3/ besides running the GURP campaign her hobbies include making pins with clever puns for the Arisia science fiction convention, fermenting vegetables in the basement of her Somerville group house to make kimchi, and encouraging people to "come out" as poly.
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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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8/ not so much "missing", as "not addressing" JAB and I are both specifically talking about one set ...and it's not the set you're talking about. My experience of poly is people who talk about it ENDLESSLY.https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1189195755891896322 …
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Eddie, Son of Richard @random_eddieReplying to @MorlockP @j_arthur_bloomYou're missing an excluded middle here. People who a) have consensual, non-monogamous relationships (so there's nothing "on the sly" about it) but b) don't make a big deal about calling their relationships "consensual, non-monogamous".3 replies 0 retweets 7 likesShow this thread -
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9/ Well, sure. Selection bias. But it's legitimate to judge those who select into set X, and not address those who do not.https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1189196296688734208 …
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10/ Why can't people have opinions on language? Aesthetic preferences are valid. Sending up the
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“My aesthetic preferences to call outgroup stupid poopooheads are totally valid and you’re not allowed to be annoyed by that”
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My thread is about the TERMINOLOGY. I specifically said that other terms for the EXACT SAME THING were sexy.
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I'm not criticizing poly in this thread; I'm criticizing the nerd tendency to nail down all the terms, create taxonomies, debate things endlessly, etc., which is kind of the antithesis to the creative ambiguity that human relationships often thrive on.
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I don’t know what you think you’re doing but you literally started by retweeting someone talking about “intellectualized sex freaks” so maybe rethink how you “don’t criticize” someone.
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so RTs = endorsement? or perhaps RT + 10 tweet thread explaining EXACTLY WHAT MY POINT IS RE LANGUAGE CHOICE = my point? Interesting
@random_eddie , who is a big defender of poly, entirely understood my point and is engaging with it well, w/o assuming it's an anti poly rant1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - Show replies
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