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Keeping universal insight a secret and expecting everyone to figure it out for themselves seems oppressive to me. Suppose nobody told you how difficult single
by ip26 4y ago
Keeping universal insight a secret and expecting everyone to figure it out for themselves seems oppressive to me.
Suppose nobody told you how difficult single parenthood is out of consideration for all the single parents, and you therefore decided to adopt. You figure it out two years later. Years have gone by, and dating is now very difficult. Is this somehow progressive!?
- lapcat 4y ago> Keeping universal insight a secret Marriage is hardly a secret. > Suppose nobody told you how difficult single parenthood is I think you can guess. Anyway, that's not a secret either. People are aware of these things. The options are not sermonization or censorship; that's a false dichotomy.
- ip26 4y agoSure, people guess. And I expect most still underestimate it by a country mile. It isn’t very openly discussed, because no one wants to impinge involuntarily single-parenthood households. Being vaguely aware that “single-parenthood is harder than two-parenthood” does not count as informed.
- lapcat 4y ago> It isn’t very openly discussed We're openly discussing it right now. I'm truly baffled by the idea that it isn't openly discussed.
- lodi 4y agoGP isn't saying that this topic is literally censored; he's saying that discussing it is taboo, and increasingly so.
- lapcat 4y ago> he's saying that discussing it is taboo, and increasingly so. It's not though. There's no evidence of that. In fact, the very claim "no one wants to impinge involuntarily single-parenthood households" is itself an ironic admission that the difficulties of single-parent households are obvious to everyone.