June is widely recognized as Pride Month, but a handful of Republican governors have bestowed alternative titles that both supporters and opponents view as counterprogramming.
Without directly saying the idea was to replace Pride, the governors of Indiana and Tennessee rebranded June as Nuclear Family Month to celebrate units made up of “one husband, one wife and any biological, adopted or fostered children.”
In Alabama, it’s Strong Families Month, intended to coincide with Father’s Day. Gov. Kay Ivey’s proclamation says fathers are “the head of the household” and “homes led by a father and mother provide children with the structure and discipline necessary to succeed throughout life.”
Pointless attacks on LGBTQ aside, this fixation on the elementary family (i.e. as opposed to the extended family) has been rather deleterious for our society.
It puts tremendous financial and temporal pressure on young adults and goes against the social structure that humans have had for millennia and still observe in some parts of the world. It should be very obvious why so many are delaying or altogether skipping parenthood.
Americans have been taught to isolate themselves. Personal responsibility, they call it
More like “divide and conquer”
The atomization works very well. Most even do it to themselves.
That’s how good the programming is.
You’ll see this kind of thing when someone says they - or someone else - are “too old for X” or when the begin sentences with “my generation…” or all the endless thinkpieces on boomers vs. Gen X vs. Y vs. Z vs. Alpha as if all these people are different species or something.
Oh, I know