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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 14. July 6 1981

[Introduction]

This society uses all its resources to force people into a pattern of personal relations which one day will be seen to have been restrictive and bad for all its members. The education system, the courts, the framework of employment and unemployment, religion, the taxation structure, the politicians, the media, housing arrangements, a network of popular prejudice, and even the so called Human Rights Commission all support and sustain that key and sacred institution, the nuclear family.

Although it gives most men certain paltry privileges, and it especially oppresses women, the family is an institution which oppresses all its members. But most people somehow, with more or less pain, and with more or less ability to hide that pain from themselves, are able to be squashed into the family system. Lesbians and gay men, however, do not fit at all, and society, through discrimination and oppression, takes its revenge.