Pagan/Poly Metafilter Wank
Well, Halloween just passed and Mefites celebrated by doing what they do best: insulting one another, freaking out over religion and bringing the wank. Someone posts a link to Isaac Bonewitz's neopagan.net in order to generate some discussion about the history of and myths surrounding Halloween. The pagan bashing has barely begun when someone spots the word "polyamory" on the site.

And they're off!


Some would like to vote pretty much everyone off the island:

pagans. what a bunch of pretentious douchebags.

i'd like to ship them, the fundamentalist athiests, and the "Christian" evangelists off to some island and let 'em fight out it out. Then nuke the site from orbit. (it's the only way to be sure.)

Everyone knows that women only become polyamorous to justify their promiscuity:

So why is a polyamorous witch funny? Let's see, ok: guys have been making up stories and justifications for sex also since forever. It's just amusing to imagine a women who tells herself she not just sleeping around, she's actually, I dunno, fulfilling her duties.

Some managed to ignore the polyamory aspect:

When did it become acceptable to point and laugh derisively at a person for their sexual preferences and religion?

When their "religion" is a broadcast of their insecurities. You declare yourself a witch either because you hate your parents or because you want attention.

Polyamory explained, Metafilter style:

you can dress up polyarmory as much as you want; it's still just a fancy word for "slut."

Oh? You resent being called a slut? How judgemental of you!:

So you think being a slut is a bad thing? Talk about a value judgement. Looks like you have your own bias's.

There are a few brave souls in there trying to be reasonable about the whole thing but it pretty much goes on and on and on like that, although this is Metafilter so they manage to work in some fat bashing as well.


Mmmmm...Metafilter. You never disappoint.