One more thing I have to add about Rachel’s staggering presumption of her customary special snowflake status: EVEN IF Kurt and Blaine were equals in civil rights, they would not be equivalent levels of stupid if they both respectively said yes to proposals from their boyfriends.

FINCHEL -

• Have been through more rounds of mutual infidelity than a marriage between Newt Gingrich and Elizabeth Taylor

• Have broken up, lied to each other, manipulated each other, used each other, and hurt each other so many times I’ve long ago lost count.

• Perform their relationship as a public spectacle more than an actual relationship; they are one another’s leading man and lady.

• Seem to have no concept of actual consequences, realistic expectations, responsibility, or anyone outside themselves as a couple.

• Are using each other to feel better about themselves and have admitted it.

• Went into this whole marriage thing out of a desperate attempt to cling to the highschool success and status they give each other and to feel like they’ve done something.

• Communicate as meaningfully with one another and trust one another about as well as Rick Santorum trying to shout rescue instructions in Spanish at a gay Brazilian cruise liner from a sinking Somalian pirate ship.

• Engage in ridiculous jealousy drama and treat one another like property to the point of Finn physically assaulting Jesse for going platonically to the prom with Rachel WHILE HE WAS THERE WITH QUINN JUST FOR THE SOCIAL STATUS.

KLAINE -

• Have never cheated, but have communicated openly and honestly about temptations and invitations to do so. When Blaine did have a crush on someone else before they got together, Kurt actually asked him about his feelings and intentions like a mature adult and got a mature response instead of storming hysterics.

• Have consistently treated one another with dignity, support, affection, attention, and respect. Do you think for a moment that if Rachel thought Finn had bombed her Broadway dreams, even accidentally, she’d have brought flowers and congratulations?

• Are open but necessarily subdued in public. The majority of their relationship is personal, though they do not make an effort to hide that they are a couple.

• Are acutely aware that they are both targets and role models and support each other and third parties through the resultant difficulties (the Karofsky arc, “courage”, prom, Perfect, student president, etc). They also have learned to carefully consider every action for their own safety (the kilt issue, boxing, etc)

• Already both had a solid and positive sense of self before beginning the relationship, and make no efforts to change each other, unlike Finchel’s extensive lists.

• Are in the relationship despite the negative effect it has on them socially and even the danger it puts them in.

• Communicate constantly, openly, honestly, even about painful or uncomfortable topics, and without ever attacking, bullying, or demeaning one another.

• Confront the inappropriate third party in a socially acceptable way when someone “moves in on” the relationship VERY explicitly.

Yeah. Frankly, if she sees the two couples as on equal ground in terms of a healthy relationship ready to take the next step of commitment, she’s way more delusional than I’d feared. Or worse, she actually believes the crap she reads and watches about what romance is ‘supposed’ to look like. NOT saying Klaine are ready either…but then again, in recognizing that, they prove yet again how much closer they are.