what's amazing about "forced monogamy" is that it's so easy to read it as awful but so much less awful than it actually is. if you read "deterrence-grade penalties for multiple partners and cheating" you're only reading a fraction of the story
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what is being longed for isn't the days of marital fidelity, it's the days when women had to pair up with a man to survive. so yeah The Handmaid's Tale is a documentary that accidentally got lost backward in time, enjoy your weekend
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also "social convention favoring stable pair bonding" means that society exerts itself moderately to vigorously to make sure that if you aren't in a stable pair bond you die in a gutter, hope this helps
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