Polyamory is not just sleeping around, I think I'm triggered now
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @default_friend
Sorry twitter only gives me so many characters I know this but from an outside perspective that’s how it looks Or just like a “wild and crazy lifestyle” From a Conventional conservative POV
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Replying to @liminal_warmth @default_friend
Sure from an outside perspective, but I'm here from an experienced inside perspective to tell you that's not what's going on and that is a harmful misconception/stereotype. Country music is not about polyamory. I don't think I've ever heard any song that supports my lifestyle.
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @default_friend
Aella you’re missing my point I agree with you about it being a stigmatized class Comparing it to being gay implies a more significant level of social censure and stigma than it appears to actually receive though People aren’t viscerally squicked out by it in the same way
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It's quite possible that in some parts of the Red Tribe being gay is considered worse than being poly, but I don't think Westboro rednecks are reading DF's substack. And in many other places, as Aella notes, poly people get the sort of hate gays got a generation or two ago.
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Wait for real??? Two generations ago you had to keep your gay relationship under wraps or you’d lose your job and face threats, violence, and ostracism and people actually carried these threats out and murdered people Gay people were associated with child molestors
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I mean yes. Exactly this, for poly people today. The only thing is I don't think poly ppl get murdered really, likely because it's much less obvious in public that someone is poly, whereas it's more obvious for gays
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Replying to @Aella_Girl @liminal_warmth and
I feel safe being open about polyamory today but I remember I went to an atheist meetup back in idaho and one of the guys there was poly - I figured it out based on subtle hints in the conversation - and he told me he was too scared to come out to anybody
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Huh. I did not realize there was this much stigma around it. I’ve always sort of shrugged and been like “that’s cool.” I’ve read some of the books. Not sure if it would work for me or not. Maybe. But did not imagine there was so much censure.
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One thing to look at is the reaction to Content Cop dude on youtube who came out as allowing his gf to have an onlyfans. Not even a super explicit onlyfans! Not even a relationship with another dude. but he got raked over the coals, his fans turned on him
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That says more about his audience than him I think
Did he mostly have conservative/right/religious audience? They would probably also not have been happy if he came out as gay and said his gf was a beard1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
He didn't make any conservative content before this iirc, he did stupid vulgar skits and funny takedowns of other youtubers. I'd be surprised if there was any significant conservative bent to his audience. It was probably younger and male.
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