When white women are inconvenienced, it's BIG NEWS!!!

When a big story breaks in this town like the fire yesterday in Waldo, all of the local media outlets are all over it and for the most part it's a good thing that they try to get every angle of the story.

However, I couldn't help but laugh yesterday upon hearing that the bridal store in the building burned down as well along with the ensuing reports of brides throughout the metro who faced hardship because of the fact. And no, I'm not making fun of the suffering of the business owners or folks who had weddings that could have been "ruined" because they didn't have a piece of cloth but it's just hard for me to find a "human interest" angle in the angst of people who have enough money to buy dinner for hundreds of people and parade around like an idiot during what is most often a religious ceremony in other cultures. Additionally, I don't even want to get into how blood diamonds are almost always a part of these big, posh weddings where a fancy dress is involved.

Still, the reports of this distressed brides made me think how unbelievably lucky I am that I was never trapped (thank you Trojans!) with a broad who would spend hundreds (if not thousands) on a white (or even off white) dress that is a cultural indicator of purity where every man, woman and child in the room where the thing is displayed is aware that the virginal symbolism of the dress is nothing more than one of many lies upon which all marriages are built.

What's more I think that a really nice, white wedding dress is also misleading when it comes to a dude making what might be upwards of a 5 to 10 year commitment to a broad . . . Over that time women never, NEVER look as good as they did before the wedding so I think that a broad who eschews all of the cultural trappings and walks down the aisle naked is really showing everyone that she's got nothing to hide. Obviously, that's far more important than the long list of former lovers she has no doubt taken AND more importantly it lets everyone see where the saddlebags will hang firsthand. In the end, unfortunately, it's all about honesty or at least how well relationships can hold the truth at bay.

And on a completely unrelated note to this whole rant . . . It was interesting to read that local blog Frighteningly Uncommon Sense got in on the new gathering action as the insightufl author revealed (during an interview on NewsRadio 980 KMBZ) that she was not an insane bride and only slightly inconvenienced by the whole mess and thankfully did not take it as a bad omen.

And I guess that's my point, nearly every big wedding with a nice dress I've ever seen has been about all of the expensive, material crap that people come up with to impress their guests and rarely has anything to do with the intentions of the couple and how difficult, nearly impossible it is to keep any kind of commitment in an age where almost every convenience is only a click away.