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Polygamy: lust or love : Comments
By Ayub Maftoon, published 18/7/2008There is an element hypocrisy in Western society when it comes to polygamy.
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Polyagamy is a process of protecting women, or response to existing oppression of men (can you imagine no worse oppression than being expected to fight and die in war? A burden that is only expected of males)
There are virtually equal numbers of boys and girls born. So, for every second-wife, there is a man who is probably going to die young as a virgin.
What polygamy tells young men is that unless you are powerfull and rich, then you will remain childless - effectively the Male Eunuch!
The situation for girls is much better. Regardless of who you are and how attractive/well-connected you are, you will be protected , have a family, and watch your children grow up!
Watch your children grow up, compared to death? Which would you choose?
Because the maths means that for every second-wife, there is a un-wed male.
How do societies go-on being polygamous? Well, basically, the math only works if many men are either killed (and that partly explains the violence of the polygamous world), or you are too poor to support a family. So, put another way, poor women live and enjoy their families, poor men die alone.
Polygamy is male oppression, or more correctly, a society of three castes, or three classes.
1: an tiny elite of powerfull men, supporting several wives
2: All women are proteted in a sort-of comfortable a middle class; All protected, fed, clothed and able to enjoy watching their children grow.
3: a slave-class of oppressed men, too poor to support families, used as cannon-fodder in a violent society, who die alone.
Tell you what, I'm male, but given these choices, I'd rather be a woman!
In summary
There are three classes of people:
1: at the top powerfull men, who sometimes oppress
2: In the guilded cage, comfortable, protected women
3: opressed, powerless men.
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