Why are they always so ugly?
And if you knew you were going to be photographed and that photo was going to be published, wouldn't you at least wash your hair?
Posted on 04/11/2020 9:54:09 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Amid lockdowns and “shelter-in-place” orders and social distancing from strangers and even friends, the coronavirus pandemic has been a time, for many of us, of reaffirming the centrality of family in our lives. For utopians of the radical left, though, the pandemic is an opportunity to deconstruct flawed, traditional familial bonds and remake the world along the lines of new-and-improved, collectivist possibilities. As author Sophie Lewis (pictured above) puts it bluntly in a recent opinion piece at Open Democracy: “We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona is an excellent time to practice abolishing it.”
The author of Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family, Sophie Lewis’ academic work “focuses on eugenic, bioconservative and imperial feminism, queer and trans social reproduction, Black feminist family abolitionism, hydrofeminism, postgenomics, and Marxist-feminist accounts of care,” which seems like a lot to fit on a business card.
Writing in her article titled, “The coronavirus crisis shows it's time to abolish the family,” Lewis addresses what she calls “the unspoken and mostly unquestioned crux of the prescribed response to the pandemic: private homes.” She criticizes the assumption that we should all “stay at home” to contain the spread of the virus, arguing that 1) not everybody has a home, and 2) private property is already a “fundamentally unsafe space.”
“How can a zone defined by the power asymmetries of housework (reproductive labor being so gendered), of renting and mortgage debt, land and deed ownership, of patriarchal parenting and (often) the institution of marriage, benefit health?” she asks. “Such standard homes are where, after all, everyone secretly knows the majority of earthly violence goes down… A quarantine is, in effect, an abuser’s dream – a situation that hands near-infinite power to those with the upper hand over a home.”
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Why are they always so ugly?
And if you knew you were going to be photographed and that photo was going to be published, wouldn't you at least wash your hair?
Because she was probably too busy making sure a copy
of her book was in the picture.
Just another liberal psychopath to be laughed at, mocked, ridiculed and ignored.
Abolish the family? Can we abolish her and her kind? Why should we have to put up with her and her ilk? She obviously doesn't want to put up with us!
They live in a sick world.
Nothing like a little social stress to bring the crackpots out in the thousands. They’d make a jolly “collective” until they killed one another.
I think in times such as these that most families grow closer together. Mine has even as we see less of one another out of concern for our elderly family members.
She has that ugly that goes right to the bone.
it’s an ugly soul.
This has brought families together
Families are spending quality time with each other, eating diner at home, learning about each other.
Parents are teaching their kids instead of government bureaucrats.
Kids are actually learning something at home.
Abolish the family? What crackpot thought of that?
Leftards are getting desperate, they are losing control on society.
New-and-improved, collectivist possibilities
China
Cuba
Russia
France
Spain
Kids are home in case she didn’t notice.
“hydrofeminism”
I don’t want to know.
Wow! She’s like Flubra to the infinite power.
The family is being destroyed!!! Private property is an unsafe place!!!
Yikes!
Hydrofeminism: it’s all wet
The future is a dystopian novel where no on except college professors can talk to each other.
Women who get married,have families, and raise healthy children are letting feminism down.
They are unleashing something the likes they never thought could happen to them. It is 1788 France like!
Ah yes.
Eugenics.
Gradually leftism returns to its roots.
HaHa
I wonder how many guys are realizing their wife can’t cook mac and cheese without nearly burning the house down
Or how many wives are realizing their husbands are totally worthless at doing anything useful around the house since they can’t afford the lawn crew guys/handymen anymore?
I wonder if we will see a spike in divorces after this is over?
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