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For lots of people around the world the ability to love their partner is a very political thing - homosexuality being illegal in a majority of Africa, and punis

• Veen 5y ago
  We could quibble about this, but I don't think that makes their love political. The repression is external to their love of each other, not part of it. In fact, it would be a diminishment of their love to analyze it purely through a political framework—which is one reason many people don't like "everything is political". It diminishes many of the most important aspects of our lives.
  • Shish2k 5y ago
    > The repression is external to their love of each other It’s not very “external” when the police are breaking down your door to force themselves into the middle of your activities. It’s something you need to be constantly aware of - if you want to have love at all, then you need to thread it through the government’s loopholes; if you do it in public, you are “an activist”. It would be nice if “love” and “government” could be cleanly separated - but for queer people, that seems to be a fantasy that only straight people have the luxury of believing in :/