Feminist Scholar Argues Coronavirus Shows ‘It’s Time to Abolish the Family’
“The pandemic is no time to forget about family abolition.”
Are you starting to get the sense that some people are exploiting this crisis for ideological reasons?
Campus Reform reports:
Feminist says coronavirus shows ‘it’s time to abolish the family’
Sophie Lewis, a scholar at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a frequent speaker at American universities, wrote an article suggesting that the coronavirus pandemic should push Americans to abolish the family.
In an opinion editorial published by Open Democracy in late March, Lewis argues that “the private family qua mode of social reproduction still, frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalizes and races us. It norms us for productive work. It makes us believe we are ‘individuals’…”
“We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona is an excellent time to practice abolishing it,” she adds.
“As feminists for decades have excavated, the nuclear family functions as a kind of technology for producing and reproducing human beings along the lines of binary sex, national identity, racial loyalty, and heterosexual subjecthood,” Lewis told Campus Reform.
She goes on to say in the opinion piece that “social distancing” and “sheltering in place” orders are “an abuser’s dream,” pointing to the spike in domestic violence reports since the mass quarantine began. She suggested this is one more reason to “abolish” the family.
“The pandemic is no time to forget about family abolition. In the words of feminist theorist and mother Madeline Lane-McKinley; ‘Households are capitalism’s pressure cookers. This crisis will see a surge in housework – cleaning, cooking, caretaking, but also child abuse, molestation, intimate partner rape, psychological torture, and more.’ Far from a time to acquiesce to ‘family values’ ideology, then, the pandemic is an acutely important time to provision, evacuate and generally empower survivors of – and refugees from – the nuclear household,” she adds.
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I think this speaker would see the sun rising in the east as an indication that the family should be abolished.
“It makes us believe we are ‘individuals’…”
This is what really bugs xer. It’s got nothing to do with feminism. It’s all about the revolution and making people into faceless, mindless members of the collective.
Communism masquerading as feminism masquerading as caring.
Let’s not do that.
yeah – that line stood out to me also.
Maybe just abolish you instead, Professor Idiot.
It norms us for productive work.
Ummmm, so feminists don’t want productive work done?
This explains SO much……..
These are very sick people, and demonstrate the ill health of our current society by their very presence.
The family’s not going anywhere (or, at least, nowhere America’s wretched family court system will allow it to go). The New World Order open borders advocates may be in for some heavy wading, though.
one sick puppy
would disagree with the ” Scholar ” part of headline
Does one get to self declare as a “scholar”? Because there is certainly nothing scholarly about her diatribe. Unhinged lunatic and deeply unhappy person would be more accurate descriptors.
What exactly is the “Brooklyn Institute for Social Research”? Sounds like a real fun place to work…
Why not? Shameless veep wannabe stacy abrams declared herself a 25 year student of “independent study of foreign policy”. Don’t question it or you are a misogynistic racist…double whammy.
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. Sounds like some BS private business set up by some “Columbia Ph.D. candidates”. Note that word “candidates”; not actual PhDs.
From her bio:
“Her work focuses on eugenic, bioconservative and imperial feminism, queer and trans social reproduction, Black feminist family abolitionism, hydrofeminism, postgenomics, and Marxist-feminist accounts of care.”
She needs to get herself a floozelfnagel.
See? I can make up words, too. 😉
I have no idea what “hydrofeminism” and “Marxist-feminist accounts of care” are. “Marxist-feminist” seems redundant though.
hydrofeminism is synonymous with being bat shat pseudoscience crazy…see link (but you might be sorry you did)
http://alicemaher.com/essays/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-mermaid
I had to stop after the first paragraph. I felt my intelligence being sucked away into the void.
From the essay you linked:
“Biological hybridity is messy because it allows for bacterial accident, confusion and copulation with other fluid-bound beings.”
So she has the hots for the neighbor’s German shepherd? I’d rather not try to think of how someone might be this way.
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Does’t hydrofeminism mean raising the consciousness of naiads, nereids, and suchlike?
The family has pretty much been abolished in much of the black community for several generations. How has that worked out?
Not “abolished”, per se. That would mean it’s illegal to remain a cohesive family unit.
However, it is discouraged to the point that the government actually (and sometimes actively) incentivizes one parent — usually the mother — separating from the other parent.
But it’s hard to deny that in those high-cost-of-living Democrat enclaves, it’s socially and financially harder to stay together than it is to separate.
Abolished is the proper word. Try it in a sentence:
The government abolished the black family.
This “women” proves that universities need to be closed down and cleared of all the mentally ill people, the worthless departments and classes. She should be fired first.
Fat, miserable narcissistic women, who want company in their misery.
Shun them.
WTF is “intimate partner rape?”
If she is referring to me boning my wife, then my comment to xer is, stay the fk out of my bedroom. I don’t touch your nasty snatch, Sophie Lewis, so don’t worry about what I do.
Intimate partner rape means raping your wife, which I certainly hope you don’t do. It’s a problem. There are people who think they’re entitled to do that. Even Michael Cohen once made an idiot of himself by claiming that. But this does not justify what this idiot is saying.