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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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/ 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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Cold November Eddie @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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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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