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submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/polyamory
 

Made it onto hackernews, what do people think?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll give the author this, it's definitely a thoughtful and lengthy piece. However, it does veer towards some unpleasant philosophies towards the end imo with a weird appeal to nature and introduction of pickup artist shit like sexual market value aka ranking attractiveness. Citing Aella as a source of information also put me off, she is definitely not a reliable resource. I think this one would've been better as an essay about lived experience and opinions rather than trying to tie it together into a neat bow with a half baked biological theory. People are messy and they're allowed to live messy lives, be it monogamous or polyamorus.

[–] WhiteOakBayou 8 points 2 weeks ago

People like to turn sociology into biology to make their points seem better supported.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Wow, that's a long essay. And they even asked people with experience... Often times it's people who don't really know what they're talking about, having strong opinions on other people's lives...