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“Marriage fundamentalism” promotes the ideas of “White supremacy,” according to a White George Mason University professor.
Professor Bethany Letiecq wrote in the Journal of Marriage and Family about her theory “that marriage fundamentalism, like structural racism, is a key structuring element of White heteropatriarchal supremacy.”
“Marriage fundamentalism can be understood as an ideological and cultural phenomenon, where adherents espouse the superiority of the two-parent married family,” she wrote. “But it is also a hidden or unacknowledged structural mechanism of White heteropatriarchal family supremacy that is essential to the reproduction and maintenance of family inequality in the United States.”
In the bizarre op-ed criticizing White people and marriage, Letiecq refers to “White heteropatriarchal nuclear families (WHNFs),” and calls for “marriage fundamentalism” to be “dismantled.” She writes:
Through several examples, I demonstrate how—since colonization—marriage fundamentalism has been instantiated through laws, policies, and practices to unduly advantage WHNFs while simultaneously marginalizing Black, Indigenous, immigrant, mother-headed, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) families, among others.
I conclude with a call for family scientists to further interrogate how marriage fundamentalism reproduces family inequality in American family life and to work toward its dismantling. A deeper understanding of how these complex and often covert mechanisms of structural oppression operate in family life is needed to disrupt these mechanisms and advance family equality and justice.
Letiecq describes herself as follows:
I come to this work with my own complex family narrative of marriages, divorces, and remarriages across generations of my family, and my own experiences of interracial marriage, divorce, cohabitation, motherhood, single-parenting, and step-mothering. As a White, cisgender woman, I am currently living with my partner and co-raising our children in a committed heterosexual union outside the institution of marriage.
Heaven forbid if White people want to live by any sort of structure or laws, or want to achieve success and wealth. In her lengthy rant against “white supremacy,” Letiecq writes:
But White supremacy is more than an ideology. It is also a multidimensional and interconnected system of structures, laws, policies, rules, regulations, and processes by which people racialized as White maintain and control power, wealth, and resources for their own and their family’s structural advantage in an unequal society (Mills, 2013; Walsdorf et al., 2020).
Proudly touting her wild op-ed, Letiecq announced in a social media post, “Here, I argue that marriage fundamentalism (MF) is a key but hidden logic of White supremacy. To advance intersectional justice, we should consider how MF operates alongside other forms of structural oppression to maintain inequalities.”
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Here, I argue that marriage fundamentalism (MF) is a key but hidden logic of White supremacy. To advance intersectional justice, we should consider how MF operates alongside other forms of structural oppression to maintain inequalities.https://t.co/hYJxRFnccJ— Bethany Letiecq (@BethanyLetiecq) February 5, 2024
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