With This Ring…

We form a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy.” 

I was a little bit worried that the results of the last election would reduce the material available for my clever social commentary. My fears were unfounded. First, from an interview on NPR, paid for at least in part by my income tax dollars:

Most of the people I hang around with are cyclists, and we all complain that we need to lose a few pounds. Of course none of us does. On the rare occasions when I venture into a movie theater I am stunned by how many very large people there are, taking their seats armed with popcorn and sodas and candy to keep them from starving over the next two hours. And many of them are Caucasian, so I guess they missed the Supremacy Memo.

And for my readers with offspring attending college, look where your tuition money is going:

Professor Bethany Letiecq wrote in the Journal of Marriage and Family about her theory “that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy.”

I’m not going to guess the appropriate pronouns, so I’ll just say the Letiecq is a professor at George Mason University, located in northern Virginia and close to DC. The school is named for one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. Ever since DEI we all know this country was founded on structural racism, but I had no idea that marriage fundamentalism was a culprit too.

It is really kind of amazing that the University retains its name. Mason was a Virginia land holder who owned slaves. When Professor Letiecq solves the marriage fundamentalism issue, she can proceed to the University Name Change Committee.

I love the expression “white heteropatriarchal supremacy.” I’m not sure what it means, so I actually went to the Journal of Marriage and Family and looked at Professor Letuecq’s paper. If you thought calculus or microeconomics were complicated, you are in for a shock. Although my brief read through convinced me that the treatise is ‘full of sound and fury, signifying nothing‘ except that white male heterosexuals are responsible for all the ills of the world.

On Brumby Road, we practice our own version of marriage fundamentalism. If Stoker isn’t happy, nobody is happy’. And on her part, Stoker lets me rant and rave a bit when we have disagreements, secure in the knowledge that we will end up doing it her way. It’s fundamental…