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I had a conversation with a former Yale classmate.

She was telling me that monogamy is outdated and that marriage is this kind of

patriarchal, outmoded institution.

And then I asked her how she grew up and she was raised by two-parent family, stable structure.

I asked her, if and when you have a family, how do you want to do that?

And she said, I want to have, you know, I'll probably end up having a, you know, husband

and get married and kind of have that conventional family life.

But just because I want to do it doesn't mean it should have to be for everyone and that I do think

that marriage is problematic and so on and so forth and I thought this is interesting because

she benefited from

this institution. She intends to carry the benefits of those institutions forward to her own children,

but her official public position is you know people shouldn't have to do this or or she's

publicly denigrating it and saying,

actually, you know, don't do this, or that it's problematic or it's impressive in some way.

And I encounter that repeatedly.

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