More and more recently I've been brushing up against angry trad twitter. It's not enough for them to prefer monogamous, traditional, sexually conservative relationships, they also want *you to do it too*, and then believe you must be secretly miserable if that's your lifestyle.
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I have to imagine it's the new secular religion. A lot of lifestyle arguments end up turning into clashes between cults.
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I think you could more charitably say that the presumption is that it’s statistically unlikely that non traditional arrangements will work for you. If they do, then hooray! Good for you. But the presumption is that that’s unlikely.
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somehow i doubt many of my female partners were destined to be trad wives. does that imply scapegoating? fwiw, when someone gets into poly=bad mode w me, i usually ask them to specify if they think it's bad for me, them, society (by my actions), or society (by the example i set)
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"why aren't these conservatives liberals?"
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I don’t think that they’re arguing that people have different innate compulsions/preferences, but rather that you should be able to transcend or abstain from them. Not saying they’re right for thinking that way, but I feel like that is closer to the arguments they make.
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I sort of think it's the same distinction? That "should be able to transcend" still is in the class of "your brain is like mine" to me. I agree it's a different twist but I don't consider it meaningfully different.
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It's a weird rabbit hole to crawl down.
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I think the Steelman version of this argument is that these alternate arrangements fail 19 times out of 20, people don't know themselves well enough to make an informed decision , and generally normalizing this behaviour will encourage others to emulate it.
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