Re: [UUPoly-L] Oh no! Another poly/swinger post!

[John Ullman <jsu627@earthlink.net>]

Laura Stewart wrote:           (On 08:45 PM 12/4/2006)
> I find your post to be using the term "Swinger" essentially as a slur,
> because you're essentially defining the term as applying to all of
> these negative things, not actually to some more identity-related item
> like "commitment, emotional depth, romantic connection, communication,
> honesty, casual sex or their opposites."

I felt Joanie was careful to make it clear that, in general, she had 
no problem with people who did traditional swinging, but that it 
didn't serve her needs very well, and then she listed the reasons. My 
experience of Joanie is that the only place she commonly uses slurs 
is in musical notation.

John U