Found on PCM "My wife is on her second date this week"

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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I hate that this is framed as feminism, especially because it reads like an Onion article. It doesn't really sound like an "open relationship" unless the guy is also free to date on the side. This is however a prime example of what people get away with calling "the left" lately even though it isn't what an actual leftist would present as an ideal. This is an inversion of the power hierarchy and then calling it equal or progressive because the power is the opposite of the traditional power structure. This isn't leftist or feminist, it's just differently hierarchical. That doesn't solve the problem, it just gaslights people into maintaining a power structure with different winners and losers.

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That is what the Left has always been about since the Jacobins…

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That isn't the definition of left wing politics though. I fully realize that colloquially people use the word differently. That fact is what bothers me. Most people call liberals and Democrats left wing which is just dumb as hell. Even the TRAs who self identify as left are totally misusing the term. Somehow populism which is left by definition has now colloquially been marked as right wing.