Here's a deep question: what kind of relationship is most ideal for free individuals? If classical liberalism is fundamentally all about personal agency for everyone then it should follow that a libertarian and anyone wholly concerned with freedom would be unhappy with a relationship that exists on a master/slave basis. This sounds obvious, but is it? Many traditional concepts of relationships and marriage depend on subservience and also on the male public world/ female domestic world roles. If this upsetting to you as a conservative female activist, pause and think that under some of these older roles, you would most probably not be an activist of any sort. It is also worth noting the long and noble history of radical libertarians in the 19th century fighting these norms , specifically marriage that absorbed women as legal entities and condoned rape. I think that an activist, a person who is really trying to better the world, seeks a companion as an equal. It
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