Originally Posted by Normnd2025
Go play with some toys then go to sleep like a good girl.


So, all other matters aside, an account made a few hours ago, with posts only in this thread, but who knows the preferred identity of a poster who hasn't posted in a way that identifies such during the account's short tenure here... All else aside, I smell a sock-puppet to boot...

Originally Posted by Tharrow
Like joking aside that guy is right though, I do approve of Halsin's behavior because I am a shameless, valueless slut who belongs to the streets.

Careful, if you please. I'm very much what many might (and have) called a slut, and I feel no shame over my lifestyle choice (I don't find the word to be an insult to me personally, even though it's often intended as such by those using it) - but it says nothing about my value as a person, nor does it make me deserving of any kind of ill-treatment or disrespect. Veiling derogatory comments in back-handed self-derision does not make them any less derogatory when they are used to describe whole groups or categories of people.

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I think that Halsin proposing to a coupled-up avatar as a culturally nonmonogamous guy is never going to feel right to people disgusted by nonmonogamy no matter what revisions are made to his writing, so appeasing them should not factor in. It's always going to set some people on edge that he's propositioning as a third, and they're going to be grossed out no matter what changes are made to his writing because nonmonogamy grosses them out and they see it as disrespectful.

I don't quite agree. There are healthy, constructive and positive ways of handling these kinds of social interactions, and there are harmful and stereotypically negative ways of doing so. For a style of life that is strongly under-represented in media, positive and healthy ways of representing should be the more prominent. As something becomes more normalised and understood better by broader swathes of the community, then it become safer to explore the more destructive or harmful ways it can exist. Halsin's behaviour from all the descriptions I've read regarding what he does and says and when, is not a healthy or positive approach; it sounds much more like it reinforces a lot of the negative stereotypes surrounding poly-leaning or non-monogamous people. If it's also played off in a positive way (it sounds like it is, given the player dialogues and other comments people have mentioned), that's not cool, or helpful.

I'll caveat the comment by saying that I've not played through the exchange myself - just curated the actions, scenes and dialogues that others have reported and quoted, and the situations that they occurred in.