• vaguerant@fedia.io
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    9 hours ago

    That is not how a bastard works. To be clear, all of this is archaic, I’m not actually calling anybody a bastard, but the definition of bastard is “a child born to parents who are not married to each other.” He matches that definition because his parents were never married.

    Affairs don’t come into it, it’s just some old bullshit cultural and religious ideals about which types of relationships (just the one: heterosexual marriages) children are “supposed” to be born into.

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      1 hour ago

      Were his parents not married? The statement above doesn’t say that, just that she had him prior to her current marriage. People can be married multiple times.

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        23 minutes ago

        Yeah, he was reportedly conceived in a casual encounter. His parents weren’t in an ongoing relationship and the father didn’t remain very involved in either of their lives.