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Why can't people have opinions on language?
Aesthetic preferences are valid.
Sending up the @eigenrobot signal here. Halphttps://twitter.com/drethelin/status/1189196915096903681 …
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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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Replying to @MorlockP @drethelin and
The other terms you mentioned are not, in fact, the exact same thing. Mistress does not equal ... whatever the poly kids call it today. The fact is, there aren't good terms for it, so the nerds invented some pretty awful terms to meet their needs, as nerds are wont to do.
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP and
the even younger kids would just eyeroll and say "ugh, so cringe" which i think captures it pretty well
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Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP and
just finishing the quillette article, and in fact he seems to be calling for tradgenerates to save poly from the geodesic dome-dwellers currently consigning its reputation to cringeville. alas, gentrification is probably pretty unlikely.
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @MorlockP and
"tradgenerates" - I should put that in my bio
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Replying to @random_eddie @mr_archenemy and
"All of us here pursue traditional virtue but have some degenerate weakness, which itself is pretty trad." More seriously I think polyamory as a community is one of the worst forms of non-monogamy for serious relationships because it is a stable state of unstable relationships.
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Replying to @orthonormalist @random_eddie and
I think there are healthy ways to practice it, but they are more casual. I think assigning moral value to it as a preferred outcome is a trap. Don't do things that endanger your nuclear family or it's future. If you want to court other people, well, just don't have a parade.
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fwiw, I don't find drethelin 's poly intellectually upsetting because he is young, rationalist, etc., and does not try to justify it in the context of western civilization I find your defense upsetting (no harm to our friendship, tho) because by trying to justify it in terms of
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Replying to @MorlockP @orthonormalist and
western civ, tradition, healthy behavior, etc. I see you as attacking those norms in a way that he is not remotely doing - ideological entryism, of a sort. Compare to how "I practice magic" is less threatening to western civ than "God is female and Jesus is her son" is.
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Replying to @MorlockP @random_eddie and
That's fair. I think I'm trying to make two separate statements. There are near and far historical patterns that have less empirical negative outcomes for marriage norm violations than poly.
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