I began listening to this Podcast in hopes of learning more about kink, poly and bdsm as a newly identified poly person. I started listening to the “Polyamorous” episode, in which the topic of “solo-poly” came up. I was immediately dismayed by the bias and offensive language- one of the hosts called it “stupid” and “dumb” and the others chimed in. It’s already difficult to learn and process new, developing and evolving aspects of identity, let alone find safe spaces to communicate and learn with others. At minimum, if you’re going to cover these topics, a basic level of respect, by not using offensive language is necessary for this kind of content to be appropriate and useful. I was immediately turned off by the judgement, bias, even the contempt for emerging new terms. New terms and langauage are helpful for people to name their experience- not all people identify the same. It’s okay to not understand- it’s not okay to talk poorly about what you don’t understand and claim to be a platform that promotes these sorts of topics. Too many people in this world already come with a level of shame and guilt from mainstream society- I was quite disappointed to hear it in this space as well. That’s all I needed to hear to know this podcast wasn’t for me. Listener be warned.
