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In reply to the discussion: Polymarriage deserves a defense [View all]JackInGreen
(2,975 posts)we need to set a better example and be a bit more out and outrageously loud about who we are and what we mean we when talk about polymatrimonial matters.
It seems the only way to address it as a rights issue is to say "This isn't related to SSM at all, and I'm not talking about it because it just received a nod from the SCOTUS and I dissociate myself fully from the same sex marriage struggle in this context....so let me talk to you about poly' and pray gods that someone doesn't think you're a right wing plant or worse.
Best idea I think: Keep talking about it. Deal with the rejection. Talk about it some more. Put our lives so in everyones faces that they can't lie anymore about who we are.
We're going to run into hate from all sides. For the longest time we were the 'disgusting alternatives' that SSM could lead to and now that that's been settled we're going to get nothing but hostility for who we love and how, we're going to hear how we're misogynists, we're perverts, we're destroying everything they've fought for. I keep hearing the same arguments I'd fight against from the right about SSM coming from the left about poly. It's nauseating, but so was the birth of any rights struggle.