Say It Ain't So! Abolish the Kitchen to Abolish the Family, Says Femi-Communist Author

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🗓️ 28 September 2022

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Femi-Communist Sophie Lewis' new book — 'Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation' — hopes to destroy the silly, destructive family construct, and she starts in the kitchen. This isn't her first assault on the dreaded nuclear family. Stephen Green, Scott Ott, and Bill Whittle create five new episodes of Right Angle each week, including one for Members only. When you join, you can become an author on our Member-written blog, and engage with like-minded folks in the forums and comments. To become a Member tap the big green button at https://BillWhittle.com If you found value in this episode, and want to express it tangibly, use the big blue button at https://BillWhittle.com to make a one-time or recurring donation to support this work. Explore the full Right Angle archive: https://billwhittle.com/category/shows/ra/

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0:00.0	You've got to fight this stuff at a fundamental level, or they just keep coming back.
0:07.8	Abolish the Kitchen for love and liberation, because that's what communism is all about.
0:13.4	Hey, everybody, I'm Steve Green with Bill Little and Scott Ott.
0:15.7	This is Right Angle, barred to you by the members of Bill Whittle.com, and gentlemen,
0:20.4	we got to add another thing to the already overlong list of things
0:26.2	that communists either want to abolish or ban or destroy, you know, so they can build
0:31.3	the new Soviet manner or whatever they're calling it this decade.
0:33.9	I can never remember.
0:35.0	This one comes from radical feminist Sophie Lewis. She has a new
0:39.7	book out. It's called Abolish the Family, a manifesto for Care in Liberation. That's just a start,
0:45.8	though. And speaking of starts in this kind of glowing interview she got in the new statesman
0:53.0	magazine.
0:55.6	Where is this quote?
0:56.3	It says,
0:59.8	If we begin by abolishing our kitchens,
1:02.4	what else might we get a taste for destroying?
1:05.1	Ooh, I almost hate to ask.
1:09.4	And according to Lewis, Scott, I'm going to direct this one to you.
1:12.7	According to Lewis, family is a terrible way to satisfy our desire for love and care and ought to be abolished. What do you see replacing love and
1:21.1	family and, you know, eating food that you cooked? It's a patently ridiculous argument because nobody said that you can't experience love and care outside of the family.
1:35.3	It's not like, like, I grant you that there...
1:38.3	She says it's a bad way though.
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