Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Beyond Polyamory: Other Sex and Relationship Issues

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I appreciate what Eris has emphasized.  There are so many differences
among people that a person could pick just about anything as a basis for
discrimination.
In my own experience, there's been height (as a tall kid in a small town
of short kids), as a partner in an "inter-racial" marriage (It's not fun
to have your next door neighbour spit at you, and to be unable to protect
your child from the gang of bullies encouraged by their parents), as a
woman (can't hire you; women's place is in the home... - yes, I am that
old!), as a Pagan, as a feminist, as a "left"-wing "bleeding heart
liberal"...........

When do we start to be all just human?
When do we truly accept and celebrate the "diversity" we say we value?

>From a late-blooming flower child, who was conventional in the 60's but
gradually woke up in the 80's-
Kate 
in Toronto


On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Eris Weaver wrote:
> (I would also submit that just because someone else's relationship
> boundaries are differently shaped than yours, they may not necessarily be
> "loosely drawn."  Sounds a bit like my fundamentalist Christian sister who
> thinks that because I don't belong to the same type of church that I am
> bringing up my son without morals. DIFFERENT morals or boundaries don't
> necessarily mean NO morals or boundaries!)
...<snip>.........
>............. 
> 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."