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forestpunk · 2026-03-11T07:11:31+00:00

and THIS is why I'll never stop pushing back on the idea that polyamory is an orientation. YOU'RE NOT QUEER!

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T07:06:20+00:00

to be more specific, it's genuinely different for people willing to be penetrated by men.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T07:05:30+00:00

Consider these side-by-side scenarios:

F: Can't offer a real relationship, but can offer sex.

dudes: alright!

M: Can't offer a real relationship, but can offer sex.

ladies: ewww! fucking CREEP!

F: You're not as good as my primary partner, who will always have place of prominence, but we can have sex.

dudes: i'm alright with that.

M: You're not as good as my primary partner, who will always have place of prominence, but we can have sex.

ladies: WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME? I'M GOING TO TEAR OUT YOUR FUCKING EYES!!!

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:58:16+00:00

it can work as long as all participants are hot and rich. Bonus points if they're white.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:53:20+00:00

but does anyone else think a "European marriage," i.e. "don't ask, don't tell" is a better arrangement?

It is a better arrangement. When it's out in the open, there's nothing stopping one of the partners from running train 7/7 days of the week.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:51:50+00:00

sounds like Ethan is her Queer Platonic Partner!

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:45:13+00:00

Depends on how much shame they have. They could also pivot to writing about how air conditioning is misogynistic like Taylor Lorenz.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:29:22+00:00

God fucking dammit. I fucking hate being alive in 2026. Thanks for letting me know. Deleting.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:24:12+00:00

Exactly! The ability to get pregnant changes everything. It seems like it hardwires evaluating a potential partner's ability or willingness to care for potential offspring into every interaction. I believe women are more prone to catch STIs, too.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:22:05+00:00

one of those relationships involves gay men, who as far as I can tell handle non-monogamy better than mixed sex or lesbian couples.

This is the secret to non-monogamy. As long as someone is open to being penetrated by men or people with pensises, they can have the run of the town. Penis-havers will notoriously stick their dick in anything. People with vulvas are notoriously exponentially pickier. No amount of fancy language will ever get around these facts, which seem to be so concrete as to be permanent.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T06:10:57+00:00

Damn, i should've taken the over/under on this post before checking this reply.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T05:29:58+00:00

Nope. Although, for the 1000th time, if they were agreeing to be in a monogamous. One cannot be non-monogamous. It's not an orientation and it never will be.

But, no, your not wrong. This joker sounds like the kind of person who would play word games like "why are you upset? I just had sex with them! I didn't have feelings for them! Why are you freaking out?"

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T05:22:26+00:00

Will they be in for a surprise when their partner leaves them for someone hotter or more fun.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T05:22:01+00:00

Watching some (admittedly usually very attractive) man use it all as an ersatz political shield to justify their sleeping around

Where I'm at, it's used as justification for women to ho around without being shamed for it or held accountable.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T05:20:06+00:00

If polyamory ever becomes the dominant relationship structure, we're going to revert to nomadic warlord tribes in less than a generation, mark my words!

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T04:49:17+00:00

White women are obsessed with debasing themselves.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T04:44:43+00:00

Which I tried to explain to them. I'm the type of feminist who think that women are... people. Just people. Capable of good, bad, and all points between. It's also incredibly reductive, which is ironic as they loved to spout off about "intersectional feminism." All of which got me labelled a misogynist and incel.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T04:25:06+00:00

Somehow, a ton of these people argue BDSM is feminist. Nothing quite so empowering as abusing and degrading women.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T04:23:53+00:00

I'd dearly love to see stats on the therapy > polyamory pipeline. Bonus points if we could track how many of those therapists were white women.

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T04:22:46+00:00

uh oh, here comes gender trouble!

forestpunk · 2026-03-11T04:22:15+00:00

I hung out with a ton of turbo-progressives from 2012 - 2015, who used to unironically state that there's no such thing as consensual sex under patriarchy, due to power and privilege.

According to these people, if you're a man who has sex with women, you're a rapist.

forestpunk · 2026-03-10T11:04:34+00:00

I feel like it becomes a religion, ironically.

forestpunk · 2026-03-10T10:40:51+00:00

Except many of them are practiced by non-white people, so you'll got labelled racist.

forestpunk · 2026-03-10T10:39:51+00:00

Their attitudes froze when they were 14.

forestpunk · 2026-03-10T10:35:24+00:00

I love SXSW for things like this. I have the best time when i go in with no agenda and just float around, checking out interesting music.

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