Open Relationship?

Posted by Shri Posted on Apr 21 2011 7 comments

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Shri

View April 22, 2011

Some of our readers are not happy with the 4th option ( “Please don’t call it a relationship!”) and consider it offensive. It was not meant to be. Sincere apologizes.

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- Rashmireplied:
  
  View April 22, 2011
  
  I disagree. I think every person has the right to define a relationship as and how they want.
  
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MJ

View April 22, 2011

Offensive? What? Why? Are we being influenced by the so-called Moral Nazis (Political Parties) in our country? All these scams I tell you…bad bad bad!

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Shri

View April 22, 2011

MJ & Rashmi : Folks are NOT offended by “Open relationships”, but they are offended by the 4th option in the poll, that says “Please don’t call it a relationship”. They feel it ridicules open relationships and is very judgmental. Obviously, that was not the intention.

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Aniruddhan Vasudevan

View April 22, 2011

I guess, a monogamous relationship, however shaky/ abusive/ dysfunctional, would not have its status as “relationship” questioned. If an LGBT community forum had a poll that gave people options to be abusive of homosexuality/ bisxuality/ trans…sexuality, or a poll that questioned the sanctity of monogamous relationships, more people would be crying hoarse. That’s the truth. For everything else, people are “entitled to opinions.” Our outage is also very selective. Of course, there is no need to pretend community forums don’t have preferences for certain kinds of relationships, people, participants, etc. and some are holier and more ‘normal’ than the others. If part of our tag line is “we are just like you (whoever that is) and we want just what you want,” this is keeping in line with that. And I know I will be asked to take a chill pill and told that this is just a poll, just like it always happens.

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- Srinireplied:
  
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  it’s just a poll for now. we’ll need the opinion of a 600 million queers worldwide to appreciate generalizing. but hey, this is fun! let’s vote!
  
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Broom

View April 23, 2011

Honestly, this is a light hearted poll! They should be heartened by the number of responses that were either in favour or non-judgmental about open relationships.

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