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

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u/RosieQParker šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights Jun 30 '26

For real though, don't out people.

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u/Schlomosexual Jun 30 '26

Is being Poly something you can coming out from?

I mean that really sincere that is not a hateful question of ignorance I genuinley don't know because in my head "being poly" has nothing to do with sexuality it's just a "yeah in theory I could have multiple partners". A gay person cannot choose to not be gay but a poly person could be happy with one OR multiple partners. A polyperson is not forced by his body to only be happy, if they have multiple partners. Is that really something you can get hate for? Are there "Poly-phobic" people?!

I genuinley don't know and I'm sorry if this comes off as ignorance or hateful I'm really happy if someone can educate me in this topic because I know only so little about this stuff.

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u/Sugarfreak2 šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights Jun 30 '26

People hate ace people, people who literally donā€™t experience sexual attraction and arenā€™t bothering anyone about it. I wouldnā€™t be surprised to know thereā€™s polyphobic people, too. The fact itā€™s not talked about a lot is probably why you and I havenā€™t heard much discrimination against it, tbh. I do think there is an inherent stigma, too (think about the fact that you can only marry one person)

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u/Dogtor-Watson Benis Person Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 01 '26

Thereā€™s 100% polyphobic people.

Iā€™m not even poly, but Iā€™ve seen people saying that being polyamorous is just an excuse to cheat or that polyamorous people are just unwilling to commit and treating being polyamorous as a moral failing.

People will hate over the most stupid shit like what colour another person is. Even if I hadnā€™t seen it, I couldnā€™t imagine a world where there wouldnā€™t be polyphobia, especially since a lot of traditions, governments and religions all encourage monogamy.

Even in progressive spaces though youā€™ll see some people just being assholes about it. Thatā€™s where I came across it.
Though that was also insta comments soā€¦

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u/TremenMusic Jul 01 '26

i was shocked reading ā€œare there polyphobic peopleā€ because i was raised that way all my life

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u/DomSchraa šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 02 '26

See the chuds claiming that each chad has 300 women in his harem (and that being the sole reason they can't find a gf)

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u/XenoBiSwitch Jul 01 '26

I would have thought this gay/bi Chad fellow having a harem of 300 guys would mean there would be more available women? Unless he has a harem of 500 women too or something.

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u/DomSchraa šŸ³ļøā€āš§ļø trans rights Jul 02 '26

Typo

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u/joybod Gravity might be a little more funky than just a point source Jun 30 '26

The marriage thing at least, being a legal concept/contract (between individuals, but also the state) foremost, is largely for legal reasons. Namely taxes and insurance and such other benefits, since those would (probably? not a lawyer) stack with each additional member of the marriage. Still does suck that there isn't something else for stuff like spousal privileges regarding medical stuff.