Re: [UUPoly-L] UUPoly-L Digest, Vol 24, Issue 8

["kit of the furry heads" <rawk.yer.socks.off@gmail.com>]

Timothy wrote to Valerie:



> After reading your livejournal entry posting on this case, I will have to
> inform you that there is no reason to think this situation is even about
> polyamory.


Not having read the LJ post, I don't have the luxury of understanding why
you don't see this situation as having relevance to the polyamory community.

When my ex-wife hired an attorney is the summer of 1993 to gain custody of
> our eleven year old son Matthew, she certainly knew that a live-in
> boyfriend
> could work against her.  That's why she asked her father for $4000.00 for
> an
> across-state-lines body snatch.


This still sounds like a case of sexual freedom: she was less likely to gain
custody of the child because she was cohabitating with an unmarried
partner.

We do have other things to think about, besides worrying about poly folk who
> did not learn anything from April Divilbiss.  The rights of seven year old
> girls in Uganda not to have more than one reconstructive surgery operation
> on their vaginas for one thing.


Because, you know, Western feminists' work on female circumcision hasn't
been fairly racist...

--K