it's all so tiresome, but at least the conventional "mistress", "mé·nage à trois", etc have good sexy marketing. All the poly terms remind me of all the poly people I've worked with at startups: doughy, pale, wearing nerd t-shirts and lank long hairhttps://twitter.com/j_arthur_bloom/status/1189191770137092096 …
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4/ I'm a libertarian. Each to their own, and polyamory should be legal. But ... yeah,
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5/ btw, footnote: I've worked at several MIT area startups and met dozens of poly people there. All of the "mean", "unrepresentative" examples above are literally drawn from real life.
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6/ Indeed. An "assignation" on the sly seems far more titillating than using Google calendars to coordinate with your wife what night she's boning with Pedro so that you can take Melinda to the folk dance.https://twitter.com/FormerlyFormer/status/1189194682775068681 …
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7/ Although - DAMNIT ! - I can't let this go without being fair to my poly acquaintances and steelmanning it. They'd argue "but it's not ABOUT titillation or sex - it's about multiple fulfilling relationships!" sigh
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Being immersed in a fantasy world, making pickles in one's basement, oh the horror! You haven't, by any chance, heard the saying about people living in glass houses? :-D
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I strongly suspect I have some mutual friends with this person.
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LOL hope I didn't offend, btw I actively liked many of these people ; just a comment on aesthetics, word choice, etc.
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