Traditional Marriage Promotes 'White Supremacy'

She’s partially correct. Or was, until gay marriage was legalized. Gays were denied all the rights and privileges that go along with marriage. And many on the right, if not most, would still deny them that privilege

The race thing? Nope.
 
domer76 said:
She’s partially correct. Or was, until gay marriage was legalized. Gays were denied all the rights and privileges that go along with marriage. And many on the right, if not most, would still deny them that privilege

The race thing? Nope.
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Let me ask me you this (and this is not a gotcha question or asking you to speak on behalf of liberals - just curious your opinion). This is the professor's report the article is referring to. What are your thoughts when reading it? Does it resonate? Make you roll your eyes?

(We have good family friend's whose daughter is in a PhD program studying this type of stuff. I get along with her great. She identifies as She/They and she talks like this professor. I love talking to her, even when I can't understand her and think to myself what in the absolute fvck is she saying, because it's eye opening and rhetoric you generally don't hear in our normal everyday activity.)



Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality


Abstract

In this article, I draw upon critical feminist and intersectional frameworks to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages White heteropatriarchal nuclear families (WHNFs) and marginalizes others as a function of family structure and relationship status. Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy. Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family. But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States. Through several examples, I demonstrate how—since colonization—marriage fundamentalism has been instantiated through laws, policies, and practices to unduly advantage WHNFs while simultaneously marginalizing Black, Indigenous, immigrant, mother-headed, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) families, among others. I conclude with a call for family scientists to further interrogate how marriage fundamentalism reproduces family inequality in American family life and to work toward its dismantling. A deeper understanding of how these complex and often covert mechanisms of structural oppression operate in family life is needed to disrupt these mechanisms and advance family equality and justice.


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971
 
cawacko said:
Let me ask me you this (and this is not a gotcha question or asking you to speak on behalf of liberals - just curious your opinion). This is the professor's report the article is referring to. What are your thoughts when reading it? Does it resonate? Make you roll your eyes?

(We have good family friend's whose daughter is in a PhD program studying this type of stuff. I get along with her great. She identifies as She/They and she talks like this professor. I love talking to her, even when I can't understand her and think to myself what in the absolute fvck is she saying, because it's eye opening and rhetoric you generally don't hear in our normal everyday activity.)



Theorizing White heteropatriarchal supremacy, marriage fundamentalism, and the mechanisms that maintain family inequality


Abstract

In this article, I draw upon critical feminist and intersectional frameworks to delineate an overarching orientation to structural oppression and unequal power relations that advantages White heteropatriarchal nuclear families (WHNFs) and marginalizes others as a function of family structure and relationship status. Specifically, I theorize that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy. Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family. But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States. Through several examples, I demonstrate how—since colonization—marriage fundamentalism has been instantiated through laws, policies, and practices to unduly advantage WHNFs while simultaneously marginalizing Black, Indigenous, immigrant, mother-headed, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) families, among others. I conclude with a call for family scientists to further interrogate how marriage fundamentalism reproduces family inequality in American family life and to work toward its dismantling. A deeper understanding of how these complex and often covert mechanisms of structural oppression operate in family life is needed to disrupt these mechanisms and advance family equality and justice.


https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jomf.12971
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I notice that she is a hetero female in a non-marriage situation raising kids with a partner. That’s her choice. Then, she complains how not being married deprives her of certain privileges that comes with marriage. I have no use for that kind of attitude. Her choice. Deal with the consequences.

There is no doubt in my mind that a two parent family, if it is a healthy one, is the best for raising children. And, even if the parents are of the same sex, that works for me if (again) it’s a healthy one. But, in the real world, a healthy, two parent household is frequently not possible.

Other than old laws preventing biracial or gay marriage are now illegal, I think she is full of shit on her take on the bias of the institution itself. In fact, I don’t have a clue as to what she means as marriage “fundamentalism”. My guess is she referring to the classical “Dad works, Mom stays at home” scenario, which, of course, is an outdated concept.
 
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