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trixtahThis is why, when people lazily equate polyamory with polygamy, I want to puke.
Yes, I realise it's an extreme example, but it represents the mindset of the polygamists I know of, no matter how many people want to weasel-word and say "polygamy" only means multiple marriage. That's only true in the strict anthropological sense - otherwise, there are still a whole raft of other associations with the concept, especially to do with religion.
On a tangentially-related note, Laurie R. King wrote a recent blog demanding an end to tolerance:
See, if you couldn't tell, I find polygamists personally distasteful. But if those concerned are entering into such arrangements with full awareness, the ability to get out if they want, and it is their choice, well, yes, hooray for diversity. I just wish I believed that polygamists who refuse to let the "sisterwives" touch each other had that viewpoint as well. Or that their version of God did.
Yes, I realise it's an extreme example, but it represents the mindset of the polygamists I know of, no matter how many people want to weasel-word and say "polygamy" only means multiple marriage. That's only true in the strict anthropological sense - otherwise, there are still a whole raft of other associations with the concept, especially to do with religion.
On a tangentially-related note, Laurie R. King wrote a recent blog demanding an end to tolerance:
I’m sick of tolerance. We don’t need to “tolerate” gays or blacks or Hispanics or women in politics or people in wheelchairs, any more than we need to tolerate the sky above or trees in the forest or our own left foot. They’re here, they’re as much a part of us as our left foot, they’re not going to go away, so as the old gay rights chant has it, get used to it. Instead of begrudging them their existence, “tolerating” them because the law says we have to, we need to learn to look at their differences—OUR differences—as a part of the texture of life. ...
We don’t have room for mere tolerance in this crowded world. Instead, we need to celebrate the richness of the humanity God has created. We need to turn a disbelieving eye on any thug who uses God as an excuse for his actions.
See, if you couldn't tell, I find polygamists personally distasteful. But if those concerned are entering into such arrangements with full awareness, the ability to get out if they want, and it is their choice, well, yes, hooray for diversity. I just wish I believed that polygamists who refuse to let the "sisterwives" touch each other had that viewpoint as well. Or that their version of God did.
