Middlin'-Useful Advice
Dec. 4th, 2003 10:15 amFive Geek Social Fallacies
-Not all of these apply equally to my community. Amongst the poly crowd, I suspect some are emphasized and some are lessened. Still, interesting.
-Not all of these apply equally to my community. Amongst the poly crowd, I suspect some are emphasized and some are lessened. Still, interesting.
ouch
Date: 2003-12-04 08:35 am (UTC)like, print this out and bring to my therapist ouch.
but thanks.
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Date: 2003-12-04 09:52 pm (UTC)The poly-crowd does seem to have a bad case of GSF#1 - there's always
some guy who's not cool with the fact that I don't need another guy in my bed. I can't be the only one who avoids massings of the poly crowd because there's always one of them.
Actually, most socio-political groups have some version of GSF#1 which indicates on the surface that tolerance of all beliefs/colors/practices is a great virtue, but it is commonly understood to mean tolerance of all like-minded people. Don't ask them to tolerate a conservate Republican.
Leave room for GSF #6 - all human behavior by such intelligent people is completely logical.