Poly-Baiting: Why We Need a More Inclusive LGBTQ Movement

[silver_sandals]

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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Comments

[screamingintune]

holy false equivalency

[sephystabbity]

This.

[crossfire]

I'm getting the "poly people are queers too" vibe off this article too, and I see I'm not the only one.

I think it's great to acknowledge that some LGBTQ people are poly, but I really don't think that if you're a straight and cisgendered you can appropriate our movement because you're also poly.

[rex_dart]

I'm getting the "poly people are queers too" vibe

And not just that: there's also the "it's queer people's responsibility to defend us" rather than "it's the people saying the hurtful things' responsibility to stop being douchebags".

[sparkindarkness]

This - it's blaming GBLTQ people for what the arseholes are saying AND expecting us to be a poly champion IN THE MIDDLE OF a homophobia attack - when polygamy has been mentioned in passing as just part of a huge homophobic assault.

[silver_sandals]

I'm starting to wonder if I'm reading a different article than everybody else, because I read this as very specifically talking about the slippery slope fallacy and how conservatives are getting LGB activists to play along, when really the response should be "no, it's polyphobic to compare consensual relationships between adults to bestiality."

[silver_sandals]

Can we not make this all about straight cis poly people though? I read the article as talking about queer poly people. I am a queer poly person and I wanted to talk about how much I hate that conservatives are getting LGB activists to play along with their slippery slope fallacies.

[zaure]

So queer people only matter if we're 'normal'? That's nice. We're sure as hell all expected to care about your monogamous romantic relationships and cheer those on.

[rex_dart]

On what planet are you living where queer people are treated as normal?

[mollywobbles867]

If Santorum asked me that question or when I was in the audience, I'd say "Your Bible says it is."

[stalkedbychibis]

That sounds like a fabulous response.

[colliedlight]

This sounds really similar to asexuals trying to appropriate lgbt issues tbh.