It’s so fucking gross to see a radical Christianist take an idea that’s fundamentally good - a loving spouse, a home of one’s own, a future generation to inherit your good works and your hopes for a better world - and turn it into this degraded consumerist commodity.
Who wouldn’t want to tear up a system that corrupts an idealized existence into a layer of hell, because he can’t stand the idea of his partner enjoying any amount of autonomy?
How does he turn marriage into a commodity? It’s not like he’s running a tradwife store where you can just pick docile, fully trained housewife off the shelf, is he?
All he’s saying is that marriage and having children can provide the sort of structure and meaning in life that many people seem to be lacking these days.
It’s not like he’s running a tradwife store where you can just pick docile, fully trained housewife off the shelf, is he?
Not personally. But that’s the model he’s championing. Covenant Marriages, claw-back of parental rights, restrictions on travel, a reversion to the pre-1970s laws on restrictions against women owning property or accessing credit, repealing the 19th amendment, lowering the legal age of marriage, establishing fucking dowries for the woman’s family paid out by the prospective husband… At the end of the day, this might be more comparable to Women as Real Estate than Women as Grocery Store Shelf Items. But it’s absolutely commoditization of an entire gender of people.
All he’s saying is that marriage and having children can provide the sort of structure and meaning in life
But it’s absolutely commoditization of an entire gender of people.
Did you miss the word “usually” in there? He’s not even claiming that ALL women need to get married and have children in order to achieve a sense of purpose or fulfillment in life.
It’s so fucking gross to see a radical Christianist take an idea that’s fundamentally good - a loving spouse, a home of one’s own, a future generation to inherit your good works and your hopes for a better world - and turn it into this degraded consumerist commodity.
Who wouldn’t want to tear up a system that corrupts an idealized existence into a layer of hell, because he can’t stand the idea of his partner enjoying any amount of autonomy?
How does he turn marriage into a commodity? It’s not like he’s running a tradwife store where you can just pick docile, fully trained housewife off the shelf, is he?
All he’s saying is that marriage and having children can provide the sort of structure and meaning in life that many people seem to be lacking these days.
Not personally. But that’s the model he’s championing. Covenant Marriages, claw-back of parental rights, restrictions on travel, a reversion to the pre-1970s laws on restrictions against women owning property or accessing credit, repealing the 19th amendment, lowering the legal age of marriage, establishing fucking dowries for the woman’s family paid out by the prospective husband… At the end of the day, this might be more comparable to Women as Real Estate than Women as Grocery Store Shelf Items. But it’s absolutely commoditization of an entire gender of people.
That’s not what he’s saying at all.
Did you miss the word “usually” in there? He’s not even claiming that ALL women need to get married and have children in order to achieve a sense of purpose or fulfillment in life.
To be fair though, the same is also true for men.