It's a pretty straightforward take—parents have absolute power over their children and having absolute power over another human being is a priori oppressive. It's not even hot unless you think this would be the ideal model of existence even if there could be any other way.
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The question Arthur - and I can't believe I've finally been baited into this discourse on my MAC AND CHEESE TWEET - is how a state run creche removes the power dynamic of guardian over child in the first place. It doesn't! You're just granting that authority to a different body.
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Also this, yes. I don't know how you raise children without invoking authority over them. They can't do whatever they want. They'll get hurt or hurt someone else. And they do have to learn um...kind of everything, somehow?
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I wasn't trying to tell you to give up. It's just going to be hellishly difficult to get humans not to human about something as we connect to as deeply as family. That idea is asking cishet women not to raise the children they birthed, for one. It's a hell of an ask.
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Circling back, I don't think comparing sex and family is this context is quite right. Sex, romance, relationships...a person isn't normally born having those. But everyone has a parental figure, if not an actual parent. Lots of folks have siblings and other family.
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It's a sense of belonging, hitting us right in the tribal instincts. These are my people, where I am safe and loved. That's not something you want to get rid of. Although I don't think infant creches as described would do that. They'd just bond with each other instead.
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