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- From: dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley)
- Newsgroups: alt.romance,alt.polyamory
- Subject: Re: Polyamory again (was Re: last night...)
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:33:18 GMT
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- In article <1k446p$of6@agate.berkeley.edu> cascio@garnet.berkeley.edu (Jamais Cascio) writes:
- >In article <1k42jsINN1t0@bHARs12c.bnr.co.uk> dswt@bnr.co.uk (Stewart Tansley) writes:
- >[regarding non-monogamy/polyamory]
- >>
- >>It's a great ideal, but like all the others, it'll never come to pass. Not
- >>while we're human anyway...
- >>
- >Ahem. Please insert "for me" after the "never come to pass".
-
- Yep yep yep. No probs. Just a lazy typist. :-)
-
- I would also remove the gross generalisation "while we're human" too.
- (I got carried away!)
-
- >
- >There are lots of people out there who could not live in such a
- >relationship-- fine. We're all different.
-
- Agreed. Exactly.
-
- >
- >The point Jon was trying to make earlier (I believe) and the point
- >that many of us in non-monogamous relationships want to make is
- >that our (Western) society needs to be more tolerant and accepting
- >of non-traditional relationships. Admittedly, there aren't roving
- >bands of skinheads out "polyamorite bashing" but there is enough
- >verbal hassling that one can easily begin to get paranoid...
-
- I have this general problem with "minority interest groups" like polyamory
- fans, etc.: *I* genuinely *don't* feel lacking in tolerance or acceptance of
- unusual views or practices (compared with my local, cultural, family,
- personal -- or whatever -- norm). I have great difficulty in trying to
- understand why others do.
-
- You have nothing to fear from me -- from some in my social/cultural group,
- yes. But not from me. I can't answer for them.
-
- Disclaimer in every post time? :-) "BTW, Stewart does not speak for the World".
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