One thing I fucking despise about Harry Potter is the smarmy way it tries to have a mea culpa about its exaltation of blood family by depicting a virtual chosen family in the Weasleys As if Molly or anybody would have given a rat's ass if Harry wasn't a wealthy beloved celebrityhttps://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/1337255049722916864 …
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Actually I'll bring back this thread because
@celestineofall's wonderful fic actually does address these issues a little The idea that, ultimately, your security as an adoptee into a family is only as good as your ability to avoid undermining any of the blood-related membershttps://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1312645090280648704 …Vapor Weyve added,
Vapor Weyve @NymphomachyI want to talk about this for a second because a connection popped into my mind and I want to articulate it before I forget about it There's this SNL short with Emma Stone called "The Actress" that I often I think about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HVH_I04ZrM … https://twitter.com/Nymphomachy/status/1311763310321250309 …Show this thread3 replies 0 retweets 54 likesShow this thread -
People related by blood are permitted to work at cross purposes in ways that people in chosen families simply are not The moment Huxley starts bringing less to the table than the trouble he's worth, he can be rehomed
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If family's not egalitarian than it's no kind of family at all Hell, look at how in polyam communities "unicorn hunter" came to be a four-letter word Because it connotes a committed couple looking for a hot cisbi chick they can consign to a permanent role of subordination
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Yeah lotta discourse in the poly community about "primary" vs "secondary" relationships and the places that takes you
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It's like the irony of how the federal government's extreme hostility to polygamy can, in fact, make patriarchal polygyny as practiced by FLDS *worse* There's one real wife with a real marriage certificate with rights in the event of a divorce Everyone else has nothing
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When the other wives make a financial contribution to the household it just goes into the primary couple's bank account and they have no legal guarantees in return, it's a gift And if someone tries to make a stink over that they could all get arrested
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That's why it's generally easier for the junior sister-wives not to work outside the home This becomes an issue on HBO's Big Love, for instance
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