Far From Home
Breakdown (1997) by Jonathan Mostow
Do you sometimes just randomly come across a movie you’ve totally forgotten existed, like, you don’t really recall what it was about just that you watched it at some point? Such a movie is Breakdown for me. Now, I was a Kurt Russell fan at some point and I watched a lot of his movies. He’s a fine actor. But this film I completely blanked on, so, of course, it…
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"It’s possible,” writes Jessica Winter in the New Yorker, “that if JD Vance had his way, citizenship in the United States would be conferred not solely by birthright but by marriage and children.” This is no exaggeration. In a now viral 2021 clip, JD Vance said: “Let’s give votes to all children in this country, but let’s give control over those votes to the parents of those children. When you go to the polls in this country as a parent, you should have more power – you should have more of an ability to speak your voice in our democratic republic – than people who don’t have kids. Let’s face the consequences and the reality: If you don’t have as much of an investment in the future of this country, maybe you shouldn’t get nearly the same voice.”
This position now represents large swaths of the Republican party, which has taken on an angry and aggressively prescriptive approach to family life.
If you’re a woman in America, Republicans want you to be a mother whether you care to or not. They want you to risk your health to give them more babies. Then, when those babies get bigger, they want to make sure that those children’s fathers – or, excuse me, “parents” – have a near-total control over both them and you.
They don’t want you to be able to get a divorce if your marriage turns unhappy or even abusive.
They don’t want your daughter to be able to get birth control if her father doesn’t approve of it; they don’t want your other daughter to be able to get the hormone treatment she needs to thrive as her truest self. They want to inspect your kids’ genitals before they let them play on the high school softball team. They want to ban books, and decide what your kids can and can’t read.
They want to bar the medical treatments that allow you to plan your family and have children on your own terms – things like egg freezing and IVF. They want to make you have your children young, and they want to stigmatize those of us women who pursue our own careers, interests and ambitions instead of popping out as many children as they deem appropriate.
If you say no – if you resist their prescription for marriage, motherhood and perpetual feminine self-sacrifice – they want to let you know, in sneeringly condescending terms, that you’re “childless cat ladies”, that you’re not as good as them, that step-parents are not real parents, blended families are not real families, that women who don’t have children are disgusting, worthless and deserving of contempt. If you say no, they want to denigrate you in public, punish you financially, dilute your vote and lessen your citizenship.
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Because the version of “family” that the Republicans are putting forward is one that can only look a very particular way. In their eyes, family is a compulsory relation of domination, an institution in which marriage and parenthood function to grant men near-total private control over women and children. Women, meanwhile, face a grim fate in the Republicans’ preferred vision of family: they are forced into motherhood, trapped into marriage, and punished for resistance.
Moira Donegan at The Guardian on the Republican Party's weird obsession with familial structures (07.29.2024).
Moira Donegan wrote for The Guardian on the Republican Party’s obsession with familial structures with the nomination of J.D. Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate, as their agenda is about supporting the traditional nuclear family at the expense of all other family forms (single parenthood, blended families, two daddies, and two mommies, etc.)
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Silna: I really like this whole “good cop, bad cop” act you guys have going on.
Crozier: It’s not an act, it’s just that i'm mean and Dr Goodsir isn't.
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like mother like daughter
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