Saw a post on a poly Facebook site last night -- the poster launched into something about “how critical it is for us to understand Intersectionality so that we can smash the hated Patriarchal System that oppresses us all...”
I did a double-take. For months I’ve been listening to people insist on the importance of “Intersectionality” in connection with gender studies and ethnic studies. I still don’t get it--although I have become more and more aware of how each of our non-standard differences with society affects us.
This relates back to the question of whether we are “polys by choice” (as in making a conscious political/religious decision to be poly) or whether we are “polys by birth” (as in accepting our polyness as “simply the way we are,” accepting polyness as simply a “state of our being.”)
I myself begin with my own nature--which seems to be poly. Based on that, I look outwards and grant other people the option of being polyamorous--or not. I think some people feel happier living monogamously, while others feel happier living polyamorously.
This attitude may provoke societal change--but it grows from a personal outlook, not an explicit desire to upend the world. And who knows what change it would actually bring about?
Have a relaxing weekend!
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