isaac 🌻

@androgynyfiend

28 | usa | normal marxist | trans policy wonk | assigned wwi guy at birth

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isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· 28d

this is the opening I'm working with on my family abolition essay

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· 28d

reading a different article now. the absolutely unhinged things I want to say to this asshole

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· 29d

me when i'm definitely a communist and not a braindead fascist

My argument can be summarized by the view that other people’s children are public goods. This means that new people are broadly good for society; they bring benefits beyond those narrowly enjoyed by the parents.
Other people’s children can, in fact, be understood as public goods in the technical sense of the term. The term refers to goods that are (1) “nonexcludable,” meaning you can’t prevent others from benefiting from them and (2) “nonrivalrous,” meaning one person’s use doesn’t reduce what’s available for others. When left entirely to the private sphere, public goods can be underproduced, so to speak.

In the classic case, a lighthouse is a public good because you cannot exclude other boats from benefiting from the light, and when others see the light, it is not diminished. By contrast, a hot dog from a street vendor is not a natural public good — when you consume it, you can exclude others, and your consumption does sadly reduce its size. There are lots of public goods out there that are undersupplied if left in private hands: education, health, clean air, clean water, a healthy stock of fish, good-quality information, and so on. In the modern world, other people’s children qualify too.

This way of thinking about children also contrasts with writers in the family abolition literature, who argue that the nuclear family forces all of the enjoyment and suffering of kinship into a hidden and private sphere. These authors are right to point to the importance of supporting a diversity of alternative forms of family and care. But my argument here suggests that even the private sphere of the family generates unintended benefits to the public.

With these considerations in mind, we ought to rethink public policy to make having children a lot less costly and a lot easier. This is far from a solved problem, but among other things, it requires big cash transfers to young people, especially generous and egalitarian forms of parental leave. There is no reason to think that policies that make it easier to have children cannot be built in ways that secure the autonomy and flourishing of those who are going to have them. This kind of public policy also means that government ought to build, fund, and support the construction of new homes: one of the factors behind the baby boom of the mid-twentieth century was the housing boom, which made the prospect of raising children less daunting. These kinds of policies have direct and indirect benefits: direct because they are good for people today, and indirect because sufficient scale makes for a better life for the people of the future.

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· 29d

i hate marxist academics so much like this is a paper the two of them worked on and i'm just like god can you actually just focus on things that matter. can you talk about the economy or something

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· 29d

my mom be like okay your birthday is over time for the evangelical brain rot

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 11

remnants from the Scottish invasion

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 10

why's bro cunty as hell

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 10

people sharing this on X as proof that TERFs don't hate trans men but y'all... yes they do lol. the ~ AFABs ~ who would agree with this are 1) already transmisogynists and 2) are conceptualized to be non-passing for the most part

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

"yeah, financial stress makes it hard to love and care for others. but have family abolitionists considered that removing the financial stress specific to the nuclear family wouldn't actually help?"

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

HEY EVERYONE WHO GREW UP IN ABUSIVE FAMILIES. REALLY DUMB OF US TO THINK THAT WE COULD FIND BETTER SUPPORT SYSTEMS IF WE WEREN'T FUCKING HELD PRISONERS AS CHILDREN. WE'RE JUST STUPID NAIVE LITTLE BABIES

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

READING A DIFFERENT ARTICLE NOW AND HOLY SHIT WHEN I SAY MY JAW FUCKING DROPPED

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

this woman identifies as a feminist and a marxist and yet her conclusion is "men are more likely to be hateful misogynists when they're NOT romantically involved with a woman. women say their romantic relationships with men ruin their lives. the conclusion? heterosexuality can be good"

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

to quote cabaret: when you go to get a word of advice from the fat little pastor and he will tell you to love evermore / but when hunger comes a rap rat-a-tat rat-a-tat at your window see how love flies out the door. which is a more marxist analysis than this

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

so the article in question opens with her talking about men beating their female partners, then talks about how men exploit the concept of love to exploit women's domestic/reproductive labor, and then immediately goes into "actually, men are less likely to beat you if you just love them hard enough"

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

i'm writing a response to this article and taking notes on this article plus 8 other articles she's written

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

this is your brain on never considering children as human beings as family abolition isn't about the fucking choice to have kids it's about "can you survive and have your needs met WITHOUT a family?"

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

took a break from anti-family abolition woman and now I'm back and missing myself off instead of sleeping. I am a family abolitionist who also might like to have kids of my own some day what the actual fuck are you talking about!

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

i'm beefing with the anti-family abolition woman i'm doing my fucking research on her stupid ass articles

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

me when i'm too embarrassed to admit i have a good relationship with my family

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 9

reading other articles by the jacobin anti-family abolitionist woman and she is so stupid god bless

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

love this point bc it 1) justifies family abolition in that it proves that the nuclear family ***is not enough*** and 2) completely ignores how families can politicize ppl in BAD ways, like oh idk the richest man in the world buying one of the biggest social media platforms to push anti-trans shit

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

i was so annoyed at this paragraph that i didn't even process how insane the paragraph immediately before it is. is having a laugh with the lads at the pub downtown while your wife cooks and cleans and puts the kids to bed social reproduction

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

like calling family abolition a "pessimistic impulse" is genuinely offensive. marx advocated for this close to 200 years ago. it is a profoundly optimistic idea rooted in respect for technological and societal advancement and human dignity

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

this is a fucking crazy thing to say in the ~ parental rights ~ era oh my god lmfao

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

Jacobin's most conservative ass post yet holy shit lmfao

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

i looked into the author and she's a cishet woman who writes about trans ppl constantly which has me even more ??? about all of this bc of the incredible transmisogyny in this excerpt

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

the interviews she did are fucking amazing btw like cope levels off the fucking charts

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 8

baby girl can you please elaborate a bit

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 6

welcome 2 my twisted mind i'm going to kms when new ppl get elected this year and i have to update this

isaac 🌻@androgynyfiend· Jul 6

subjecting you all to my methodology bc i cannot explain how many hundreds of hours i've spent on this over the past 2 years