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[–] 229 points 3 months ago (21 children)

Once marriage is viewed as an equal partnership there is no structurally distinct role for men and women.

Therefore a man could just as easily fill the wife role and a woman the husband role. So why limit marriage to man and woman? Man and man or woman and woman is equally valid structurally

If men and women are interchangeable and replaceable what function does gender have in a society?

Who's to say anyone can't be any gender they want to be?

This is the roadmap to societal destruction that monogamy-only causes

We were so close!

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (19 children)

    Therefore a man could just as easily fill the wife role and a woman the husband role.

    One of my wife's only regrets in our marriage is that she doesn't make enough to allow me to be a full time house husband. I guarantee I'm traditionally more masculine than all of these chuds. I would also love nothing more than to keep the house clean, cook, keep up the garden, finish remodeling the house, and pamper my beautiful wife. I unfortunately am just the main breadwinner, and we wouldn't be very comfortable without my salary.

    I just never got how some dudes are just so fixated on their jobs being their entire identity, going as far as to base their masculinity on having a 9-5.

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago (17 children)

    I dated a girl in uni and she asked what my career goals were, and I said House Husband. She ended the relationship claiming I had no ambition.

    Fast forward to now, I have a career, but also I work from home so I do all the cooking, laundry cycles, some decorating, while also wokring on car engine rebuilds on the weekend. My wife handles the finances, and shouting at crackheads or assholes when they are causing trouble in the neighbourhood.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (15 children)

    You're living my dream and I seethe with jealousy. I should have picked a career where I could work from home. Unfortunately I work in healthcare, so I didn't even get to temporarily live the dream when everyone else was staying home during COVID.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    Dude that sucks.

    My WFH has been for about 15 years. I used to work in an enginerring office and quit to move across country, they told me to lug my PC with me and work remotely. WTH this was an option the whole time??

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  • [–] 89 points 3 months ago (14 children)

    I actually thought this was a god tier shitpost until I realized this is unironic

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    Pretty much every time I open Facebook, I am getting at least one post that is unironically advocating for biblical polygamy. Usually with shitty AI comics.

    With how rapidly the U.S. is turning into the Handmaid’s Tale, it feels like this is a botted attempt to shift the Overton window into deeper christofascism.

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  • [–] 81 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I've never seen someone get so close to realizing that gender is a meaningless social construct while still being on the complete opposite side of the map. This person would be perfectly set up for the ultimate full-court shot if they'd ever actually reassess their preconceived beliefs.

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    [–] 39 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Is there a more frightened creature on the face of this planet than American conservatives?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    It's not fear, it's a mindset that starts with the idea that what they personally want is how the world ought to work. People don't generally make public arguments that go against their own self interest. Dudebro from the OP's screengrabs obviously has his sights set on multiple women, so he's going to say whatever dumb shit that can drag that mindset into whatever group he considers himself to be a part of.

    Or it's satire and this is Poe's law in action. Dude should've had a winky.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    I vaguely remember learning in biology class in high school about some kind of vole that was becoming extinct because it was so high-strung that if someone yelled at it, its heart would explode.

    So no.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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    Quality post, this is truly insane.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (1 child)
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    Don't feed the drama. It only makes it grow. There are bigger fish to fry.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Theologically speaking, he's not wrong:

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Except all of those examples are from the Old Testament, which most Christians tend to pick and choose from, largely believing that it's effectively been wiped away by the New Testament. They treat it mostly as historical text about the lead up to Jesus's arrival, generally not as any active set of laws or rules. But it is very much a pick and choose source of hypocrisy for what different Christians consider as "still counting". Tons of examples like this to garbage person using it to justify their bullshit.

    Also worth noting that the Christian Old Testament is from the same source text as the Jewish Tanakh, except that Jewish interpretations/translations are based off older material/translations closer to the original "source" text where Christian ones tend to be based off early translations into languages like Greek and Latin, and the Christian take on it reorganizes it roughly chronologically.


    All this to say, most Christians see this shit as the horrid backwards ancient shit it is, and these examples are mostly present in Jewish canon as well despite the ever present edgy internet atheist brigade's hyperfixation with exclusively taking on Christianity.

    Still awful, still worth calling out, but being more informed helps everyone make better criticisms.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    largely believing that it’s effectively been wiped away by the New Testament

    Until you ask them about gay people, and then they love to bring out some Old Testament verses...

    Nah. You don't get to say "this is my infallible holy book that is never wrong" and then clarify that half of it doesn't count ... unless you want it to count.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Ok who's trying to convince their wife of an open relationship? I hope they know the men usually don't get with as many other partners as the women do. And then they get butthurt their wife is sleeping with other people even tho it was their idea in the first place.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    They don't want an open relationship. What they want is a relationship like the kings in the Bible had: one husband with multiple wives. The men get to be polygamous, but the women are still monogamous.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Well, based on what this post is saying, they aren't trying to convince their wives to be in an open relationship, they're trying to pursue polygamy. It says "if you limit men to only one wife," it doesn't say "if you limit people to one spouse." They want it one sided.

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    [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

    I've had this done to my face. Usually from ethical ENM people lecturing me on how my monogamy is destroying society and oppressing me and everyone around me and I'm an unethical person if I only want to date monogamously.

    I usually just no longer interact with such people, but that's just me.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Genuinely, I tried dating someone who was poly. Watching her kiss someone else hurt in a way that I can never fully describe. I understand that that's a me issue and not a her issue. But I can't do it. My heart just doesn't work that way.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 3 months ago*

    My ex used poly as a way to shop for a replacement. Watching him introduce the guy to our favorite places, start prioritizing him over me… it fucked me up. My 30th birthday and he was with him.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    gold-tier shitpost. i'm gonna spam this all over the place next time somebody brings up monogamy.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So are they advocating for polygamy or poly armory

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Those things shown aren't even directly related.

    This world is too full of people who don't bother to train or use their brains appropriately

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