Posted on 02/28/2020 2:07:02 PM PST by Trump20162020
A little more than two weeks before I planned to meet the feminist theorist Sophie Lewis, her mother died. She had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in March, requiring Lewis to travel back and forth between her home in Philadelphia and a hospital in the UK—a journey she technically wasn’t allowed to make due to the pending status of her green card. When her mother passed away in late November, she did so thousands of miles away, while Lewis and her brother sang the Taylor Swift song “Safe and Sound” to her over Skype.
Earlier that month, at a lecture in Lower Manhattan hosted by the arts journal e-flux, Lewis, who is 31, reflected on what some might see as an obvious irony to her crisscrossing the ocean to care for her ailing mother: Verso Books had just published her first book, Full Surrogacy Now, a polemic that calls for abolishing the family.
And so we can also make them different, Lewis argues. She imagines a future where the labor of making new human beings is shared among all of us, “mother” no longer being a natural category, but instead something we can choose.
Even those of us who might call our family situations relatively “happy” should sign onto this project of demolishing their essential structure, Lewis says. Nuclear households create the infrastructure for capitalism, passing wealth and property down family trees, concentrating it in the hands of the few at the top of our class hierarchy. Maintaining the traditional family structure over time has also meant exploiting people of color and disowning queer children.
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“Lewis to travel back and forth between her home in Philadelphia and a hospital in the UK.”
Notice how she flies and lives in big cities on big airplanes with big airports built by middle-class capitalists. She foolishly “bites the hand that feeds” her.
“Nuclear households create the infrastructure for capitalism.”
She is correct. She reminds me of Karl Marx who worshipped satan and encouraged two of his kids to commit suicide. He smelled horribly like Hilly Clinton and his office was a foul mess. He stole ideas from Engels and make one major mistake: he ignored the middle class. There is only rich and poor in Marx’s stupid theories.
Fact: Traditional families bring about a strong middle class and wonderful companies: Mr. and Mrs. Dutton (Target) and Henry Sherwin (Sherwin paint).
Losers without self esteem like Marx promote anti-Christian, anti-capitalist, anti-intellectual garbage that is repulsive and not interesting to young people.
A sad and sick woman - poisoned
No, too much trash in the ocean and on the islands already
People like this feminist are the ones who are driving the bus of the democrat party. The “moderate” democrats are the ones who only care about the “kitchen table” issues which means that the government should give them food, shelter and medical care. They sell out their souls for a mess of porridge as they will go along with all of the extremist policies of the democrats as long as they are taken care of by the politicians. The dem politicians know the minds of their “moderate” voters. They know that when push comes to shove they will look the other way and accept abortion, same sex marriage, transsexualism or even letting children be subjected to attacks on their very bodies and sexual identity and the “moderates” will accept the devilish excuses that the ever clever democrats will always make up to normalize the devils work.
‘The saddest thing in the world is to see someone old and alone.’
generally, I agree...and I would never advocate against a family structure; but there are instances in which solitude is the highest ideal...
‘Just proving feminism was never abput equality at all.’
true, it never was; abortion proves it was about establishing the divinity of females...
She must have read too many of Heinleins later works. When he went crazy after Stranger in a Strange Land.
Way to dance on your mom’s grave Sophie.
Oh, this poor lost soul. God help her—and us, from people like her.
Still odd which people have something in common when they want to defend the indefensible.
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