"The family must be abolished, which means a 'breaking open of the family to free and unleash what’s good in it'."
The last time shark attack survivor Bethany Hamilton was on these pages she’d just given a tell-all interview to conservative commentator Tucker Carlson.
Bethany hit a wide-range of right-wing talking points – Motherhood, Homeschooling, Marriage, How Social Media is Enslaving your Kids, Christianity and “Men Don’t Belong in Women’s Sports.”
The thirty-four-year-old mammy of four, who lost her arm in a shark attack in 2003, and which was beautifully described by Matt George in a subsequent profile, said it was the WSL opening the door to T-Girls to competing in the women’s div that shook her out of her island complacency and got her politically active.
The stance cost her a sponsorship with Rip Curl which pivoted to the, as it turned out, not-so-lucrative trans-woman market.
Bethany told Tucker she was speaking for tour surfers who felt muzzled and agreed with Kelly Slater who called for a trans-only div and added she’d boycott events if it went ahead. She also issued a prophecy, predicting Third World men would “suppress hormones” so they could get rich competing against women.
Now, in a message to her almost two-and-a-half million fans, Bethany Hamilton says media is brainwashing young people into being anti-family.
“Society as a whole seems so backwards right now! Media brainwashing,” she writes over a chilling study that revealed “70% of millennials would rather have pets than kids.”
In this wild era of post-modernist thinking, “Family” has become a dangerous right-wing idea, one that perpetuates gender roles and economic inequalities and which is garlanded with notes of fanatic Christianity and white supremacy.
As Lily Sanchez beautifully wrote in her piece Why We Should Abolish the Family,
The family must be abolished, which means a “breaking open of the family to free and unleash what’s good in it and to generalize that into the social body as a whole. To make the necessary forms of care available to everyone unconditionally.”
Everyone can support family abolition, even those who feel there is nothing wrong with their family. Family abolition is not about breaking up individual families but about radically changing the society that makes the family structure necessary, about creating a society in which everyone is cared for. We can—and must—imagine and create better ways to live and to love each other.
Family. For or against?
I’ve busted up a few in my time, not always intentionally, but I still stand by the ol nuke fam.
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Surfing is gay and has been gay for years. No more men and beta cucks crying over DEI. Cool.
She doesn’t seem them as people.
She’s such a grifter, it’s almost funny
Ahem thanks very much . .I’d just like to thank the stations of the Cross and beachgrit for the cancelled comment awarded to myself and Andy C . I am humbled to receive such an accolade from our peers and cunts . And crossdressers
Good day .
Quite the literary hand job you just gave her ol’ Gil
Lol
3/2,781 billionaires
HAHAHA!!!
Matt downvoted you again…
the question is, should Matt go back to STAB, the third circle of hell….or shall them be relegated to an eternal life of punishment and pain in The Inertia?
wow…so your interpretation of genocide is infrastructure being destroyed, their society is not functioning and the Un says so, based on not deaths but damage to???
here have a read and at least understand what genocide is………
“the deliberate and systematic killing or persecution of a large number of people from a particular national or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group:”
Arguing over the use of the word genocide is such a western privilege while families are being slaughtered.
I don’t think there is any argument or debate to be had about whether it’s genocide in Gaza it’s just not.
Families being slaughtered , is what happens in war , the problem that exists in Gaza right now is Hamas still has hostages , there doesn’t seem to be any effective leadership in Gaza……give back the hostages and then lets talk about the future of Gaza/palestine….
The bloke who was tasked with creating the legal defined of Genocide that you quoted above was a Jewish Lawyer and holocaust survivor named Raphael Lempkin for the United Nations post WW2. What you quoted was only one of 5 qualifications for what constitutes genocide. Anywho, you know who is calling it a genocide… the United Nations, using the internationally recognised legal definition as defined by a Jewish holocaust survivor.
thank you for the information , and yes you are right about the 5 acts that constitute genocide……pretty broad though when
1) is killing members of the grou
2) causing bodliy and or mental harm
3) inflicting conditions that would bring about physical destruction
4) stopping births of the said group
5)forcibly transferring children from one group to another
Wow very broad, but I see now why Australian Koori’s see the stolen generation as part of a planned genocide by white colonialists in Australia ……still going
Have you not heard their politicians and military state those objectives?
Oh no a Bethany boycott
Yep, you got me good there Matt.
1/2,781 billionaires
BTW- the only child that has been recognized to have issues with Papa Musk is Vivian, who is transgender, which is a whole different bag of worms.
did you see what the Christians did to the Americas tho? This man ain’t wrong
They put a dent in baby sacrifice?
No she fucking doesn’t I would take her and her kids lunch money. And yours.
get a fucking grip mang
I stand with the tiger shark on this one.
see my post below as the history of pearl Harbor is nothing like what’s happening the ME……the only genocide is in the heads of people who have little understanding of the history of the ME!
so the population of Gaza has gone from 2m > 5 m in 30 years…….where’s the genocide?
I agree with many of your takes. But on this one you are wrong. Israel wants to wipe out Palestinians, end of story.
Also – how in the hell is the world’s foremost intelligence agency not remotely aware of the Hamas attack? Are you kidding me? This one is so fucking obvious.
I think the point is , Hamas/Palestinians attacked and declared war on Israel….I don’t think anybody disputes that?
I think Israel wants to disarm Hamas/Hezbollah/Syria/Iran……so Israel can live in peace….
I mean there are already 2 m Palestinians citizens of Israel , living in Israel who have Israeli passports… I mean where’s the genocide again?
Nobody disputes the attack. But am I to believe the worlds foremost intelligence agency had zero idea this was coming? C’mon, I may have been born at night, but not last night. They want to dis-arm them for sure. And dis-head, dis-leg.
That’s not the metric for defining genocide. The international courts UN etc have spoken. The Palestinians would over populate Jews hence their need for apartheid, siege of Gaza and war crimes
it’s one of them….the ICC/UN just powerless puppets……ah not sure you know Hamas/Palestinians declared war on Israel……killed/raped 1200 , took a couple of 100 hostages…….they declared war , Israel answered back…and will win the war!
try and read about the USA’s real history……Roosevelt knew weeks in advance that the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbor….did not tell Admiral Kimmel , as FDR wanted the USA to go to war….
https://www.independent.org/issues/article.asp?id=408
all info found from the freedom of information….
here’s the 8 point plan to provoke Japan into war…by Mc Collum for FDR….. https://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/McCollum/index.html
maybe she could go feed all the homeless families on the west side with her coin and have a pow wow on positive christian thinking
already does!
Just ask young boys
So do those of you that think Bethany is a nut job for her stance on family think that the world will be a better place if humanity no longer wants to procreate and have family values?
I think it’s more the case that there are other models of ‘family’ and out there which do not meet her dogmatic requirements, yet can still function to provide healthy values of upbringing children and member support.
okaaaaayyyyy.
If not the nuclear family, who raises the kids?
interesting fact: 86% of millionaires are married, and the majority have children….and More than 85% of billionaires are married and have an average of three children….and 74% of millionaires started off in the middle or lower class economic brackets.
Also, married men average 26% higher annual income than single men.
Big money is no way to make life decisions.
100% of happy people are happy.
okay, by your comment, I’m getting that you’re a VAL
The best surfer is the one having the most fun
There’s an old saying: “it takes a village to raise a child.”
fucking stupid saying
Did you solely rely on you and yer missus to raise your kids? In complete isolation?
Or did you also have; aunties, uncles, cousins, friends, neighbours, trusted community members, teachers, the clergy, etc?
Our definition of ‘a village’ has changed with society, but the ultimate necessity has not changed.
I do not rely on anyone to “raise” my kids. I choose where my children will go and with whom, and when it comes to life lessons, I provide my children with a realistic understanding of what is said or done by the people that I choose to allow them to be around.
so NO, the exquisite Mrs. Camper and I do not not rely on anyone to “raise” our children.
Sadly, you are correct ‘a village’ has changed, and I would never allow my children to be raised by the current societal village.
How’d the village work out for you and yours?
in Koori culture,,after 50k years plus of evolution…the community elders have first rights on the kids , not the parents as there is always consistency from the elders……..not from the parents.
The fact that 70% of that generation would rather have a pet rather instead of a family points to the end of civilization more than they are into “other models of family”.
ah maybe the new woke family is just somebody with a family, which is made up of a dog/cat and lets throw in a Bird…
other models…do tell us please?
A most courageous person in more ways than most people could ever begin to understand.