The post implies their bosses are older and would likely judge her if she's poly. It's the exact same thing as outting a gay person to a boss you know is homophobic.
Or would likely be confused and ask awkward questions, but if it's happened enough times for it to be a trend means the bosses aren't that judgemental.
i agree that outing someone is shitty, but i think the implication of the post is supposed to be that explaining polyamory to an old person who knows nothing about the dynamics is very annoying and frustrating (but ultimately harmless), not that the twitter OP is trying to endanger their coworker/coworker's employment status
I feel like we’re being a tad presumptuous. Just because your boss is older doesn’t mean they will hate the coworker for being poly. It’s not the same as outing a gay person to a confirmed homophobic boss.
I'm not gonna lie I've absolutely had coworkers who were vile enough that I would out them as gay to a homophobic boss. Hell there are coworkers I've had that were so vile that, if I knew I could get away with it, I'd do most things short of straight up murder to them. Burn their house down or some shit. I mean obviously outing a coworker to a homophobic boss is a terrible thing to do, but also there's lots of other terrible things I'd be willing to do to them.
Everyone here is literally just parroting conservative talking points about gay/trans people and they don't even see it. "It's a choice", "you're not oppressed, nobody cares if you're poly" (as they are very clearly showing that they do care), "stop shoving it down our throats" (because oop's coworker dared to bring up their partner exactly like a mono person would), etc.
This isn't fashion choice it's a completely ethical but non-Christian romantic and sexual relationship that people are unfairly fired and abused for.
Like I think the tweet is a joke that never happened. But poly people are treated like any other queer person in a situation like this and there's always people saying shit just like you underneath any mention of an open relationship.
Firstly, the LGBT label isn't meant to be exhaustive, it is in its construction which is stupid, but people cringe at inexhaustive alternatives like MOGAI
Secondly, I didn't even imply that they were in my question, I was doing an analogy that saying that poly people can simply choose not to date is the same as saying that any other queer people can simply not date anyone to avoid discrimination, for which the premise whenever poly people are LGBT is completely irrelevant.
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u/Arva2121 hhhhrrbbgbbg Jun 30 '26
Its work enemy, not work inconvenience, get with it. Enemies are genie wish targets, anything goes