angrystego

Yep, that's the original I was reacting to.

Probably didn't notice it doesn't say "equals". It's easy to overlook the wavy part.

There are many more dumb assholes than rapists. I believe people who do this just for fun, not for rape, do exist. It's quite terrible anyway.

This is more difficult. Not everyone who's pro-choice thinks an unborn child is not a child. The child/fetus thing is arbitrary and can be discussed forever. Pro-choice people agree that it shouldn't limit rights of women in any case, though.

Yep, that's right!

It might put California on the track to surviving Trump's destruction and becoming a civilized country opposed to Putin, unlike other US states.

Just to be clear, I see polygamy as bad only because of the women oppression aspect. But the world is a big place and history is long, so I wouldn't be surprised if at some point there was some system that allowed for polygamy without oppressing women. Mentioning mormons - don't you think they can be seen as another weird different group - and therefore be also object of xenophobia? Notice I intentionally didn't use the word racism, what I mean is just the sentiment that people doing things differently than my group must be deadly wrong.

I think normalizing having more partners even in a stable relationship with one partner would make it much easier to actually talk to your partner and discuss it openly, because the percentage of partners that see it as something terribly wrong would be much lower and people wouldn't feel like speaking about such things is risky. That would reduce the need for cheating, although it wouldn't make it disappear (as it's not the only cause, as someone's correctly pointed out).

I agree with the part that it's really up to people. I don't agree it's ok to want people to hide their relarionships. And they do have to hide them or face problems. People who decide to live in uncommon relationships are a target for others. They often get questioned uncomfortably even by rather liberal people and attacked and bullied by conservative ones. It's really hard to do this openly. In such circumstances, I do think it's oppression. It's also not really about me. But I have eyes and empathy.

I thought the small one was a parasite - wanting the sugar. It would work as a joke with specific taxa.

But the probability you get wed to a guy who sets you aside because bored and then marries your girlfriend out of pure respect to you is very low.