Professor says monogamy culture is 'romantic capitalism,' rife with possession and hoarding

This is the sort of thing this editor saw earlier but decided to wait for the lull in the election tabulation to write about. They’re trying to make everything into a “sexuality” now — even pedophilia, whose proponents they now prefer to call MAPs, or Minor-Attracted Persons. What if monogamy is your kink, though — isn’t this thread kink-shaming? Professor Jenn M. Jackson is here to enlighten us on monogamy culture.

Monogamy culture is consumed with ideas about possession and hoarding. It's romantic capitalism.

— dr. jenn m. jackson (they/them) (@JennMJacksonPhD) November 5, 2022

Capitalism is good … tell us more.

Monogamous people are socialized from childhood to believe that affection, care, and concern are all limited resources that can only be directed at someone they want to sleep with or ride the relationship escalator with.

— dr. jenn m. jackson (they/them) (@JennMJacksonPhD) November 5, 2022

I find that even those folx who believe in freedom for all people or who have read all the Black Feminist books about community and kinship struggle with hoarding affection and care.

— dr. jenn m. jackson (they/them) (@JennMJacksonPhD) November 5, 2022

Monogamy culture (when practiced in a toxic way) is detrimental to the kinship networks we need to build a freer world with one another. It synonymizes the sexual and romantic with the intimate and the vulnerable. They are just not the same.

— dr. jenn m. jackson (they/them) (@JennMJacksonPhD) November 5, 2022

So there’s a non-toxic way to practice monogamy culture?

I am increasingly finding it hard to build in community with queer monogamous folk. Even as they believe they espouse ideas about liberation, they work to police intimacy and those two actions are fundamentally incommensurate.

— dr. jenn m. jackson (they/them) (@JennMJacksonPhD) November 5, 2022

I need people to stop interchanging monogamy with monogamy culture. One is the practice and the other is the environment surrounding that practice.

I'm not talking about monogamy in practice. I'm talking about the culture around it that is incredibly toxic.

— dr. jenn m. jackson (they/them) (@JennMJacksonPhD) November 6, 2022

Oh, so practicing monogamy is OK, but it’s the incredibly toxic culture around it that’s the problem. Is this systemic, like racism? It’s likely that the white colonizers who largely practiced monogamy are the ones who built the culture we all live in today. Do we need to do away with romantic capitalism and replace it with romantic socialism? We need more information.

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— Not Quite Young (@stillundone) November 7, 2022

AI generated take

— dudus (@dudusx12_) November 7, 2022

it's not a culture, it's nature!

— Pile of notes 🦓 (@PileNotes) November 6, 2022

thank you for contributing to the war against the meaning of words

— linksy (@lockedlinksy) November 7, 2022

Groooooaaan

— Pithy McTweet (@PithyMcTweet) November 7, 2022

You should workshop this bit a little more. It is not intersectional enough to my taste.

— wouter (@WouterVanPutten) November 7, 2022

Y’all just come on this app and say anything

— O (@SuckaFreeO) November 6, 2022

If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, check out all the replies; there’s a real college classroom feel going on; for example:

Monogamy is such a privilege. It has the world rooting for it; all the religions; the legal system; the entire cultural industry (name me one love song which isn't about a couple!) and yet monogamy fails spectacularly. People have been emotionally manipulated into a lie.

— Viktor Zahtila (@v_zahtila) November 6, 2022