BlogsA Website To Marry Off Your Daughter For A Bride Price: Is It Real?
A site called Marry Our Daughter has come to my attention and I think it's not real but it might be real.
Parents put up their teenage daughters for a "bride price" and then you can propose. There is a whole section of the website where they explain the biblical origins of bride prices and what have you.
Now what's troubling is that as much as I want it to not be real, it kind of seems real. Whereas other sites like Meatwater and The $12.79 Heaven Kit seemed definitely fake, digging deep on MarryOurDaughter yields no silver bullet of pure fakery. So is it real? What do you think?
It can't be real, right?
UPDATE: OK it was really bugging me so I did some more checking and according to the NYTimes Bits Blog, I guess it's not real but people think it is, to the tune of 20 million page views in a 2-week period and thousands of angry emails and letters per day. Ostensibly the guy put it up as a prank for "drawing attention to inconsistencies in state marriage laws. States consider it a crime for adults to have sex with minors, but they allow kids as young as 12 to get married with parental and sometime judicial permission."
That's a pretty time-consuming prank if you ask me... and I'm not sure how effective it is. I'm going to go with not at all.
(via Geekologie)
Parents put up their teenage daughters for a "bride price" and then you can propose. There is a whole section of the website where they explain the biblical origins of bride prices and what have you.
Now what's troubling is that as much as I want it to not be real, it kind of seems real. Whereas other sites like Meatwater and The $12.79 Heaven Kit seemed definitely fake, digging deep on MarryOurDaughter yields no silver bullet of pure fakery. So is it real? What do you think?
It can't be real, right?
UPDATE: OK it was really bugging me so I did some more checking and according to the NYTimes Bits Blog, I guess it's not real but people think it is, to the tune of 20 million page views in a 2-week period and thousands of angry emails and letters per day. Ostensibly the guy put it up as a prank for "drawing attention to inconsistencies in state marriage laws. States consider it a crime for adults to have sex with minors, but they allow kids as young as 12 to get married with parental and sometime judicial permission."
That's a pretty time-consuming prank if you ask me... and I'm not sure how effective it is. I'm going to go with not at all.
(via Geekologie)
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