We should be able to discuss more modern forms of slavery without having it be "normalization".
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En réponse à @ManishEarth @sarahjeong
Agreed. But equating Lola to an abused third wife is minimizing slavery. The real wife, an MD BTW, divorced. Lola never had the option.
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En réponse à @Rednuria @sarahjeong
In many Asian societies divorce is not an option either.
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You get shunned by your own family and society if you divorce. Plenty of abused women go through this.
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This is not the same as chattel slavery. It is pretty close.
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I don't think the point was to minimize slavery, it was to point at familial servitude and say "hey, this is almost as bad"
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En réponse à @ManishEarth @Rednuria
The bio-mom got to live a modern life, and Lola lived one that is very close to marriages that many immigrants know of and are close to
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Particularly one that of incredible enabled by the harshness of the immigration laws that we live under
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*incredible abuse
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While gathering my thoughts I thought of many things: the abuse of underpaid US au pairs who come from abroad on state department visas
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Undocumented wives who are systematically cut off from society (no car, no money) and threatened with deportation to keep them in place
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And the historical institution of wives as property of husbands.
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