Amanda DamesHostBut people are threatened by polyamory because it upends all of the patriarchal, heteronormative, mononormative training that we get.
It's a perfectly fine choice, but it should not be the default socially enforced only choice, 'cause humans aren't really monogamous.
That's fine, but, like, naturally, as animals, there's no evidence suggesting that we are a monogamous species.

We choose what we need for ourselves to be happy, right? And somehow this became the default, and also anytime I as a monogamous person even imply that it's okay to be poly, a lot of people act like I'm invalidating their decision to be monogamous.
But people are threatened by polyamory because it upends all of the patriarchal, heteronormative, mononormative training that we get.
It's a perfectly fine choice, but it should not be the default socially enforced only choice, 'cause humans aren't really monogamous.
That's fine, but, like, naturally, as animals, there's no evidence suggesting that we are a monogamous species.

We choose what we need for ourselves to be happy, right? And somehow this became the default, and also anytime I as a monogamous person even imply that it's okay to be poly, a lot of people act like I'm invalidating their decision to be monogamous.
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