I would think that the apparent difference in women's rights -- women in the military, running their own businesses, etc, presented as "not a new or strange thing" -- would affect laws concerning marriage, but I am too brain-fogged to work out a thorough theory of how.
Possibly that "love, honor, and obey" line goes out the window? The standardized state vows could be the same for both partners, with no references to servitude or providing or stuff.
OTOH no one bats an eyelash at Gracia being a housewife, either. I think they're socially close to us in many ways, closer than to 1910s society, definitely. Yes, women can do this that and the other, but they can also just get married and have kids. (I wonder if Gracia comes from a "traditional" family? Or if she had some job/vocation that she gave up, voluntarily or practically or necessarily, when she married/spawned?)
Plus, control by what is or isn't written down (or what records get destroyed -- but they existed to *be* destroyed) seems to be an important theme.
*nodding* A state like Amestris would be all up in people's business. Makes sense.
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Possibly that "love, honor, and obey" line goes out the window? The standardized state vows could be the same for both partners, with no references to servitude or providing or stuff.
OTOH no one bats an eyelash at Gracia being a housewife, either. I think they're socially close to us in many ways, closer than to 1910s society, definitely. Yes, women can do this that and the other, but they can also just get married and have kids. (I wonder if Gracia comes from a "traditional" family? Or if she had some job/vocation that she gave up, voluntarily or practically or necessarily, when she married/spawned?)
Plus, control by what is or isn't written down (or what records get destroyed -- but they existed to *be* destroyed) seems to be an important theme.
*nodding* A state like Amestris would be all up in people's business. Makes sense.