So what happens when you grow up in such a socialist family? Well, for one thing you don't call your mum "mum":
That tweet was made in the context of Owen Jones describing his mother's commitment to feminism.
It's that idea again that we should be self-defining and therefore we shouldn't be defined by a traditional or inherited or natural role like that of mother. Therefore, Owen is not allowed to call his mother "mum".
It's a logical application of the theory, but it suggests that the theory itself is misguided and that self-definition is not always and everywhere the principle to be followed.
Hat tip: David Thompson
I followed that link...
ReplyDeleteDepressing, the amount of leftist vermin that exist out there... utter scum that they are.
I think that must have been C. S. Lewis' idea when he described the Scrubb family in 'The Voyage of the Dawn Treader'. They were very 'up-to-date and advanced people' and Eustace (the son) never called his father and mother 'father' and 'mother' but 'Harold' and 'Alberta.'
ReplyDeleteHappily, there won't be a 5th generation because they'll refuse to breeed ("mum" or "dad" being such a limiting role, you know).
ReplyDeleteAnd Owen Jones is gay anyway. But he might adopt children and indoctrinate them...
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