By Maria Padhila
Podcasts are maddeningly forbidden fruit. I want to listen to them, but with my hearing, I have to turn them up so loud I risk waking up the house or introducing my daughter to topics I’m not ready to cover yet. My hearing problems make earphones uncomfortable as well (and I would never, ever wear them running, and neither should you), and I don’t spend a lot of time driving.
But with Tobi away with relatives and Isaac on extra-long shifts, I was able to finally listen to some podcasts I’ve wanted to hear for a while, particularly the Polyamory Weekly show with Cunning Minx, who has one of the prettiest radio voices ever.
Of course I wanted to tune into the one called “Help! I’m rich and I have a big penis!” Ah, perhaps someday I will be able to commiserate with the poor man whose metamours are always jealous because of his twin — or should I say triple — endowments.
Instead I went to “My Three Dads” to get a view on the proposed law in California that would allow three or more people to be legal parents if this were in the child’s best interest. I had pretty much ignored this bill because I thought it was more about custody and same-sex parenting, and this was just damn dumb on my part. It could have huge implications for poly parents. However, most people supporting the bill are downplaying that, because it’s the right-wing tendency to go off in that wacky “next thing you know, you’ll be marrying the Eiffel Tower!” direction, and why dangle the bait?