Poly-Baiting: Why We Need a More Inclusive LGBTQ Movement
by Vivienne Chen
Anti-LGBTQ campaigners have often used the issue of polyamory-or rather, a twisted media presentation of “
polygamy,” which is distinct from
ethical nonmonogamy and
polyamory-as a slippery slope argument against LGBTQ equality, particularly when it comes to marriage.
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My girlfriend (an attorney) and I have had this conversation a ton, and while we are both clearly on the side of "whatever floats your boat of adult consent," it's puzzling if not downright impossible by current legal standards to figure out how these things would work if poly relationships were given legal status.
Obviously not against it, but it is complicated as fuck.
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But yet, it's always held up as better than poly relationships in western society, and at the most, it has exactly the same history of oppression of women.
Maybe people have to realise that throughout history, almost everything has been about the oppression of women because society has always been (and continues to be) deeply misogynistic. It's not about who marries who, or how many people are involved. It's about misogyny.
So...I ask, why is that 'traditional two person marriage' doesn't get the scorn heaped on it by feminists as does poly?
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*woman who doesn't want to get married, people are still sexist jerks about it*
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In January 2004, Jeffs expelled a group of 20 men from Colorado City, including the mayor, and reassigned their wives and children to other men in the community. Jeffs, like his predecessors, continued the standard FLDS and Mormon fundamentalist tenet that faithful men must follow what is known as the doctrine of "Celestial Marriage" or plural marriage in order to attain the highest degree of Exaltation in the afterlife. Jeffs specifically taught that a devoted church member is expected to have at least three wives in order to get into heaven, and the more wives a man has, the closer he is to heaven.[17] Former church members claim that Jeffs himself has seventy wives.Assigning wives? Seventy wives, some of whom were in their early teens when he married them? Yeah, that's some creepy shit. This is not the exact same story as monogamous marriage in ( ... )
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Until the imma be prejudiced as fuck toward an institution largely abused by men, yes.
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isn't that also an institution largely abused by men
great to know if i as a lesbian wanna marry two women that's misogynist
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I'm currently in a het relationship, so that's as much as I'll chime in on that aspect, but overall I disagree with your position because of these reasons, though no, I don't think you are anti-woman.
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