Because marriage, for most of human history, has been a gross violation of human rights—economic and bodily exploitation; coercion.
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For someone, somewhere down the line, our existence—our familial tie—is the basis and rationale for their grief
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We are poison to our own mothers.
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Does Tizon quite get there? Not really, kind of, maybe. But I got there after reading. That's why his article will linger with me.
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The coda to this is that I am no longer convinced that Tizon didn't realize Lola was his mother. I thought so this morning.
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I changed my mind because I found out that "Lola" means grandmother, and he doesn't say so in the article.
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He makes what I think is a purposeful omission. It's possible he knew and wanted readers to get there themselves.
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My bad, I'm being corrected-- Lola is an honorific and it's hard to translatehttps://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/864710846219337728 …
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Final note, I am not erasing her status as a slave by calling her a wife, I am calling marriages (some today, all historically) enslavement.
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Yes. I felt that over and over again reading it. Horror and that the dynamic is in all of us and all our families. We are tainted. Dirty.
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Fact. Go back far enough (and likely not very far,) we all descend from both slave-owners and enslaved. We all descend from rapes.We r human
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