• Jarix@lemmy.world
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    Knowing a couple different polycules but not being in that community myself, I now think of these things much differently and sometimes completely miss the point they are trying to make and just think it’s a happy thought they are sharing instead of trying justv celebrating shitty behavior.

    And let me tell you how many wonderfully bewildered looks I get when it’s a person who is saying it in front of me and my reaction is completely different then they are expecting

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        Processing it through another filter, they see the idea more as an enjoyable consenting event rather than something done behind the back of an unaware partner.

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        They’re saying they interpret the post as a consensual act between three people instead of a joke about cheating. They’re saying they see comments about things like this and often interpret it like that and others are shocked because they think it’s a positive reaction to cheating.

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        I can but I’ll need some help. Where did we go off the rails, or how if that’s easier to answer