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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Arthur Bloom  🇺🇸

      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 …

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs added,

      Arthur Bloom  🇺🇸Verified account @j_arthur_bloom
      The language of intellectualized sex freaks is extremely unsexy, you wonder if they think about this (they probably don't because most of them are ugly), "polycule," "consensual non-monogamy" etc
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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      2/ one should not, but one can, imagine a "liason" with a "mistress", and the connotations, while wrong, are titillating. now thinking about the "secondary" in your "polycule" who runs a GURPS campaign at an MIT group house where all the characters area anthropomorphic rabbits

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      4/ I'm a libertarian. Each to their own, and polyamory should be legal. But ... yeah, @j_arthur_bloom nails it: the marketing ad copy reminds me of ads in PC magazine for 8" floppy drives.

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted KeepCalmAndDrawl

      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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      KeepCalmAndDrawl @FormerlyFormer
      Replying to @FormerlyFormer @MorlockP
      I mean, for those who enjoy transgressing taboos because it’s thrilling, getting rid of all taboos may actually be not nearly as fun *for them* Morality aside, just sayin’
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      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. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cold November Eddie

      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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      Cold November Eddie @random_eddie
      Replying to @MorlockP @j_arthur_bloom
      You'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".
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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Cold November Eddie

      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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      Cold November Eddie @random_eddie
      Replying to @random_eddie @MorlockP @j_arthur_bloom
      As usual, the easy ones to object to are the visibly freakish freaks. As usual, the visible cases aren't representative of the population. c.f. twitter
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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 29 Oct 2019

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter

      10/ 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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      Misha. Angel Investor, Photographer, Shitposter @drethelin
      Replying to @j_arthur_bloom @MorlockP
      So don’t fuck them dude not every word is designed to get you off sheesh
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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 29 Oct 2019
      Replying to @MorlockP @j_arthur_bloom

      I think your preferences over language are totally valid (and I pretty generally share them depending on deployment context etc etc) My hunch skimming is that mostly people are objecting to the characterizations of people getting mixed in :)

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