Feminist ‘scholar’ calls to ‘abolish’ the family
amid pandemic: ‘Households are capitalism’s
pressure cookers’
BizPac Review,
by
Katie Everett
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/18/2020 5:24:26 PM
Sophie Lewis, a scholar at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and a frequent speaker at American universities, wrote an article suggesting that the coronavirus pandemic should push Americans to abolish the family.
In an opinion editorial published by Open Democracy in late March, Lewis argues that “the private family qua mode of social reproduction still, frankly, sucks. It genders, nationalizes and races us. It norms us for productive work. It makes us believe we are ‘individuals’…”
“We deserve better than the family. And the time of corona is an excellent time to practice abolishing it,” she adds.
“As feminists for decades have excavated,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
paral04 4/19/2020 10:55:54 AM (No. 384368)
Who is this idiot? She sounds like a character out of "Brave New World".
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/19/2020 11:01:02 AM (No. 384372)
Again, another liberal who thinks she is god.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/19/2020 11:04:28 AM (No. 384373)
This is merely another concrete example that PROGRESSIVISM is a mental disorder.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
jacksin5 4/19/2020 11:20:00 AM (No. 384392)
She hit all the Feminist targets in one article. There's still plenty of room in the jungle if you want to take all your ilk and revive the Amazon Tribe.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 4/19/2020 11:23:06 AM (No. 384396)
For a scholar she is not very intelligent.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 4/19/2020 11:33:34 AM (No. 384408)
Electra
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
agrunt 4/19/2020 11:38:15 AM (No. 384415)
The family unit has been and will continue to be the successful social construct forever. It works. We have now gotten to a point where we are able to afford to support a class of people that we call academics. In some cases said academics spend too much time glazing at their navel and go off the track as this woman has.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
heartsurgeon 4/19/2020 11:41:07 AM (No. 384418)
"Founded in the back of a bar"
This institute is a clever construct to provide employment for a multitude of social justice warriors with traditionally unmarketable skill sets.
Curiously, based upon pictures of their staff and board, they appear to lack diversity! No Blacks!!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
starboard 4/19/2020 11:54:07 AM (No. 384440)
The family is the basic unit of society. How many children does she have? ........... I thought so. So many of these feminists, especially from my generation are now discovering they made a big mistake. They gave up on having a family for what? For their career, for money, for convenience. None of those things compare to hearing a young child call you Grandma.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
janjan 4/19/2020 12:01:08 PM (No. 384451)
It’s obvious that this woman is dealing with some traumatic childhood issues and needs heavy psychotherapy. But instead she preaches her twisted ideologies to everyone else. No one is asking her for lifestyle advice and yes, we do think we are individuals. It is she who is a groupthink drone chained to destructive lberalism. I’ll pray for her.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
marbles 4/19/2020 12:04:31 PM (No. 384454)
She's a self hating "woman". She's also a communist.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
franq 4/19/2020 12:07:48 PM (No. 384458)
Ignore her godless raving.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Red Ghost 4/19/2020 12:10:14 PM (No. 384463)
Ya gotta feel sorry for these self loathing, self destructive dames. Anger just seeps out of their pours. Imagine living with that kind of hate and fury everyday, every hour. This so-called scholar is lecturing and teaching young skulls full of mush. We can only hope that this virus that is advancing home schooling and virtual learning will cause parents to re-evaluate what their kids are learning and who they are learning it from. Hopefully these scholars one day will be unemployed.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
stablemoney 4/19/2020 12:18:38 PM (No. 384475)
The left calls for diversity, then advocates everyone be coerced into doing the same thing, quite a despicable group.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/19/2020 12:28:16 PM (No. 384483)
She's a crackpot with a PHD. A junk scientist. She gives a leftist vision of the future. its not viable, but that doesn't stop her. Her vision would be enforced thru tyranny. At least she publishes what she plans for the rest of us. Frightening actually. Can't say we haven't been warned.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 4/19/2020 12:34:56 PM (No. 384496)
The Brooklyn Institute For Social Research?
What are the odds that this loony socialist outfit is being funded by Pubbie votes? 99.99999%?
The Pubbies never fail to fund their worst enemies. They wouldn't be Pubbies otherwise.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 4/19/2020 12:41:27 PM (No. 384511)
I think the shut down has had some unexpected results for the Left. People for the most part are rediscovering their families, and that is always a good thing. I think that people are also going to be taking a very hard look at the public school system as well. Thanks to the Left, the kids of our nation are being homeschooled and that too is a good thing. I see parents and kids outside spending time together as families, and I hope they realize how good that is for the family unit.
How does this stupid schmuck think that societies and cultures are built in the first place? It is indeed all about the Family unit. Without that family unit, culture and societies DIE.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/19/2020 12:47:14 PM (No. 384516)
She turns so many nouns into verbs that she sounds like someone with dementia. I loathe academic speak!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Smart11344 4/19/2020 1:02:15 PM (No. 384535)
A scholar? I highly doubt it. A moron, of course.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Rinktum 4/19/2020 1:40:42 PM (No. 384598)
Straight out of the Communist manifesto. These people are sick.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DARling 4/19/2020 1:41:28 PM (No. 384599)
I would bet money that no one will invite crazy Aunt Sophie to move in when she's too old and frail to poison the minds of young people at the university.
Families are the true safety nets of society. Sophie should try cultivating relationships with her relatives while she still has the chance to change her sorry existence.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
NYbob 4/19/2020 2:34:16 PM (No. 384636)
Her childhood must have been a hoot. Nice job parents. Raving maniacs should be put down or given a wide berth, NOT employed by any institution or 'University.'
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
The Remnants 4/19/2020 2:48:00 PM (No. 384646)
And what would she like to be abolished after the family?
Maybe, everyone's pets?
I don't even know her, but I can bet she'd scream, "Nooooooooo".
To each his/or her own.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/19/2020 2:48:55 PM (No. 384648)
Or "Grandpa" #9.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
kono 4/19/2020 3:39:34 PM (No. 384689)
How can anybody be so spectacularly wrong? It seems that each and every assertion she makes is exactly (of nearly exactly) the opposite of the truth. She can't invalidate the truth just by spinning it with derisive re-wording (like calling the affirmation of heterosexuality "heterosexual servitude").
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
4Justice 4/19/2020 4:03:21 PM (No. 384713)
These people are entirely serious and have been working on this effort for over a century now. They are so close to their goals too because we have been allowing it to slowly evolve. We have not pushed back against the incremental social engineering they planned, coordinated, and have been implementing in concert with the help of all the major institutions which they have been INFILTRATING for the last 140 years. We LET this go on because of complacency and lack of vigilance. It will only get worse unless we ALL start getting involved now! Why can't we organize? There must be some talented folks out there who can bring people together. And we have to have some who are great leaders who can plan, coordinate and motivate others to win this war...because that is what it is--a war. A cultural and political war that we should try to win without violence BEFORE it's too late! We have conceded way too much already without a fight and hardly a word of protest. Do we really want to just give our country and way of life away like this?? Are we just scared sheep waiting to be slaughtered?? Did our fathers, grandfathers, brothers, mothers, aunts and uncles all give their lives fighting for freedom just so we could sit on our rears and let the tyrants take it all away?? If we don't take action immediately, we deserve what we get, and all the sacrifices made by all the great Americans, from our Founders and Framers to our young men and women who served in the Middle East, will have all been for nothing. So what will it be? Another day on the couch complaining about the left and injustices while they continue to steal our lives from us and fundamentally transform our nation and society into a totalitarian nightmare? Or will each and everyone of us pledge today to start taking action, and go out and join PACs, get involved in local governments, make and distribute fliers to set up groups of like-minded people and organize committees for action. Will parents and custodians get involved with their local PTAs, review and scrutinize educational materials and curricula? Will any of us write, distribute and collect petitions for changes to be made in public schools and their districts? Or do you want your children indoctrinated and not allowed to think for themselves? Why are we frozen in fear? Or do we not care? PLEASE do NOT let them destroy our country. Evil wins when good people do nothing. And so far, we have done nothing to stop the evil. If any of it still matters to you, please go out today, tomorrow and everyday after and do the Lord's work (or Goodness' work, if you prefer.). If not, prepare for the coming slavery and servitude, if you are still allowed to go on, that is. It's entirely up to EACH and EVERY one of you.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
Krause 4/19/2020 4:30:42 PM (No. 384729)
The bar to be called a 'scholar' seems to be pretty low.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
raspberry 4/19/2020 5:26:55 PM (No. 384784)
Liberalism is a manifestation of mental illness.
She proves it.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
udanja99 4/19/2020 5:38:21 PM (No. 384801)
Classic Cloward Piven.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/19/2020 6:02:24 PM (No. 384817)
Feminism is a made up concept that has fallen on its face due to the fact that women can not survive without men and vice versa. We begin our lives with a priority of finding a mate, usually of the opposite gender, and once we make a choice, we are sometimes successful and sometimes not but if not, we keep on trying. How does one become a scholar in nonsense? That, of course, is a rhetorical question because our universities do it all the time with even more abstract topics. If you are willing to pay the money they will give you a certificate in most anything.
This woman is not fat or ugly enough to be a feminist so there must be something very wrong with the wiring in her head.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Thegranddanny 4/19/2020 6:31:56 PM (No. 384831)
She is free to not be in a family or be in any arrangement she can persuade others to join. Women, men, others, robots, partridge in a pear tree, whatever. But if she tries to mess with my family, she will find out what a patriarch is capable of.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/19/2020 7:20:56 PM (No. 384868)
The 1st 3 or 4 sentences of her bio told me all I needed to know. She's proof, tho, that even worthless degrees can get you a job, of sorts!
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