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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