Poly People in The News

The idea of polyamoury is starting seriously to make its way into mainstream media: 'First came traditional marriage. Then, gay marriage. Now, there's a movement combining both—simultaneously. Abby Ellin visits the next frontier of nuptials: the "triad."'

David Bowie - [The Man Who Sold the World]--- And I know that there's some strange terminology, there, and a lot of conflating the polyamorous with the neo-pagan, but that's, unfortunately, how these things work. In regards to the terms, I know poly people who would never even use the "Triad" terminology, and I know people who would find even the terms in the article "too traditionally restrictive."

In regards to the "weird lifestyle" bullshit, this is ...unfortunately how it goes. Like any other "new" thing of which the media gets ahold, there are different levels and iterations of the practice, more than are mentioned in this article. The mainstream learns about a thing and then finds some of the most extreme positions in both opposition and support, then there are the scares ("Are Polyamourous Professors Proctoring YOUR Child's Papers?!"), and then people shut up and recognise that as long as no one is "indoctrinating" children, everyone's fine.

Or, more simply “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” - Mohandis Gandhi

Cole Porter& Shirley Horn - [Love for Sale]--- So there's that.

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