Heeb Magazine announces the 2009
Heeb 100 -- their top picks of Jewish Americans who are "young, smart and innovative." (Edited To Add: Sure, not as insightful as
The Jewish Week's 36 under 36, or the
Forward 50, each of which had the good sense to
cite hatam_soferet! but I still find this kind of index interesting
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I mean, I think it's more of a spectrum than LBGetc. identity tends to be. But there are certainly people who "identify as poly" more or less strongly, and I am in that camp. I don't want to say a whole lot more about it right here, right now, but it's one of those "no really, this explains a great deal about patterns I have experienced over my entire life" insights.
(At the same time, I do also hold that monogamy is in part a cultural inculcation, and suspect that a great many more people "could" function just as successfully in a polyamorous context if they weren't so thoroughly trained into abhorring the idea. >:-)
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And while I'd agree that cultural pressure plays a role pushing people towards monogamy, the impression that I've gotten is that, even in happily-accepting, supportive social groups, polyamory is hard. Monogamous relationships are hard, just because they involve two people with seperate brains who think in different ways. More people, more complications.
(This is also biased, of course, by the "case studies" of my friends. Of four people I know who've been involved in poly relationships, only one has gone smoothly and without horrible drama.)
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Yes. It's possible to (very roughly) divide poly people into "poly is what I do" and "poly is what I am" groupings. Some people feel very strongly one way or the other; some are sort of nebulous on it. I can't point to formal research on it, though. There's not much formal research on poly at all.
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