Very interesting. I enjoyed all of that and agreed with it.
I think society would be a lot better if there _were_ overt ways of signalling "very good platonic friend" as a public relationship. As someone who has been wrongly accused by onlookers/other friends of having romantic relationships with both women and men who were close friends, it would be nice not to worry about that confusion. I tend to form very close platonic friendships. Indeed, one of the big logistical benefits of marriage for me has been the fact that people assume (correctly of course :) ) that all of my other relationships are platonic without any annoying and overly personal discussions.
It's funny, as poly and married I've experienced both having people assume my intentions were platonic when I was hitting on someone like mad, and having people assume my intentions were romantic when they were anything but.
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I think society would be a lot better if there _were_ overt ways of signalling "very good platonic friend" as a public relationship. As someone who has been wrongly accused by onlookers/other friends of having romantic relationships with both women and men who were close friends, it would be nice not to worry about that confusion. I tend to form very close platonic friendships. Indeed, one of the big logistical benefits of marriage for me has been the fact that people assume (correctly of course :) ) that all of my other relationships are platonic without any annoying and overly personal discussions.
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