Why do you so completely discount the power of emotional attachment? How many stories of authority figures sexually abusing kids who then keep quiet to protect their abuser do you need?
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @Nymphomachy and
The majority of such situations do, in fact, involve parents
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
You seem to be saying multiple things One of them is that no matter what system you create a child will develop a parent-like bond with exactly one authority figure so reform is fruitless (Or two, I guess, everyone needs a mommy and a daddy right)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
And, whatever Maybe that's true, but so what The next part is you saying that anyone who seeks out such a relationship should not be trusted Okay, I'm fine with that heuristic too WHY ARE YOU EXEMPTING PARENTS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I'm not exempting parents, I'm just not going to support a complete reformation of society that doesn't really solve the problems you suppose it does but is guaranteed to destroy the good that I know and love in my family and so many others.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @Nymphomachy and
The anti-nuclear family distributed-responsibility take isn't even that radical a take In the olden days the institution that stood in the place of parents was the extended family
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
That was far, far, far from perfect, and as an institution the extended family was still shitty in myriad ways - patriarchal, hierarchical, self-interested But not investing all authority and responsibility in two people was still pretty clearly preferable
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It tended towards autocratic patriarchy by whatever male was considered the "head of the household". It was no better.
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Replying to @spqtemple02 @Nymphomachy and
Lol like a nuclear family isn't just a smaller version of that? Like the *selling point* of the 1950s nuclear family wasn't that every single shitty middle class dude could be the "master of his castle"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
You claimed it was better when it wasn't. That's it.
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There were many ways in which it wasn't better and many ways in which it was In terms of patriarchy it's a wash - every shitty low-rent dude getting to play paterfamilias wasn't a blow for equality, though it may have paved the way for such
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
(Paving the way because those dudes FAILED to "keep their families together" and ended up being out of their kids' lives entirely, which was also a mixed bag but probably a net gain Single motherhood as our society practices abd supports it sucks though)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @spqtemple02 and
If not full on family abolition then we might like at the abolition of fatherhood, specifically "Fatherhood" conceived by a gendered society as the parent who doesn't raise the kids but paid to have them raised and therefore still has the attendant rights and privileges
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