{"id":572,"date":"2011-08-28T08:49:33","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/2011\/08\/28\/the-anti-polyamory-press-is-at-it-again\/"},"modified":"2011-08-28T08:49:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:49:33","slug":"the-anti-polyamory-press-is-at-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/28\/the-anti-polyamory-press-is-at-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Polyamory Press is at it Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/blog\/beyond-don-juan\/201108\/why-open-marriages-dont-work\">Why &#8220;Open&#8221; Marriages Don&#8217;t Work<\/a>. This article is a bit insidious and I find it disturbing. The basic allusion is that anyone who wants to be poly is damaged somehow and might actually have Schizoid Personality Disorder. I deeply disagree with many points in her article. Where there&#8217;s not an armchair diagnosis, she seems to find open relationships male-driven and female tolerated. As you can imagine, I find <em>really<\/em> weird. In fact, I&#8217;d say that she&#8217;s not interacted much with the polyamory community to have this point of view!<\/p>\n<p>I would like to encourage the polyamory community to respond to this by going to Psychology Today and giving some <a href=\"https:\/\/my.psychologytoday.com\/feedback\">feedback<\/a>. However, a caveat: I don&#8217;t think the author knows many poly people. The letters she gets are going to be the face of polyamory to her. <strong>You<\/strong> will be the face of polyamory to her. Keep that in mind and be a credit to your kink in your responses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: \u00a0Well, it seems the aforementioned article has been taken down. \u00a0Interesting. \u00a0I hope that she&#8217;s reconsidering her opinion due to thoughtful, intelligent feedback and a desire to do some research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why &#8220;Open&#8221; Marriages Don&#8217;t Work. This article is a bit insidious and I find it disturbing. The basic allusion is that anyone who wants to be poly is damaged somehow and might actually have Schizoid Personality Disorder. I deeply disagree with many points in her article. Where there&#8217;s not an armchair diagnosis, she seems to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-polyamory-community"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polyamorousmisanthrope.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}