Very similarly, it's dangerous to express any problems with a lifestyle that the world holds stigma against. In reality, every single lifestyle holds problems; stigma is just the line between which problems get justified and which are interpreted as signs of deep failure. 2/
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I think this is often why persecuted subcultures get extremely sensitive to people pointing out actual flaws - they've learned that people use the flaws as a weapon, and don't trust anyone making a move towards it. This is unhelpful for everyone, and leads to stuff like -
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Everyone getting really touchy if you try to talk about stuff like race and crime. The answer to this is to stop using flaws as evidence of failure or an excuse to judge. Your identity and lifestyle are riddled with "flaws" too, you're probably just much more blind to them.
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It's the kind of social hypothesis that generally gets explored in sci-fi novels (surely there are some about it already).
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The recent TV series inspired by Brave New World had some of this, with monogamy and privacy treated as social sins. But it was only so-so.
@JCareyAuthor's excellent Kushiel series has “love as thou wilt“ as a social norm, but no stigma against monogamy.
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Aldous Huxley was ahead of his time in wrighting "Brave New World" - tis a shame that people always flock to 1984 instead...
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Yes, sir! People think 1984 was about the future when it was actually about Stalinism. Brave New World, from 1931, was about the future.
@zeynep argues Huxley is the only mythology that touches 21st century problems - and I agree with her. Nice!
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Aella, have you hard of http://Tinyletter.com ? I think your longer texts would look nice there, also.
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This is exactly why I’ve started focusing on using terms like “ethical relationship styles” as a broad category rather than “polyamorous” or “nonmonogamy” — Relationships are about agreements, not defaults. I wonder if there’s an corollary to the other issues you’re describing.
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See early on in Star Trek TOS, "Wolf in the Fold."pic.twitter.com/CZWxJIOowe
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