The social construct of nuclear family is a comparatively recent phenomena in cultural terms, and throughout the ages humans have had many different social constructs.
The idea that a man and woman bind together in a single insular economic unit excluding all other possibilities has certainly become a societal norm in much of Europe and the US, but this was not always so.
I come to wonder if the constructs of Monogamous marriage have become a mechanism by which people have become more isolated from one another, confining their intimacies, and defining their interests in a very narrow family unit in a hostile and competitive marketplace. "You and me against the world",
Are the typical gender roles we have come to adopt imposed on us to make us more compliant to the demands of Big Business?
In short, is the repression of sexuality a tool that is being used to force us into economic slavery?
2007-11-27
04:47:32
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