{"id":9819,"date":"2019-06-26T10:52:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9819"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:52:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T08:52:18","slug":"willow-talk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/9819\/","title":{"rendered":"Willow Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"

With great power comes great responsibility<\/a>:<\/p>\n

One-word oxymoron:\u00a0polyfidelitous.\u00a0Yep, it’s another self-justifying polyamorite. Someone hit that big red\u00a0Tim Newman\u00a0alarm button.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So let’s take a look<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Willow noted that because divorce rates are so high, it suggests that there is something left to be desired when it comes to traditional relationship structures in the modern age. She expressed that polyamory would probably be more common if couples could let go of their own fear of losing ownership their partners:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Right, but:<\/p>\n

Yesterday, on the latest episode of Red Table Talk, <\/em>18-year-old Willow Smith kept it a buck about how she really feels about monogamy, and challenged us to see it differently.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’re supposed to take relationship advice from an 18-year old? One who says:<\/p>\n

My last relationship was fueled by jealousy and blind rage; checking each other’s phones and fighting about our findings, angry at social media interactions and flirty onlookers alike. It took me a while to realize that weren’t in love, we were in possession of one another, totally and completely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Such wisdom! The irony is that Willow Smith is the daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, who have been married for 22 years. Given her father’s looks and popularity, and considering the usual longevity of Hollywood marriages, perhaps Willow should quit talking to gullible fools in the media and have a word with her parents about what makes a relationship work. Still, I guess taking relationship advice from teenagers is less harmful than promoting sex work<\/a> to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With great power comes great responsibility: One-word oxymoron:\u00a0polyfidelitous.\u00a0Yep, it’s another self-justifying polyamorite. Someone hit that big red\u00a0Tim Newman\u00a0alarm button. So let’s take a look: Willow noted that because divorce rates are so high, it suggests that there is something left … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9819"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9822,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9819\/revisions\/9822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}