Polyamory Part 2

 Oh my god I'm annoyed. I don't know what has caused the recent rise in anti-polyamorous sentiment, but it's driving me crazy, because it's so dumb and is the exact same as homophobia. Like, get over yourself? There's no difference, you just can't handle how woke the world is and are choosing a random group to direct all your frustrations at. And you can't separate stereotypes from reality.

I feel like when lots of these people imagine polyamorous relationships, they picture one of these things:

1. An Arabic/African harem, where one man has multiple wives or concubines. This is called polygyny.

2. One of those TikTok swingers who do kink in public. This is one genre of people, in the same way that there are weird gay, lesbian, bi, or trans people who practice fetishes in public.

3. A man who's wife isn't satisfied with him sexually. This is an open relationship.

These are stereotypes. It doesn't mean anything. If someone loves 2 or more people... that's that. People framing their hatred as "protecting women" (including the United Nations, mind you) is just dumb and immature. It's like saying you don't think gay marriage should be legal because gay people can be groomers. Also... polygyny is already legal in those countries of your concern. Letting people in other countries love people they want to is not hurting anyone.

When we get into the actual details, polyamorous marriage legality would be a huge problem for housing, economics, paperwork, blah blah blah. That makes sense. But the general consensus doesn't.

To be specific, I'm not talking about the average person. Obviously they're gonna think marrying multiple people is greedy or a fetish, in the same way the average person on the street probably thinks bisexuals are confused. I mean these LGBT people online who are just spewing needless hate hidden behind critiques of capitalism.

It's so dumb. I even just saw someone say that they don't respect it because "being gay isn't a choice, polyamory is!!!"... like... do you... have a brain? Having sex with multiple people is a choice. Having sex with anyone is a choice. Having gay sex is a choice. Being ATTRACTED to a man as a man is not a choice. Being ATTRACTED to multiple people at once is not a choice. Polyamory is not just threesomes, in the same way homosexuality is not just gay sex??? I don't understand how people justify this. I think just because most people don't know any polyamorous people, they think it's one of those things they're just allowed to shit talk, like Muslim or Jewish people. It's wrong, and I don't see how you don't just... automatically apply the same logic to polyamorous people that you do for any other queer people. Or just... people.