The Next Cultural Innovation: Throuples

 

OK, if you’re a naïve rube like me you might ask yourself what is a “throuple?” It turns out it’s a relatively new word formed by the blending of “three” and “couple” and it means “a long-term sexual relationship between three people” per a new entry into the Macmillan Dictionary. They must be ahead of the cultural curve from Webster’s.

You would think that the culture couldn’t sink any lower. Every day this absurdity of changing one’s gender identity takes deeper root. Today we were informed that a biological male (is there really any other kind?) will be competing against women in the Olympic trials.

A biologically male marathon runner who identifies as a transgender woman is set to compete in the USA Olympic trials later in February.

Megan Youngren “is set to make history on Feb. 29 as the first openly transgender athlete to compete at the U.S. Olympic marathon trials,” Sports Illustrated reported. Youngren qualified for the trials after a strong performance on Dec. 8, 2019 in the California International Marathon.

This after two men—supposedly spouses—kissed on stage after one was participating in a presidential debate for the United States Presidency. No matter what is written on paper or declared legal Petey and Chasten do not form a marriage. But the culture has decided they do.

As if all this wasn’t spinning a conservative’s head around faster than a demonic possession in a movie, we now have throuples being endorsed on television.

The HGTV show House Hunters featured its first “Throuple”, or polyamorous couple, on its show Wednesday night.

A “Throuple” is a relationship made up of three people. In this case, two women and a man named Lori, Geli, and Brian. The couple has two children, who are biologically related to Brian and Lori.

In the episode, the trio describes their ideal home as one that has a three-car garage, a master bedroom that fits three people, and room for the two children. While looking at a house’s kitchen, Lori remarked on its size as a “couple’s kitchen, not a throuple’s kitchen.”

The episode describes to viewers how the couple met. Brian and Lori were legally married and met Geli at a bar, where they fell in love with her. Brian and Lori subsequently exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony, which their children attended.

The episode was titled “Three’s Not A Crowd In Colorado Springs,” and received mixed reviews. Some viewers disapproved of the show featuring a polyamorous couple, while others lauded it for being progressive.

Oh, how quaint. Love knows no bounds, especially on St. Valentine’s Day. They even invited their children to the ceremony. A ceremony of what and by whom?

HGTV ought to be ashamed of themselves but I’m sure they feel pride. From the absurdity of gay marriage to the absurdity of transgenderism to the absurdity of throuples, we conservatives can’t keep up. Progressives are moving faster than a lump of crap falling off the Empire State Building. And making the same splat.

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  1. Bryan G. Stephens Thatcher
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    I guess I don’t care if they want to live that way. 

    I don’t watch much TV though. 

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  2. Manny Coolidge
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    We don’t need a new word: ménage à trois.

    I think that just refers to a sexual encounter, not a relationship. But I could be wrong.

    You are wrong. A threesome is a mere sexual encounter. A ménage à trois is when three set up housekeeping together.

    OK.  I guess it’s completely synonymous with throuple.  

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  3. MarciN Member
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    Manny (View Comment):

    Hoyacon (View Comment):

    BTW what does “biologically related to Brian and Lori” mean? Is that what some of us think of as a son or a daughter?

    I believe it means it was their sperm and egg.

    Good grief. Are you suggesting there’s a difference between a sperm and an egg? Off with your head. :-) 

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  4. Manny Coolidge
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    By the way, when I spell “throuple” here or in Word, I get the squiggly red line of a misspelled word.  I refuse to add it to the dictionary.  

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  5. Arahant Member
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    Manny (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    We don’t need a new word: ménage à trois.

    I think that just refers to a sexual encounter, not a relationship. But I could be wrong.

    You are wrong. A threesome is a mere sexual encounter. A ménage à trois is when three set up housekeeping together.

    OK. I guess it’s completely synonymous with throuple.

    Yep. I guess most folks have it confused, so use the new terms.

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  6. Arahant Member
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    Manny (View Comment):

    By the way, when I spell “throuple” here or in Word, I get the squiggly red line of a misspelled word. I refuse to add it to the dictionary.

    Another term is “triad.” Makes them sound more like a Chinese gang.

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  7. EJHill Podcaster
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    I look back on the SSM arguments around here and think anyone who used the words “there is no such thing as a slippery slope” should be horse whipped. (Unless they would enjoy it.)

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  8. Arahant Member
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    EJHill (View Comment):

    I look back on the SSM arguments around here and think anyone who used the words “there is no such thing as a slippery slope” should be horse whipped. (Unless they would enjoy it.)

    Depends on the horse that’s doing the whipping.

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  9. Manny Coolidge
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    Arahant (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    By the way, when I spell “throuple” here or in Word, I get the squiggly red line of a misspelled word. I refuse to add it to the dictionary.

    Another term is “triad.” Makes them sound more like a Chinese gang.

    Or a group out of Star Wars.  

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  10. Miffed White Male Member
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    Stad (View Comment):
    We stopped watching House Hunters ages ago. It used to be fun, and we played along trying to guess which house a couple would pick. Just when we got good at it, HGTV changed the format. The best I could figure, if there was one obvious choice, the people would pick a house totally different, usually based on a previously undisclosed desire, or a change of heart about how important a feature was.

    Not really the topic, and never watched it regularly, but the times I have seen the show it always appears to be people with barista-type jobs who somehow have a budget of 1.5 million dollars for a house.

     

     

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  11. DonG (skeptic) Coolidge
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    EJHill (View Comment):

    I look back on the SSM arguments around here and think anyone who used the words “there is no such thing as a slippery slope” should be horse whipped. (Unless they would enjoy it.)

    You need to start with pony whipping, then foal whipping, then colt whipping, and end with horse whipping. 

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  12. Hoyacon Member
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    Miffed White Male (View Comment):

    Stad (View Comment):
    We stopped watching House Hunters ages ago. It used to be fun, and we played along trying to guess which house a couple would pick. Just when we got good at it, HGTV changed the format. The best I could figure, if there was one obvious choice, the people would pick a house totally different, usually based on a previously undisclosed desire, or a change of heart about how important a feature was.

    Not really the topic, and never watched it regularly, but the times I have seen the show it always appears to be people with barista-type jobs who somehow have a budget of 1.5 million dollars for a house.

    Pretty sure that it’s regarded as one of the phoniest of the phony reality shows, which is saying a lot.  Home “buyers” have actually seen and purchased the homes in advance, etc.

     

     

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  13. EJHill Podcaster
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    DonG (skeptic): You need to start with pony whipping, then foal whipping, then colt whipping, and end with horse whipping.

    No. Non-gender specific whipping will do. Of course, we can move on to donkeys at any time. 

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  14. Jon1979 Inactive
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    Manny (View Comment):

    Jon1979 (View Comment):

    Manny: “Brian and Lori were legally married and met Geli at a bar, where they fell in love with her. Brian and Lori subsequently exchanged vows in a commitment ceremony, which their children attended.”

    Am I to assume the commitment ceremony included Geli? It does not say.

    Perhaps one can see the culmination of the sexual revolution here. But culmination implies an end. I suspect they will keep finding and finding new varieties of cultural norms to establish. The end never seems to be in sight.

    I don’t doubt that people who want to shout to the world how edgy and forward-thinking they are are going to try to do edgy things. I just find it funny that in the era of #MeToo and the weaponizing of past victimization — real, imagined or enhanced — you have a situation of multiple sex partners in a gender-unbalanced alignment that down in the line is almost begging for the ones who aren’t the favored partner, or don’t think they are, to start hurling accusations in legal battles. But it will open up new avenues of income for divorce attorneys.

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  15. Jon1979 Inactive
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    EJHill (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic): You need to start with pony whipping, then foal whipping, then colt whipping, and end with horse whipping.

    No. Non-gender specific whipping will do. Of course, we can move on to donkeys at any time.

    Horse whip my slippery slope” sounds like something Gov. Lepetomaine would have asked his secretary to do in “Blazing Saddles”.

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  16. Aaron Miller Inactive
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    Polygamy is more natural than gay unions. Polygamy, like divorce, was abandoned because it cheapened marriage and divided families.

    It was permitted by various cultures for thousands of years because it accords with our animal nature. But it does not accord with our spiritual nature. The endless possibility of adding or exchanging spouses meant that no one person ever merited total devotion. No family was indissolvable.

    This slippery slope did not begin with the normalization of homosexuality. Before that was divorce and abortion. Before that was feminist rejection of sexual roles, even with exceptions or modifications. Before that were various rejections of other social roles and orders.

    At the core is a radical assertion of liberty veering from self-direction to self-creation. It’s an insistence that we inherit no roles or responsibilities, no identity, and no bonds but those we choose.

    It will end, as it always has, in the dissolution of society. The comforts and powers of affluence fool people into believing anything is possible and we may escape our roots. I pray that God breaks through the lies in time to preserve our peace and order.

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  17. Doug Kimball Thatcher
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    Stad (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    We don’t need a new word: ménage à trois.

    Two people and a goat: menagerie à trois?

    Only in Afghanistan is there a goat involved.

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  18. Terry Mott Member
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    Stad (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    We don’t need a new word: ménage à trois.

    Two people and a goat: menagerie à trois?

    Come on people!  Only one “Like” before me???

    I just spent 30 minutes downstairs telling bad Dad jokes to my wife and 18 year-old daughter on Valentine’s Day (“How do you catch a polar bear?” — 10 minutes later, daughter says, “Oh! ICE hole! I get it!”).  “Managerie à trois” is top-shelf stuff.

    We’re supposed to be a CONSERVATIVE web site.  We must maintain the illusion that “mature” males are clever, else the feminists win.

    Don’t bogart the “likes”.

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  19. Arahant Member
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    Terry Mott (View Comment):
    Come on people! Only one “Like” before me???

    You’re going to encourage him.

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  20. Sisyphus Member
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    EJHill (View Comment):

    DonG (skeptic): You need to start with pony whipping, then foal whipping, then colt whipping, and end with horse whipping.

    No. Non-gender specific whipping will do. Of course, we can move on to donkeys at any time.

    Yes, non-gender specific whipping of white male equines. Let’s be correct about it.

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  21. Sisyphus Member
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    Terry Mott (View Comment):

    Stad (View Comment):

    Arahant (View Comment):

    We don’t need a new word: ménage à trois.

    Two people and a goat: menagerie à trois?

    Come on people! Only one “Like” before me???

    I just spent 30 minutes downstairs telling bad Dad jokes to my wife and 18 year-old daughter on Valentine’s Day (“How do you catch a polar bear?” — 10 minutes later, daughter says, “Oh! ICE hole! I get it!”). “Managerie à trois” is top-shelf stuff.

    We’re supposed to be a CONSERVATIVE web site. We must maintain the illusion that “mature” males are clever, else the feminists win.

    Don’t bogart the “likes”.

    Justice Kennedy’s rationale for mandating same sex marriage is so vague and devoid of reason, it lends itself to discarding age of consent and bestiality laws. No likes for rape jokes from this quarter.

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  22. Henry Racette Member
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    Jerry Giordano (Arizona Patrio… (View Comment):

    It is a bit funny to think that the Wokeists are now supportive of a man having a harem.

    Damn it. I was all set to disapprove of all this nonsense, and then you have to go say that and prompt me to rethink everything.

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  23. David Foster Member
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    There was a ‘Borat’ episode in which he was house-shopping, and told the sellers he needed a basement with a concrete floor in order to properly bolt down the cage for the wives.

    IIRC, there weren’t any objections…

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  24. OccupantCDN Coolidge
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    Manny (View Comment):

    By the way, when I spell “throuple” here or in Word, I get the squiggly red line of a misspelled word. I refuse to add it to the dictionary.

    I agree. Its like English is suddenly (or not so suddenly) going German? Why do we need to invent new words, by mashing words together to describe the SJW world view?

    With a little practice maybe they could catch up to the Germans, who’ve produced some wing-dingers, like:

    Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister

    Lebensabschnittpartner

    Freundschaftsbezeugung

    (Yay! for cut & paste)

     

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  25. Manny Coolidge
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    OccupantCDN (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    By the way, when I spell “throuple” here or in Word, I get the squiggly red line of a misspelled word. I refuse to add it to the dictionary.

    I agree. Its like English is suddenly (or not so suddenly) going German? Why do we need to invent new words, by mashing words together to describe the SJW world view?

    With a little practice maybe they could catch up to the Germans, who’ve produced some wing-dingers, like:

    Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister

    Lebensabschnittpartner

    Freundschaftsbezeugung

    (Yay! for cut & paste)

     

    LOL. Blended words are not that unusual in English. For instance, smog is a blend of smoke and fog. 

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  26. OccupantCDN Coolidge
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    Manny (View Comment):

    OccupantCDN (View Comment):

    Manny (View Comment):

    By the way, when I spell “throuple” here or in Word, I get the squiggly red line of a misspelled word. I refuse to add it to the dictionary.

    I agree. Its like English is suddenly (or not so suddenly) going German? Why do we need to invent new words, by mashing words together to describe the SJW world view?

    With a little practice maybe they could catch up to the Germans, who’ve produced some wing-dingers, like:

    Bezirksschornsteinfegermeister

    Lebensabschnittpartner

    Freundschaftsbezeugung

    (Yay! for cut & paste)

     

    LOL. Blended words are not that unusual in English. For instance, smog is a blend of smoke and fog.

    Yes, excellent example, but smog is an accurate description (broadly speaking) of smog. It is a blend of smoke and fog.

    I was thinking that a throuple could be best thought of as a chemical family. Instead of the Norman Rockwell nuclear family of traditional American values fame, a triad or an expanded family unit could be modeled like a molecule instead of an atom.

    Also, I would like to agree with the other commentators that suggested this has an advantage over gay marriage in that at least its been done before – there are many historical precedents of these family units working. I wonder what where the Greek or Roman words for these arrangements?

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  27. Manny Coolidge
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    OccupantCDN (View Comment):

    Yes, excellent example, but smog is an accurate description (broadly speaking) of smog. It is a blend of smoke and fog.

    I was thinking that a throuple could be best thought of as a chemical family. Instead of the Norman Rockwell nuclear family of traditional American values fame, a triad or an expanded family unit could be modeled like a molecule instead of an atom.

    Yes, throuple is an incoherent blend.  Three doesn’t make a couple.  Agreed, but I think it’s still defined as a blend.  

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  28. Freeven Member
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    Hundreds of millions of people in the country, and hundreds of thousands of words to draw from, and the best we can do is throuple? We need a lot more monkeys banging on  a lot more typewriters .

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