I really hope that they start encouraging boys to get the vaccine for just that reason . . . plus, if they prove the link between penile cancer/HPV (last I checked, it was a correlation but not 100% proven?), then perhaps they'll really push for male vaccination? Having boys vaccinated as well as girls would really help, particularly since boys tend to be asymptomatic unless they have the wart-causing strain.
Heh, my original Twitter comments to Jeph were:
I wouldn't define Tai as "polyamorous" if she's looking to "settle down" with one person eventually - I'd call her "single."
The point of polyamory isn't "dating a bunch of people 'til something better comes along" (and I know it's a comic, but srsly!)
I do understand his perspective (that Tai's relationship needs have changed, and that she hasn't necessarily realized that -- heh, the sick part is that it is mirroring something that happened relatively recently in my own extended poly network, where my partner's partner claimed to be poly but turned out to really want monogamy, and wound up making all of us fairly miserable for a while until she finally admitted that she wanted something other than what she'd signed up for) . . . but the way he phrased it in the comic seemed like he was DEFINING polyamory as a phase, and one that involved fairly shallow and transitive relationships, at that.
*grrrrr*
Let's see where he goes on Monday, and take it from there. But, yeah -- I'm bummed to be losing a character who represented 'one of us,' even if she was a lot more on the casual-sex side than on the polyfi or multiple-LTR side (so, she represented one facet of poly, but not my side of the umbrella.)
I didn't have any issue with her portrayal because I know that there are plenty of poly people who self-identify as poly and have casual sex and are perfectly happy that way, I'd just prefer that it not be a *prescriptive* description, which is how Friday's comic came off (whereas every other comic has seemed like "okay, this is just how *Tai* is as an individual poly person, practicing her own personal brand of single/relatively-unattached polyamory.)
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Heh, my original Twitter comments to Jeph were:
I wouldn't define Tai as "polyamorous" if she's looking to "settle down" with one person eventually - I'd call her "single."
The point of polyamory isn't "dating a bunch of people 'til something better comes along" (and I know it's a comic, but srsly!)
I do understand his perspective (that Tai's relationship needs have changed, and that she hasn't necessarily realized that -- heh, the sick part is that it is mirroring something that happened relatively recently in my own extended poly network, where my partner's partner claimed to be poly but turned out to really want monogamy, and wound up making all of us fairly miserable for a while until she finally admitted that she wanted something other than what she'd signed up for) . . . but the way he phrased it in the comic seemed like he was DEFINING polyamory as a phase, and one that involved fairly shallow and transitive relationships, at that.
*grrrrr*
Let's see where he goes on Monday, and take it from there. But, yeah -- I'm bummed to be losing a character who represented 'one of us,' even if she was a lot more on the casual-sex side than on the polyfi or multiple-LTR side (so, she represented one facet of poly, but not my side of the umbrella.)
I didn't have any issue with her portrayal because I know that there are plenty of poly people who self-identify as poly and have casual sex and are perfectly happy that way, I'd just prefer that it not be a *prescriptive* description, which is how Friday's comic came off (whereas every other comic has seemed like "okay, this is just how *Tai* is as an individual poly person, practicing her own personal brand of single/relatively-unattached polyamory.)
Meh.
-- A :P