Seattle moves to recognize the rights of polyamorous partners - LGBTQ Nation
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"Chosen family is family," said the author of a City Council proposal.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/66759116

A unanimous vote among the three members of the Seattle City Council’s Housing, Arts and Civil Rights Committee forwarded a proposal to the full council that would amend sections of the Seattle Municipal Code to “recognize genders outside the gender binary, recognize pansexuality and asexuality as orientations, and include consensual relationships with multiple partners as an element of attitudes, preferences, and practices pertaining to sexual orientation.”

The protections would apply to employment, housing, business licensure, places of public accommodation, park usage, and “bias-free policing,” according to the proposal.

Seattle would follow Portland, West Hollywood, Berkeley, California, and a handful of other cities in adopting the expanded protections against discrimination. Under the bill, residents facing unfair treatment could file complaints and seek remedy through Seattle’s Office for Civil Rights.

  • Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    41·
    11 days ago

    It could, yes, but not all polyamorous beings do or want to get married.

    Also, even if polygamy (and we mean polygamy not polygyny or polyandry) did happen it’s a huge assumption that the divorce rate would be higher, or the same as monogamous marriages.

    It might be healthier, and less likely to cause divorce because beings could be more honest.

    • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      61·
      11 days ago

      The default assumption should be that the rate of divorce will be higher. A couple has two relationships that can go wrong. A 3-person group have three relationships that can go South. A 4-person group have 6 relationships to worry about. Etc.

      As far as, “beings could be more honest?” This sounds like poly-supremacist thinking. If you find yourself assuming any group of people is more innately honest or good, it’s time to step back and check your privilege. This is just as bad as someone concluding that poly people are inherently less trustworthy or less capable of commitment, thus concluding that their divorce rate will be higher.

      I think the divorce rate among poly people will be higher, but not because of any innate property of the poly people themselves. Each poly relationship is in fact many relationships. And every relationship carries the risk of breakup.

      • Of the Air (cele/celes)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        3·
        11 days ago

        As far as, “beings could be more honest?” This sounds like poly-supremacist thinking. If you find yourself assuming any group of people is more innately honest or good, it’s time to step back and check your privilege.

        Fair, however, it does seem to us that a lot of seemingly monogamous beings cheat because they can’t be honest, as in they aren’t allowed to be, at least in part.

        • isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          41·
          11 days ago

          If anything, polyamory would create even more opportunities for dishonesty. With just two people, if one starts to loathe the other, they can just break up. With multiple partners, there’s pressure to hold your tongue for the sake of maintaining the relationship with the others. The idea that poly people are inherently more honest is weird. As is referring to humans as “beings,” when 99.99% would be pretty weirded out by you referring to them as such. I’m a human, not whatever the fuck a “being” is. That sounds like species equivalent of degendering.