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==Opposition== Yasmin Nair, a co-founder of [[Against Equality]], has criticized polyamory. She has stated that polyamorists are not inherently [[Radical politics|radical]],<ref>{{cite podcast |url=https://www.listennotes.com/id/podcasts/unpopular-front/content-warning-bunker-w-8DwlKoRmy-G/ |title=Content Warning: Bunker w/ Yasmin Nair (3.2.19) |website=Unpopular Front |publisher=Listen Notes |host=Ben Udashen |date=March 2, 2019 |access-date=December 27, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20201227163502/https://www.listennotes.com/id/podcasts/unpopular-front/content-warning-bunker-w-8DwlKoRmy-G/ |archive-date=December 27, 2020 }}</ref> and said that the discourse around polyamory is unengaging and not liberating, only [[Fetishism|fetishizing]] a "peculiar form of monogamy...and long-term relationships".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://yasminnair.com/newt-gingrich-polyamorist/ |title=Newt Gingrich: Polyamorist? |last=Nair |first=Yasmin |date=January 19, 2012 |website=Yasmin Nair's official website |publisher=[[WordPress]] |access-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227163051/https://yasminnair.com/newt-gingrich-polyamorist/ |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> In a 2013 article in ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[Julie Bindel]] described polyamory a "co-opting and rebranding of polygamy". She argued that contemporary proponents of polyamory often overlooked gender dynamics and characterized it as a choice predominantly made by "overwhelmingly white, affluent, university-educated, and privileged folk".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/polyamory-no-favours-for-women |title=Rebranding polyamory does women no favors |last=Bindel |first=Julie |author-link=Julie Bindel|date=August 26, 2013 |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227170332/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/26/polyamory-no-favours-for-women |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> The [[conservative]] ''[[National Review]]'' claimed that "widespread acceptance of polyamory could make society worse off" with supposed false notions of [[honesty]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/polyamory-elevating-sexual-desires-over-obligations-has-predictable-consequences/ |title=The Counterfeit 'Honesty' of Polyamory |last1=Frost |first1=Daniel |last2=Boyd |first2=Hal |date=January 7, 2010 |website=[[National Review]] |access-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227170833/https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/01/polyamory-elevating-sexual-desires-over-obligations-has-predictable-consequences/ |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Conor Friedersdorf]], writing in ''[[The Atlantic]]'' in 2015, expressed his opposition to polyamorous [[Civil marriage|civil marriages]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/case-against-polygamy/397823/ |title=The Case Against Encouraging Polygamy |last1=Friedersdorf |first1=Conor |date=July 9, 2015 |website=[[The Atlantic]] |access-date=December 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201227171638/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/07/case-against-polygamy/397823/ |archive-date=December 27, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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