Mar 11, 2014
It took me years of introspection and writing on my old blog to intuit a sort-of philosophy that I was comfortable with. As it turns out it was (of course!) already a thing. Anarcha-Feminism. Humbled, and excited to read more.
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It took me years of introspection and writing on my old blog to intuit a sort-of philosophy that I was comfortable with. As it turns out it was (of course!) already a thing. Anarcha-Feminism. Humbled, and excited to read more.
Cultural Nihilist Befuddled By Anti-Same Sex Marriage Argument Based in "Reason"
One day as I turned to climb the stairs I saw my sixteen-year-old son walk past his mom as she sat reading in the living room. As he did, he paused and stooped down to kiss her and give her a hug, and then continued on. With two dads in the house, this little moment of warmth and tenderness would never have occurred. [...] [...] Moms and dads interact differently with their children. To give kids two moms or two dads is to withhold from them someone whom they desperately need and deserve in order to be whole and happy. It is to permanently etch “deprivation” on their hearts. [Doug Mainwaring, I'm Gay and I Oppose Same-Sex Marriage]
This is soooo terrible and sad. Pssst, buddy, it's totally ok for fathers to treat their sons tenderly! Funnily enough, just the other night my soon-to-be sixteen-year-old son walked past me as I sat working at my desk, and he paused to give me a hug and a kiss on the head, and then continued on. (Plot twist: I'm a dude!) Love is a learned behavior. You learn it from the person you love, and who loves you back. How, exactly is this procedure tied to gender? (Hint: it's not.) Mainwaring's concern seems to be centered on ideas of traditional/acceptable displays of affection based on, quite frankly hackneyed, gender roles. The argument that a young person can't learn about love without exactly one female and one male parental unit, is plainly absurd. Understanding as Mainwaing does that, "Sexuality is fluid ... and much more complex than many want to acknowledge," how hard it it to get that gender is equally fluid? To use myself as an example again, I've often felt, from the instant I first looked into my newborn son's eyes, what can be best described in the parlance of our times as a maternal instinct. Go figure. Why does society say I should deny that particular "feminine" drive the force of my power? As for the charge of "deprivation"... Well, rigidly enforcing some totalitarian regime of gender appropriate demonstrations of affection, this capitulation to tradition -- to norms, is a much more evil form of deprivation. It is to deprive the young person of self-discovery and free expression. For goodness sake, just let people experience and express love in their own way! It really is that simple. [Against the state, therefore against all forms of civil marriage. Pro The Homosexual Agenda in its subversion of culture, therefore in favor of same sex couples winning whatever concessions they can get from the state to make their lives easier.]
Cops with batons may break my bones, but laws will never rule me.