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i just won't argue whether ananormativity is a thing. i am sorry but there literally isn't a single aspect of ananormativity that isn't actually just heterosexual patriarchy. no one is oppressing you for being single or having "atypical" partnerships because of "romantic supremacy," they're oppressing you because we a) live in a society where monogamous heterosexual marriage between men and women is the only truly approved relationship by the state because it upholds patriarchy and the oppression of non-men and b) we live in a hyper-capitalist context that has made living as a single person harder and harder. you are not being oppressed because of rom-coms or valentines day cards or romance because the "romance" of relationships is not what the state weaponises, its hegemonic ideas of gender and sexuality. if the state gave a shit about romantic status then lgbt peoples in couples would have equal privileges to cis-straight ones. if you truly believe that couples have state and cultural privileges because of romance, you're not acknowledging the reality of abusive partnerships, underage "marriages" and so on. the privleges afforded to couples by the state have next to nothing to do with romance, and everything to do with patriarchy, colonialism and upholding exploitive systems that privilege white cis straight men and the nuclear family.
James Baldwin, from Giovanni’s Room
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