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We Can't Have a Feminist Future Without Abolishing the Family
Vice ^ | February 21, 2020 | Marie Solis

Posted on 02/28/2020 2:07:02 PM PST by Trump20162020

A little more than two weeks before I planned to meet the feminist theorist Sophie Lewis, her mother died. She had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in March, requiring Lewis to travel back and forth between her home in Philadelphia and a hospital in the UK—a journey she technically wasn’t allowed to make due to the pending status of her green card. When her mother passed away in late November, she did so thousands of miles away, while Lewis and her brother sang the Taylor Swift song “Safe and Sound” to her over Skype.

Earlier that month, at a lecture in Lower Manhattan hosted by the arts journal e-flux, Lewis, who is 31, reflected on what some might see as an obvious irony to her crisscrossing the ocean to care for her ailing mother: Verso Books had just published her first book, Full Surrogacy Now, a polemic that calls for abolishing the family.

And so we can also make them different, Lewis argues. She imagines a future where the labor of making new human beings is shared among all of us, “mother” no longer being a natural category, but instead something we can choose.

Even those of us who might call our family situations relatively “happy” should sign onto this project of demolishing their essential structure, Lewis says. Nuclear households create the infrastructure for capitalism, passing wealth and property down family trees, concentrating it in the hands of the few at the top of our class hierarchy. Maintaining the traditional family structure over time has also meant exploiting people of color and disowning queer children.

(Excerpt) Read more at vice.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: antibreeder; communism; families; family; feminazism; feminism; feminist; homofascism; marxism; sophielewis; vicesux
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To: Travis McGee

A reckoning is coming, my friend.

Best be ready.

L


21 posted on 02/28/2020 2:36:11 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: SkyDancer
"Guess they'll just call us gestation providers."

I had an Evangelical who was all lathered up over Catholics calling Mary the Mother of God tell me Marry was, "just an incubator, nothing more than a human incubator."

Odd how people who most likely have very little else in common can insist that using term "mother" is bad.

22 posted on 02/28/2020 2:41:47 PM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Travis McGee

They are not even trying to hide their agenda anymore.

Just putting it all out in the open

Stunned at how successful they are getting away with it


23 posted on 02/28/2020 2:41:52 PM PST by rdcbn ( Referentiai)
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To: Rashputin

That was then - the mother of Yeshua; this is now liberal insane redefining.


24 posted on 02/28/2020 2:45:43 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Trump20162020

Sounds like it might work for about 3/4 of a generation. Then... poof! All gone.


25 posted on 02/28/2020 2:46:29 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: stinkerpot65

YES they are.


26 posted on 02/28/2020 2:47:36 PM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: stinkerpot65

The saddest thing in the world is to see someone old and alone.

These fools are willingly seeking this outcome for themselves and others. Utter fools.


27 posted on 02/28/2020 2:51:21 PM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: Trump20162020

Just proving feminism was never abput equality at all.

Cmon guys we all knew it in our core.


28 posted on 02/28/2020 2:51:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Trump20162020

Sophie A. Lewis

Her Twitter page

29 posted on 02/28/2020 2:52:47 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Robert DeLong
Way ahead of you, Sophie.


30 posted on 02/28/2020 3:03:01 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yes you’re correct.

Its just the modern version of the Marxist free love idea.

Can you image that your family is the public school system. Do you think that any of your teachers really gave a dam about you or your future. Something like that is what she envisions replacing your loving family.

These people are sick.


31 posted on 02/28/2020 3:04:48 PM PST by desertfreedom765
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To: Lurker
REALLY. Why can't we just give them Hawaii. Let them have it. A one way ticket to "paradise". They can be there without us to "interfere" with their dreams of utopia. And when their utopia turns to crap, it's ALL on them. They will have no one to blame but their own disgusting selves. 🍿!
32 posted on 02/28/2020 3:05:18 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Trump20162020

Such a demented bunch of savages.


33 posted on 02/28/2020 3:05:25 PM PST by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: Lurker
REALLY. Why can't we just give them Hawaii. Let them have it. A one way ticket to "paradise". They can be there without us to "interfere" with their dreams of utopia. And when their utopia turns to crap, it's ALL on them. They will have no one to blame but their own disgusting selves. 🍿!
34 posted on 02/28/2020 3:06:48 PM PST by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: Lurker

You are not alone.


35 posted on 02/28/2020 3:12:19 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Jim Jones had a Marxist village. How’d that go?


36 posted on 02/28/2020 3:16:58 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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To: desertfreedom765

I think when I went to school, I had maybe two teachers in grade school I would say felt that way about me. In my high school, I would say four. Most didn’t, but it may have been because their classes were not really ones I would be focusing on for my degree and career.


37 posted on 02/28/2020 3:18:53 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Trump20162020

Elimination of the family unit is central to Communist ideology and a long time dream


38 posted on 02/28/2020 3:23:53 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Trump20162020

39 posted on 02/28/2020 3:26:21 PM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: Trump20162020

Vice started out interesting with McInnes

Turned into Young Turks sissies


40 posted on 02/28/2020 3:29:05 PM PST by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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