Well that was an interesting read lol. The absolute state of this thread.
At the request of a friend (that is probably laughing her ass of right now) I'm going to pop in this thread for a quick post.
Originally Posted by KillerRabbit
Last I looked 1 in 9 people are ENM support for poly people increases every year. We're at tipping point and soon prejudice against poly people will viewed in the same light as prejudice against LGBT folk
I'm going to ignore the absurdity and the subtle comparison between the LGBT (a sexuality) and Polyamory (a sexual practice) and just going to throw in a few question about the biased research that you have linked. (Seeing how you have a tendency to link biased research/articles when it comes to polyamory.)
Frontiers publishing you say? (not the most reputable place that isn't looked too kindly by many, seeing how they are for-profit despite claiming otherwise.) Research done by the Kinsley Institute you say? (Institute with a clear bias.) Alfred Kinsley you say? Children from birth have orgasm, pedophilia and incest sex benefits children - that Alfred Kinsey? Maybe I should write more about his followers or what this individual has said and done.
"The whole system is designed to publish as many papers as possible", says Matthias Barton of the University of Zürich in Switzerland
"Frontiers has used an in-house journals management software that does not give reviewers the option to recommend the rejection of manuscripts" and the "system is setup to make it almost impossible to reject papers"
In May 2015, Frontiers Media removed the entire editorial boards of Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine after editors complained that Frontiers Media staff were "interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing". In total 31 editors were removed. Following this incident, Nature Publishing Group ended its collaboration with Frontiers with the intent "never to mention again that Nature Publishing Group has some kind of involvement in Frontiers."
A demand by Frontiers Media to open a research misconduct case against Beall, to which the University of Colorado acquiesced, is reported as the immediate reason for Beall to take down the list. The university's investigation was closed with no findings.
In an interview in 2018, Beall stated that "my university began to attack me in several ways. They launched a research misconduct investigation against me (after seven months, the result of the investigation was that no misconduct had occurred). They also put an unqualified, mendacious supervisor over me, and he constantly attacked and harassed me. I decided I could no longer safely publish the list with my university threatening me in these ways."
(you'll find that people are split on them, bad but not as bad as MDPI)
The CEO of Frontiers personally threatened a library faculty, Jeffrey Beall, for identifying Frontiers journals as predatory. Filed complaints with his university trying to get him fired. This ended Beall's List, which was widely used by libraries to identify predatory publishers.
As for Kinsley and those that venerate him, well you can read that on your own. (Before someone decides to bring up the good of sex research stop ignoring the horrific parts of it)
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Either way, outside of bpudd1ng, Ravenna and Rahaya it seems that the majority of this threads participants (some even becoming a bit too emotional) haven't notices the manipulation tactics and a disingenuous stance Rabbit and another poster have taken in discussing this topic. From outright ignoring arguments, being selective and leaving out details to asserting their own headcanon as a fact behind the veil of 'my interoperation' while accusing others of doing the same, they have it all.
But I will ask this one thing of you, if you would indulge me. Could you write/show me every part of Shadowheart/Shadowhearts story that implies that she is poly? I'm genuinely curious. (fyi despite my dislike for polyamory as a practice, I don't care if someone has decided to dip their toes or entirely submerge themselves in it and to be honest I stopped caring about SH but I see too many people here talking about what they want and not what is in the game or whether is it done properly/shoved in at the last second/contradictory to the established.)
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