Mastodawn

I cannot tell if this is satire.

First they came for the millionaires and distributed their wealth equally and I said nothing because I wasn’t a millionaire.
Then they came for the abled bodies and made public spaces as inclusive as possible and I said nothing because I didn’t notice.
Then they came for cis men and abolished the nuclear family and I said nothing because I’m not married so I didn’t care.
And when they smashed white supremacy, there was no one left to defend me.

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scarabic 2d ago

Is “abolishing the nuclear family” actually in the program here? WTF

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wheezy 2d ago

Do you think that this means “no one can have a family that is two cis gendered people of the opposite sex raising children!”

Or do you think its talking about the structures of society that force people into these gender roles and family structures to begin with?

Answer. It’s the later one. Abolishing these structures, the incentives of and the dependencies they create, is part of abolishing patriarchy.

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scarabic 2d ago

I don’t know what the fuck it means. I’m glad at least one of us seems to perfectly understand it as something benevolent, but it’s a pretty poor way to say it.

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moonshadow 2d ago

It’s a ‘classic’ red team conspiracy theory, long lasting cause it’s kiiiinda true. Just that it’s corpos atomizing us across the board because more households buy more stuff and not the liberals/gays/commies doing it because satan told them to in a weed trance

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scarabic 2d ago

uh wut

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Doc_Crankenstein 2d ago

You should really look into the history of how the “nuclear family” was pushed by capitalist media of the 50s and 60s in an effort to normalize the suburban lifestyle in order to have a more exploitable populace and how that affected the breakdown of local community and intergenerational support structures.

The shift was heavily facilitated by the “white flight” phenomenon of the era as well and plays a role in institutionalized racism.

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scarabic

Trust me as an LGBT dude who came of age in the 90s, I’ve watched the whole conservative panic about “defend the family” for a long time. And of course women for centuries have been told they are a failure if they don’t marry and reproduce. The only miscommunication here is that the term “nuclear family” on its own does not communicate all those bad things. The term has a simple and objective definition so when people talk about it as the antichrist, with no qualification, that is confusing to me.