Originally Posted by KillerRabbit
What doesn't help that cause is using words like 'deviancy' and 'degeneracy'. My friendly recommendation is for advocates to avoid using them for both practical and for ethical reasons. Practically if makes you less effective advocate, ethically some us who are actually poly feel like you are calling them deviants.

Just echoing this. And requesting that folk use the post report functionality to let us know of language that fails to show appropriate sensitivity to the fact that this topic has implications for peoples’ real lives. That way we can put a stop to it before it gets the thread locked.

"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"