discrimination and civil liberties, but money makes the world go round!

[eightangryreindeer]

No no, I meant the part about gay men shopping at Men's Wearhouse.

kidding. I'm kidding. (hopes you like a joke)

I feel you, maybe I am just offended on behalf of marriage in general. Although I guess it was born of the commodification of women...

things to ponder...

[ElsaVonM]

No, it's not outrageously offensive. Especially when you compare it to, say, an article about how gay marriage is going to bring about the end of society as we know it.

Weddings = Money. That ship sailed long before the gays got involved

[bluedaisyus]

I don't think it's outrageously offensive, but I don't think you're overreacting either. It definitely gets an eye roll from me. I think it's a convenient vehicle to write an article about stocks, but the idea that we're all just sitting around waiting to get married until they decide it's legal and there's suddenly going to be a mad rush of gay weddings that will have that much of an impact on the value of the stock for those companies is a bit questionable to me. People are already getting married and spending money, I think the bigger impact will be that people will be more likely to keep their money local rather than traveling to have a marriage that's legally recognized somewhere. We got married 5 years ago in Ohio in our church even though recognition of it was already prohibited in our state constitution. We did take our honeymoon money to Canada and made it legal there, and it's possible that we would have kept that money here in the states if our marriage had been legally recognized but I doubt it, we were pretty set on where we wanted to go and getting married again legally there was more of a "hey, we CAN, so why not?" sort of thing rather than a deciding factor in our destination. Now, my SIL and her partner will likely get married once it's legal and don't have any desire to have any kind of ceremony until that happens, and they're definitely not alone so I'm sure there will be some effect, but I'm dubious about its impact on those stocks' values.

And I'm sorry, but...Shutterfly? Really?