Etiquette Questions
Points and questions for discussion:
1) It is at best impolite to date or sleep with your good friends' exes.
( Common teen-mag wisdom says )
1) It is at best impolite to date or sleep with your good friends' exes.
( Common teen-mag wisdom says )
So true. So wrong, I think. I've had many romances and one marriage come and go, and the same people have bolstered me, made me tea, and brought me tissues through all of them. It's weird that our society sees my relationship with them as something that should, somehow, be less valuable to me than my relationship with whomever I'm sharing a bed with.
Of course, society does not assume that one's romantic partners change with the frequency with which mine seem to. But this too is a faulty assumption in many cases.
With regard to voting, and asking questions, some people seemed to think that it is o.k. to ask one's friends, if one is oneself unsure of how to vote. I think this is a silly way to figure out how to vote and steers the discussion away from the election issues towards the people being elected. Ask me what I think about Mr. Candidate's views on education, health care, immigration, subsidized housing; offer me information on Ms. Wannabeinparliament's activities in support of increasing the number of bike lanes in Toronto, sure. I'll cheerfully share my views, and if you (this is the third-person-general "you") trust my research and share my views, you may well arrive at the same place I've arrived at, and vote the same way. But if you ask me how I'm going to vote, I'll either bristle or answer "Bloc."
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