Re: [UUPoly-L] Cheers to Jasmine for stellar posts to Newsweek comments

["Michael Rios" <earthfather@cfnc.us>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kit Peters

> 
> What video series is this?  If you're talking about "Family" 
> (a series that I admit to being very behind on), remember 
> that it's a sitcom.
> The situations are supposed to be absurd.
> 
perhaps, but it doesn't seem very funny to me-- just painful and awkward.  

I wouldn't mind if the situations were absurd, but the poly people in it
were at least functional.  As it is, the woman winds up sexually involved
with a man without his wife's knowledge, her partners change their sleeping
plans at the last minute by fiat, the one partner is totally unsupportive
when she tries to explore her feelings about having kids, their
communication on any number of topics is abysmal, etc.  

*None* of these people are folks I would want to let in my house, much less
be in a relationship with.  If people think that the relationship styles in
this series have anything to do with being poly, we're going to have a much
bigger backlash than we've seen so far.

Michael Rios