windypoint (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} windypoint) wrote,@ 2009-01-04 22:12:00 |
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Centrelink brings in equal treatment of same sex relationships...
and some bawwwing has started, oh yes it has.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/g
Oh god I'm glad I don't work in welfare delivery any more and I don't have to put up with the whining face to face.
Being legally defined as a couple isn't just a magical wonderland of "marriage is love" and all that other sentimental shite? It involves the government taking away far more than it involves it in giving? It forces low income adults onto the charity of their resident sexual partners? It forces those sexual partners to work harder to support their family and thus places extra stress on a household? It makes things so that retired couples can't exactly afford a mortgage on a payment geared to barely support a couple, and they need to aim to have most debt paid off before they retire? It involves the government in keeping a record of who you were partners with and when? Sometimes you might get investigated to see if someone other than the government should be supporting you? It's all about social control? The government just applies the formulas and doesn't give a flying fuck about how fair to you the details of your life have been prior to ending up in a relationship and on payment? WELL NO SHIT, WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK SOME HETEROSEXUAL WORKING CLASS WOMEN WHAT THE SCORE IS WITH CENTRELINK AND REDUCING PAYMENTS TO DEFACTO PARTNERS BEFORE YOU WENT AHEAD AND DEMANDED THIS?
Sheesh.
Dear gay people, enjoy to your first collective step into the shallow end of mainstream relationship reality, Australian style. Mind the large smelly piles of oppression and social control just over there... and there... and there... I know it doesn't look like the oppression and social control you are used to, but trust me you'll know it as oppression once you step in it.
and some bawwwing has started, oh yes it has.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/g
Oh god I'm glad I don't work in welfare delivery any more and I don't have to put up with the whining face to face.
Being legally defined as a couple isn't just a magical wonderland of "marriage is love" and all that other sentimental shite? It involves the government taking away far more than it involves it in giving? It forces low income adults onto the charity of their resident sexual partners? It forces those sexual partners to work harder to support their family and thus places extra stress on a household? It makes things so that retired couples can't exactly afford a mortgage on a payment geared to barely support a couple, and they need to aim to have most debt paid off before they retire? It involves the government in keeping a record of who you were partners with and when? Sometimes you might get investigated to see if someone other than the government should be supporting you? It's all about social control? The government just applies the formulas and doesn't give a flying fuck about how fair to you the details of your life have been prior to ending up in a relationship and on payment? WELL NO SHIT, WHY DIDN'T YOU ASK SOME HETEROSEXUAL WORKING CLASS WOMEN WHAT THE SCORE IS WITH CENTRELINK AND REDUCING PAYMENTS TO DEFACTO PARTNERS BEFORE YOU WENT AHEAD AND DEMANDED THIS?
Sheesh.
Dear gay people, enjoy to your first collective step into the shallow end of mainstream relationship reality, Australian style. Mind the large smelly piles of oppression and social control just over there... and there... and there... I know it doesn't look like the oppression and social control you are used to, but trust me you'll know it as oppression once you step in it.
