Wednesday, December 16, 2020

These crazy times …

PRODUCTS OF GESTATIONAL LABOR. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
 “We know that the nuclear private household is where the overwhelming majority of abuse can happen. And then there’s the whole question of what it is for: training us up to be workers, training us to be inhabitants of a binary-gendered and racially stratified system, training us not to be queer,” says Sophie Lewis. For her among the most important steps is to “denaturalize the mother-child bond… the idea that babies belong to anyone — the idea that the product of gestational labor gets transferred as property to a set of people.” Children — excuse me, the “products of labor” —  being attached to the women who gave birth to them and being raised by them along with their fathers? Whoever thought of such a ridiculous idea. 

Further proof of Orwell's observation that  "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them."

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