Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues | <– Date –> <– Thread –> |
From: Deb Smyre (dsmyreprimenet.com) | |
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 08:43:20 -0600 (MDT) |
At 12:21 AM 10/25/1999 -0500, Eris Weaver wrote: > >Thanks! After I fired this off I worried that I had worded in incorrectly >in an accusatory or judgemental way, and from your response it seems that I >did not. Frankly, it was accusatory and downright rude. Writing in CAPS WITH MULTIPLE EXCLAMATION POINTS!! always strikes me as hostile. But, I try to make my points in as straight- forward a manner as possible, despite other's apparent lack of netiquette. >Deb wrote: >> I think we might assume that if enough people aren't >> comfortable with polyamory as a lifestyle, then this >> fact alone could upset the balance of community. > >Again , this sounds too much to me like the arguments I hear against >homosexuality, particularly the whole marriage question; "A lot of us are >uncomfortable with it, so you don't get to do it." Unless we're playing charades, I don't see how it's helpful to say the discussion "sounds like" something else. It's not something else. It is what it is. It would be nice to stick to the topic without having one's opinions compared to someone's fundamentalist Christian relatives or to a homophobe. Frankly, it weakens any pro-polyamory argument to always cry "foul" or "discrimination" when someone simply disagrees with it. Name-calling, no matter how indirect, shuts down discussions. Deb
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Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues Deb Smyre, October 24 1999
- Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues Eris Weaver, October 24 1999
- Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues Deb Smyre, October 25 1999
- Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues Stuart Staniford-Chen, October 25 1999
- Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues kchung, October 25 1999
- Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues Deb Smyre, October 25 1999
- Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues Stuart Staniford-Chen, October 25 1999
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