[lbo-talk] Children and socialism

Ted Winslow egwinslow at rogers.com
Thu Dec 11 18:37:17 PST 2003


Ken Campbell wrote:


> Sticking a penis into a vagina and yelling "I LOVE YOU" when you shoot
> is not the same as caring for children.
>
> Love for children is unconditional. But it is not some genetic thing.
> Only attached to the "penis sticking."
>
> We need social responsibility tools to help children through this
> transition period -- when marriage and its re-arrangement that our
> society is going through is making their lives more difficult.
>
> I wish more females would talk about that. And in a way that doesn't
> threaten males by making them seem like bad fathers...

I don't think the way we care for our children can be separated from the way we fuck. Individuals who do the latter with their eyes wide shut usually do the former in the same way. This is true of both men and women.

It's possible to imagine changes in marriage laws and in the arrangements for administering them that would mitigate the bad effect of bad marriages on kids. The same fantasies that underpin bad marriages, however, also significantly influence these laws and arrangements.

Ted



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