This week, I dive into a thoughtful question posed on one of my TikToks: is it anti-feminist to get married? I shuffle through my Family Law notes to give an overview of the legal history of marriage, which is unsurprisingly pretty sexist. (Yes, the Supreme Court really did rule that women couldn't be practicing lawyers.) I unpack my complicated feelings about my pending nuptials in light of the patriarchal and sexist foundations of marriage before going on to question even further what "family" means in our society. Marx and Engels made early arguments for abolishing the family, and even David Brooks wrote an article in March 2020 suggesting the evolution of the nuclear family. "Family abolition" sounds terrible, but is it really as bad as it sounds?

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intro - 0:00

legal history of marriage - 3:00

is marriage anti-feminist? - 5:47

should we abolish the family? - 11:17

[references]

https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/98/145/

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/83us130

https://twitter.com/nonbinarybooty/status/1590825946181144577

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjdzwb/sophie-lewis-feminist-abolishing-the-family-full-surrogacy-now

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/09/why-we-should-abolish-the-family

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/03/the-nuclear-family-was-a-mistake/605536/

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