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isn't just that the pressure to pair off and hook up is partially related to [cishet] natalism?
like literally! this is not a "centering of romantic love" - i'm frustrated that we're even describing "pressure to get married" as centering love - do you really think that, for most of history, women were getting married to men out of romantic inclinations? are people getting pressured to have children "out of centering of romantic love" like? this is the not the starting point for these things!
"we should talk about platonic soulmates more <3" FALSE we need to be blogging about heartbreak so bad you throw up on the side of the road brokeback mountain style. we need to blog about obscure fetishes nobody has ever heard of. and dry humping. and finally we MUST talk about crossdressing while getting married in vegas.
if you live in a colonised country where place names are both in the language of the native people and the language of the colonising country I seriously encourage you to start using the native place names. if it just has the native name (e.g. I know a lot of official place names in the USA come from native american words) I encourage you to learn the proper pronunciation for it. "what if it confuses people because the native name is less well known" then they can ask! or search it up! or you can elaborate! I live in aotearoa or te ika-a-māui. some people call it new zealand, or the north island of nz. I think it's important to acknowledge the original names. it takes very little effort but man it's important.
aotearoa is a great example of this. in recent years, there's been a push to replace english names with the original te reo māori names. more and more you'll see tāmaki makaurau instead of auckland. and people know what I mean when I say tāmaki makaurau! it's on the side of buses! it's on official government websites! my aunt and uncle (50+, white) use the māori names for nearby mountains even though the english names are technically the "official" names! my professors say it when talking about this region! I don't know. try it out. it works.
#ive found the biggest barrier isnt that no one knows the name but rather this specific thing where#like the name for where i live/the people are also suburbs within the greater area. but like. that happens all the time#with the city being the same name as the greater area so like. u can still do it even if u gotta clarify a little most of the time
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