do u have any recommendations for where i can learn about this “disintegration of the couple form”? because it sounds fascinating.
i mean it's more a logical corollary to family abolition than anything else—the cluster of behaviours by which we identify the normative couple form (monogamy, then to varying degrees: intent towards marriage, intent towards cohabitation/split incomes/financial interdependence, cisheterosexuality, and so on) are highly contingent properties which are imbued with significance only by the social apparatus which organises and sustains the family. it’s impossible to meaningfully talk about “marriage,” for example, as a practice independent of the social + legal conditions by which it comes into being; it provides crucial legal apparatus for the nuclear family unit and serves as a cudgel for coercion in maintaining it via its various mechanisms of entrapment, and ideologically reifies this notion of a sole lifelong partner with whom you raise a child or children and thus stabilise the distribution of your property and assets/fortify the white race/etc. aspiration towards marriage, even between couples which may not wholly fit the “normative” bill, arises from the significance ascribed to it via its position in the ideology of the family. if the family is gone, it stops being useful. even monogamous couples who are at a distance from the conventional marriage-kids-whatever continuum only have a framework by which they can meaningfully think of themselves as 'monogamous' and behave as such because of the ideological logics thrown behind sex, romance, and relationships in the first place.
that, obviously, doesn’t mean that nobody will ever be in what we currently term a ‘monogamous relationship,’ but that the centrality of the monogamous relationship in the cultural zeitgeist around sex + romance will be done away with. like, it simply stops being a useful or coherent concept at the point of family abolition. this is true of whatever language we use to talk about sexual relations—gay, lesbian, queer, bisexual, butch, femme, to name a few, are all terms which have meaning in our discourse only due to the contingent conditions which give rise to them. when the material conditions change, the language we use to ascribe meaning changes with them.
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2day’s newest fgo reddit nonsense is someone thinking ritsuka being surprised and asking if they get bothered by people because she and kama are be publically dating in school is inaccurate bc, and I’m not making this up ‘they make a lot of gay anime and manga in Japan so why would they get harassed by anyone’
never mind the fact that same sex marriage is still illegal in Japan, or the fact that lesbian relationships in Japanese highschools are only tolerated under the assumption that girls will grow up out of them into mature, ‘proper’ heterosexual relationships to the point Japanese gay media literally addresses this topic- but don’t worry they have gay media so definitely they’re more accepting than america!
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Hi, xenophobe
Take your drama-thirsty, imperialist-musical-loving ass back to TikTok, there's literally no reason for us to be speaking.
1. I am a blog with 93 followers, literally nothing I say matters in general.
2. You don't know me or follow me. Nothing I say or think matters to you.
3. From the DM you sent me, that I replied to when you sent it to me, you're reacting to something a Chinese person said to me, because they assumed I was white while discussing China and Taiwan.
4. I am literally a 2nd generation Taiwanese immigrant. This is not hard information to know about me. It's all over my blog. My title mentions that I'm mixed race.
If you actually cared about xenophobia you wouldn't be harassing a random guy from an immigrant family who was literally talking about the country his family immigrated from and got called xenophobic for putting something about Taiwan on a post about current events in China. This is clearly an issue that you know nothing about and frankly I'm offended you're pretending to care about it.
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I find it kinda funny when i open up a comment section and theres a circle jerk happening to hate on California.
Its so funny to me. Its really transparent. I dont hate your state at all bro, i dont think about it, i dont live there. If you think this much about california in your free time bud, i think you got a lil crush on her
Now kiss and makeup. Say youre jealous instead. We can all read between the lines.
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I need people to stop glorifying the 4B movement in Korea, from a Western (white) perspective. Stop it.
If you are blissfully unaware of this (having not been on TikTok) - in theory, it makes sense.
No sex with men, no dating men, no child rearing with men, and no marriage with men.
But. BUT.
Feminists in Korea are problematic AF. I know this from both personal experience (having been on the receiving end of their ire online) and everything I've read about them, in Korean.
I see all these white TikTokers (and even some in the Korean diaspora) fawning over how "we" in the US need this and, no.
If your feminism is transphobic, hates gay men, hates men in general, that's not the feminism I'd endorse.
Why is Korean feminism transphobic? In 2020, Korean feminists ACTIVELY CAMPAIGNED AGAINST a woman who was accepted to Sookmyung University. An all womens' university.
But she was a woman, you say. What could be their problem?
According to Korean feminists, they didn't want a "man" in their space.
Because she is a trans woman.
This is not unusual for Korean feminists.
Having lived there for 5 years, to some extent, I understand their anger against misogyny. But if you are truly against the toxic patriarchy that exists in Korea, you must also help dismantle military conscription because that is where a lot of men become radicalized, bullied, etc etc and "grow up" to be the most toxic form of men seen on this earth.
But Korean feminists don't give AF about that and in fact, I've read a lot of them express that it's good for men to suffer.
Guess what? That view is internalized misogyny and toxic patriarchy, too.
And I don't want to hear it about the movement being so "young". Korean women have stepped up to the plate before in our history. We are capable of better than this fucking nonsense. It's a bunch of transphobic, gay hating radicals that have hijacked what was supposed to be about social justice.
WOMAD (link is to the Wikipedia article, not their site) and Megalia are the two sites they stem from. It is the most toxic group of people I've ever had the displeasure to encounter online. Any form of criticism is, at best, ignored and worst - I've been "called out" for being Korean-American, and therefore, to "butt out" of "Korean issues". Amongst other bullying I've personally received. And yes, not just on forums but on public articles that I've commented on.
I know it's a catchy title and it appeals in theory but please, please do not glorify these transphobes and TERFs. They don't deserve your attention.
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