The world rejects the premise: 64 % refuse to call marriage outdated, against 14 % who do. A fifth of voters (21 %) have no opinion, which is a lot. It is the sign of a question whose answer depends mostly on the life you lead.
The gender gap is the sharpest of the day: women reject the idea overwhelmingly (86 % no), while men scatter across all three options and account for most of the hesitation.
By age, 18-to-24-year-olds follow the global majority without amplifying it, 45-to-54-year-olds are unanimously against the premise, and the over-65s split evenly in two. The generation closest to marrying age is, in other words, less categorical than the one that has already been through it.
The most endorsed voices come from both camps at once, and say almost the same thing. On the « no » side, the defence is of a commitment that offers legal protection and retains symbolic value, with one argument returning repeatedly: marriage is not disappearing, it has adapted, and opening it to same-sex couples proves as much.
On the « yes » side, nobody calls for the institution to end. What is described instead is a box to tick, a social marker whose pressure should ease, everyone remaining free to commit or not. One voice sums up the camp's irony with a line borrowed from Beigbeder, « love lasts three years », but the substantive argument remains one of choice.
The friction point is therefore not the usefulness of marriage but its obligatory character. Both camps converge on a point the most consensual voice states outright: there is no universal answer, it all depends on each person's convictions, family situation and finances.