Okay...now tell me why same-sex couples can't marry?

[mumsisdaughter]

Tom Phillips 9th March 2010

Man marries pillow
 

True love can take many forms. In this case, it has taken the form of a Korean man falling in love with, and eventually marrying, a large pillow with a picture of a woman on it.
 
Lee Jin-gyu kisses his new bride, a pillow with a picture of anime character Fate Testarossa on it

Lee Jin-gyu fell for his 'dakimakura' - a kind of large, huggable pillow from Japan, often with a picture of a popular anime character printed on the side.
 

In Lee's case, his beloved pillow has an image of Fate Testarossa, from the 'magical girl' anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha.

Now the 28-year-old otaku (a Japanese term that roughly translates to somewhere between 'obsessive' and 'nerd') has wed the pillow in a special ceremony, after fitting it out with a wedding dress for the service in front of a local priest. Their nuptials were eagerly chronicled by the local media.
 
'He is completely obsessed with this pillow and takes it everywhere,' said one friend.
 
'They go out to the park or the funfair where it will go on all the rides with him. Then when he goes out to eat he takes it with him and it gets its own seat and its own meal,' they added.

The pillow marriage is not the first similarly-themed unusual marriage in recent times - it comes after a Japanese otaku married his virtual girlfriend Nene Anegasaki, a character who only exists in the Nintendo DS game Love Plus, last November.

Comments

[gairid.livejournal.com]

Oh, no. It's people like this that give the religio-fascists their ammo for the 'slippery slope' arguments. GAH!

[mumsisdaughter]

Love the icon, very appropriate. I've sent you an email that might make you feel a bit better. :)

I feel sorry for the guy because those around him are colluding to legitimise his fantasy. Mind you, I bet she doesn't snore or shave her legs with his razor.

[absinthe90.livejournal.com]

ARGH. XDDD Srsly. It's a topsy-turvy world, isn't it? O_O

[mumsisdaughter]

Indeed it is. The old adage 'there's nowt so queer as folk' seems appropriate here (no slight meant to gay or lesbian folk).

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

Well, I mean, 'queer' did mean 'weird' when that saying showed up to the party.... I still find it an obscure compliment to be called 'queer'. XD

[chiana606.livejournal.com]

Yikes. That's...well, I suppose stranger things have happened on this continent, but that's one of the weirdest I've heard of.

[mellifluous-ink.livejournal.com]

I have long since ceased to be surprised by anything that happens in Japan.

At least gay marriage is legal in Canada. Now, if people could just stop being so dumb about sex changes....