from an anti-poly BookFace group that claims to be ML :wtf-am-i-reading:

a lot of things have been ruined by captialism but this is such bad fucking analysis

  • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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    3 years ago

    i'm not some crusader for poly shit but lmao what a diseased take. like these people really think exclusive marital fidelity was the dominant pre-neoliberal romantic form? like we were just doing the nuclear family for all of human history? never mind that obviously the whole point is you can have a social responsibility to more than one person.

      • jabrd [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        lmao yea the bad takes always come out whenever polyamory gets brought up around here, that’s why I try to never talk about it unless someone else does first. It’s like the only topic that will get me effortposting because everyone else has :brainworms: about it

        • CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn [any]
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          3 years ago

          I kinda have the same response. It's helped remind me that some portion of leftists are very judgmental people and only don't show it because our politics guards against that by default, in most cases. But you can see it itching to come out.

          • jabrd [he/him]
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            3 years ago

            I don’t think anyone’s getting banned here

              • WALLTHERICH [comrade/them]
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                3 years ago

                i don't necessarily think it's fair to jump to "they hate polyamory and are using intentionally harsh language to signal a desire for its destruction" when you could also just like, assume the person was speaking very casually

                sometimes people jokingly refer to a thing in a semi-derogatory manner even when they approve of it or are a part of the in-group in question. for instance i'm trans but i regularly say stuff that i would find highly suspect in your average cis person, but probably not your average leftist (at least here).

          • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]
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            3 years ago

            I didn't mean it disparagingly, but I don't treat it as particularly sacred either. I think relationships under the umbrella of polyamory have been commonplace and no more or less stable and fulfilling than monogamous ones for most of human history, and only given a name and the connotations of personal identity relatively recently.