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Theirs is a “non-hierarchical” relationship, so the whole cancer thing didn’t count when there’s third-party shagging to be had:

Readers may recall the numerous polyamory ‘cope’ videos we’ve seen here over the years, in which clearly neurotic and unhappy people try to convince themselves, and us, that they’re totally cool with their chosen lifestyle miseries. Often while on the verge on tears.

we’re reaching levels of polyamory cope that shouldn’t even be possible pic.twitter.com/Cc3fdxxhwn

— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) August 8, 2023

“Imagine them there, embracing you.” Instead of that other slag.

every video I see from this polyamorous woman sounds like she’s on the verge of tears and trying to convince herself that everything’s okay pic.twitter.com/ksO9coMzk2

— pagliacci the hated 🌝 (@Slatzism) February 8, 2024

You know, I don’t think her expression quite matches her words.

And then there was the time the Guardian’s lifestyle section brought us assurances of the “really positive energy” of polyamory, despite an unfolding catalogue of unhappy complications, displays of selfishness and insecurity, and despite recurring use of the words jealousy, resentment and anger.

And we mustn’t forget the tale, via New York magazine, of the Brooklynite comedian and podcaster named Billy, his girlfriend Megan, and his girlfriend Megan’s other boyfriend Kyle. An exhaustingly self-consciousness three-way entanglement resulting in a series of grimly farcical situations that were framed, rather coyly, as “relationship difficulties.”

The above, I should add, was one of several attempts by New York magazine to portray unfaithfulness and cuckoldry, and the consequent anxieties, as the very zenith of a progressive lifestyle.

As when a betrayed husband, Michael Sonmore, boasted, unconvincingly, that he “finally became a feminist” thanks to his wife’s nocturnal sexual adventures with a chap named Paulo. A wife who was “embracing herself” and becoming empowered, we were told, while her children, aged six and three, wondered where their Mommy was.

Update:

Oh, and needless to say, further complications sometimes arise:

I’m more concerned with the dead teeth. pic.twitter.com/SlBT9hsbg4

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) September 4, 2025

So, if the rota systems, pecking orders and endless crying don’t strike you as appealing or the foundation of a happy life, that can only be because you, a filthy heathen, aren’t sufficiently sophisticated.

Just a thought.

Imagine that, the first thing that came to that low iq mind was to whip out his phone and hit record, instead of trying to render aid. pic.twitter.com/eA3OlwG7LT

— Liberacrat™️ (@Liberacrat) September 1, 2025

Consider this an open thread. Share ye links and bicker.

Miki Lorren, a one-time tomboy, “a gay woman living in the conservative south,” has some thoughts:

If you watch one thing today, make it this.

I’m so glad for this marvellous girl. But it was a close call, as she explains.

“You’re just a Tomboy” pic.twitter.com/GZgXwEDJrO

— James Dreyfus (@DreyfusJames) August 29, 2025

Note the presumption of the keen-to-enable teachers.

Ms Lorren has other thoughts worth sharing, among which this:

Well, yes. Quite. And not just weird.

“Teacher Robi,” mentioned in Ms Lorren’s video, has cropped up here before, prompting readers to marvel at her classroom lectures on “non-binary” pronoun woo, which she expects small children to internalise and regurgitate, “every single time,” regardless of physical reality, lest they find themselves being corrected by this bullying narcissist.

Teacher Robi’s low-effort wardrobe solutions, her display of I-make-bad-choices tattoos, and her disdain for anything resembling customary professionalism, also prompted comment. As did the consequent, quite vivid mismatch with her platitudes about the importance of classroom role models.

Readers who are parents are invited to imagine any other scenario in which a scruffily-dressed stranger starts talking to your 8-year-old about her sexuality, her sexual identity, while expecting that same 8-year-old to actively participate in her mental health problems.

Oh, and as Ms Lorren says in one of her other videos,

Via Darleen in the comments. Which you’re reading, of course.

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