Love and oppression cannot coexist it’s imperative that we resist the dominant paradigm is boring and oppressive we must create a viable alternative we need to stand up to society’s repression teaching ourselves and our partners some lessons romance is an ideology used for social control a way to keep you in your place a way to save the oppressor’s face a way to keep women in the kitchen legs perpetually open love should never be like this domestication is the game pacification it’s all the same do you think it’s a coincidence that marriage has so many legal benefits the dominant romantic ideology upholds the institution of monogamy it’s a social proscription keeping people in isolation