jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 24 days agoRFK Jr. secretly recorded second wife during divorce and acknowledged being “polygamous”www.motherjones.comexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down17
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minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·24 days agowtf is this poly-shaming We have reasons to hate this bastard, and him not falling in line with the Church’s archaic definition of marriage isn’t one of them
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·24 days agoHe’s not “polygamous”, his wife didn’t know and he claimed he wanted to be monogamous. That’s not being poly, that’s being a cheating bastard. There’s nothing wrong with consensual polygamy. That’s not what went on here.
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·24 days agoPolyamory != polygamous
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·24 days agoYou can substitute the word in my comment and the exact same point still stands.
minus-squaresplinter@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·24 days agoThere is no poly shaming going on here. The article makes clear that: Kennedy was not poly with his ex wife. He just repeatedly cheated on her. He invoked the term to try and justify his behavior. And he is the only person here who made any moral judgement about it - he called it “wrong”.
wtf is this poly-shaming
We have reasons to hate this bastard, and him not falling in line with the Church’s archaic definition of marriage isn’t one of them
He’s not “polygamous”, his wife didn’t know and he claimed he wanted to be monogamous. That’s not being poly, that’s being a cheating bastard.
There’s nothing wrong with consensual polygamy. That’s not what went on here.
Polyamory != polygamous
You can substitute the word in my comment and the exact same point still stands.
There is no poly shaming going on here. The article makes clear that: