Re: [UUPoly-L] Identity Polytics.

["Catherine Deville" <catdeville@cox.net>]

Kelly said: 

<<A Web search quickly reveals I did not coin the term polyamorist. A
handful of the many examples that precede my usage include:>>

Not to be snitty here, Kelly, but if you had actually read my post you would
have seen that I did the same search and referred to pretty much the same
group of links:

You said: 
<<The "Polyamorist Political Action Committee" at 
http://www.liberated.net/polyamoristpac/ .>>

And, as I noted " There *was* a Polyamorist PAC that tried to organize
sometime between 1998-2002 (their web site
http://www.liberated.net/polyamoristpac/ says that they're currently
inactive) but who I've never even heard of until now."

You said:
<<The Polyamory Society uses the term polyamorist at 
http://www.polyamorysociety.org/ .>>

And as I noted: 
" And whoever set up the html for the Polyamory Society's web pages seems to
have used it in the Title line on the "Self Improvement Program" of their
web pages, even though the term doesn't appear in the title of that section
nor, as far as my search could find, in any of the articles themselves."

You said:
<<There's an author who wants to interview people for a book on
"polyamorist" women at http://www.freewebs.com/polylapachet/ .

There's a Yahoo group for polyamorists in the Chico, CA area that calls 
themselves "Chico Polyamorist's Fellowship" at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ChicoPoly/?tab=s .

Individual polyamorous persons use the term "polyamorist" to describe 
themselves. Besides some on this list see http://joyfulgrl.diaryland.com/
.>>

And I said: 
"There are a couple of individual blogs that seem to use the term to just
generally mean a polyamorous person."

You said:
<<Even opponents of polyamory also use the term. Some Christian--and I use
the term Christian loosely--opponents of polyamory talk about the emergence
of a "polyamorist" movement dedicated to "polyamorist rights" at 
http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/1/92006e.asp .>>

And I pointed out: 
" And then there are the anti-polyamorist web sites, primarily Christian
Right hate & fear sites that are using the term much like they use the "gay
agenda" as a scare tactic.  (Oh, and OMG! A thread on Fox's Hannity web site
- RUN!)"

So, had you read the entire post, you could have saved yourself repeating
the statements that I had already made when I asked you *WHO* was "labeling"
you as a polyamorist?