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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Replying to @spqtemple02 @Nymphomachy and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Not everybody has absent or inattentive fathers. You keep using worst case generalizations to formulate your arguments.
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Lol fathers not pulling their weight isn't a worst case scenario it's completely normal
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