I haven’t read his book, nor have I read “the polyamory book” but opening with the knee-jerk assumption that he deserves a reading at a bookstore while she doesn’t is not a great look for someone who wants to lecture us about entitlement
I haven’t read his book, nor have I read “the polyamory book” but opening with the knee-jerk assumption that he deserves a reading at a bookstore while she doesn’t is not a great look for someone who wants to lecture us about entitlement
I think his one-sided feud with her came up on a recent episode of Feminine Chaos--it shouldn't be a mystery why a sexy memoir about an open marriage might be attracting more interest than one about a former foster kid going to Yale and Cambridge. That's a no-brainer without needing to bring ideology in.
I think you're interpreting him in the worst light possible, particularly considering you compared him to Trump in another comment. You really don't like this guy, we get it.
The same could be said for folks dumping on the polyamory author. Unlike issues around, say, compelled speech or censorship, poly should be a non-issue - even if you think it's silly, nobody is trying to make anyone else become poly. Yet a lot of folks with more socially conservative leanings (and there are a lot of these in the so-called 'heterodox' space) seem to take open identification as poly as a personal affront.
I haven’t read his book, nor have I read “the polyamory book” but opening with the knee-jerk assumption that he deserves a reading at a bookstore while she doesn’t is not a great look for someone who wants to lecture us about entitlement
I think his one-sided feud with her came up on a recent episode of Feminine Chaos--it shouldn't be a mystery why a sexy memoir about an open marriage might be attracting more interest than one about a former foster kid going to Yale and Cambridge. That's a no-brainer without needing to bring ideology in.
Yeah, as Phoebe Maltz Bovy pointed out on her Substack, these two memoirs aren't really aimed at similar audiences.
I think you're interpreting him in the worst light possible, particularly considering you compared him to Trump in another comment. You really don't like this guy, we get it.
The same could be said for folks dumping on the polyamory author. Unlike issues around, say, compelled speech or censorship, poly should be a non-issue - even if you think it's silly, nobody is trying to make anyone else become poly. Yet a lot of folks with more socially conservative leanings (and there are a lot of these in the so-called 'heterodox' space) seem to take open identification as poly as a personal affront.
How hard is it to book a bookstore for a small event? How hard is it if you have 50,000 subscribers? It doesn't seem like an unreasonable expectation.