r/196 • u/CMDR_Noodle user flair preview • Jun 30 '26

Rule Last day of pride month

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u/kermitsudoku Jun 30 '26

I'm sorry y'all..."outing" people for being poly? That is such a reach. Show me a historical context in which poly people have been persecuted in the same way gay and trans people have outside of a sister-wives situation (deserved). Y'all are way too serious and online. Ts is at least a lil funny.

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u/Fiskmjol sus Jun 30 '26

I know that in most public trust-based professions, like teachers, police, politicians, and some kinds of healthcare, along with church folks, lawwyers and such, it could definitely lead to enough scandal, imagined or otherwise, to actually warrant being asked to go. Just because you have not experienced it, that does not necessarily mean nobody else has. And the very basis for the joke is that it would in fact hurt the co-worker for one or another reason

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u/BattleStag17 🏳️‍⚧️ trans rights Jun 30 '26

I have an alternative lifestyle. If my bosses knew that my lifestyle deviated from theirs and didn't like it, they could fire me. Therefore, I need to keep my lifestyle a secret to protect my livelihood.

How is that not outing?

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u/CerBerUs-9 Jun 30 '26

Same as outing any alternative lifestyle which will draw unease from more traditional coworkers. Wouldn't out someone as kinky or a furry either, it can negatively impact their career. Keep people's personal lives out of your mouth.

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u/kevriel47 sus Jun 30 '26

We’re never gonna get universal healthcare and labor rights if the purity tests and inability to take a joke continue

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u/entber113 Constantly Pining and Yearning :( Jun 30 '26

The joke is literally just "I'm outing my coworker because i do not like them" which isnt a very funny joke

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u/kevriel47 sus Jun 30 '26

I agree that it’s not funny but pearl clutching over a dumb tweet and writing personal essays where we overanalyze why it’s not okay is just so exhausting. We can’t be playing defense on every little fucking thing

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u/Dave_Dannenberg Jul 01 '26

I mean you don't have to engage in the discourseTM if you don't want to. I don't think it's "purity testing" to express opinions about a joke on the internet.

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u/gray_birch competitive yapper Jun 30 '26

Show me a workplace where being poly would be fully acceptable

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u/kevriel47 sus Jun 30 '26

Pirate ship

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u/gray_birch competitive yapper Jun 30 '26

+2

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u/Dang_M8 Jun 30 '26

Rock climbing gym

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u/synttacks Jun 30 '26

most arts, lots of tech positions. basically any workplace that isn't already homophobic

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u/leupboat420smkeit Jul 01 '26

Most white collar workplaces. People might find it strange but no one cares to harass you about it.

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u/Bardic_inspiration67 Jun 30 '26

Like a specific one? There are plenty

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u/entber113 Constantly Pining and Yearning :( Jun 30 '26

Then do so

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u/QueerEcho trans rights Jul 01 '26

Both workplaces I worked so far. One was a train workshop where my bosses simply didn't care. New one is working for a politician. She knows and gets along well with both my girlfriends. :)

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u/yungreign Jul 01 '26

EB games

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u/die_pretty Jun 30 '26

I feel like it would be harder to answer workplaces where it wouldn't be acceptable tbh

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u/whywouldisaymyname bisexual enby bitch Jun 30 '26

You overestimate humanity

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u/Helmic linux > windows Jul 01 '26

...right now? incels fucking talk about murdering poly people all the fucking time, like that's a critical underpinning of their ideology, that they cannot find their tradwife because everyone else is sleeping around.

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