One rule for the boys but not for the girls!

[tabibito]

I've heard the term "sister wives", but I wasn't aware that it implied a biological relation.

On a somewhat similar note, Eric Clapton and George Harrison remained good friends even after the one divorced and the other married the woman on the rebound. They jokingly referred to each other as "husbands-in-law".

That is the concept that I have encountered. This is the first time I have heard of marriages involving biological sisters.

[Ronson]

As far as I know, none of us are from South Africa, and none of us are engaging in Polygyny or Polyandry.

So, all that's really left is to make a comment about how it's "Interesting" that people who are not impacted in any way with this practice or country are creating threads and commenting about it.

^ this

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

It is not hypocrisy if there are valid reasons that polygamy is workable and polyandry is not

And what are these "valid reasons"? And why should polyandry not be "workable" while polygyny is" workable"?

my point is there are limits to which the modern ideal of equality of the sexes fails just as badly as the oppression of women by men fails.

That is tangential to this issue.

The differences between the sexes - unlike the races - are not merely superficial

Excluding the fact that men cannot men become pregnant what precise differences do you have in mind?

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

As far as I know, none of us are from South Africa, and none of us are engaging in Polygyny or Polyandry.

So, all that's really left is to make a comment about how it's "Interesting" that people who are not impacted in any way with this practice or country are creating threads and commenting about it.

Ah the thinking of a little American. Anything that occurs outside of my country and with which my country is not involved is of little interest to me

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Interesting, I didn't know they had legalized polygyny there. Certainly if that's the case polyandry should be legal, and opposition in this case especially smacks of discrimination against women

(I think polygamy in general should be legal here in the US as well)

Precisely. It is patriarchy [and hypocrisy] writ large.

[rogue06]

I've heard the term "sister wives", but I wasn't aware that it implied a biological relation.

On a somewhat similar note, Eric Clapton and George Harrison remained good friends even after the one divorced and the other married the woman on the rebound. They jokingly referred to each other as "husbands-in-law".

A closer example is old Joe's son Hunter, who married his deceased brother's wife.

[Mountain Man]

Ah the thinking of a little American. Anything that occurs outside of my country and with which my country is not involved is of little interest to me

Okay, let's suppose any one of us is sufficiently interested in this topic (in whatever way you wish to define the term "sufficiently interested"), now what? What exactly are we expected to do about it?

[rogue06]

Ah the thinking of a little American. Anything that occurs outside of my country and with which my country is not involved is of little interest to me

Never mind that we span a continent and have four states larger than the country of Germany (Alaska by itself is over four and a half times larger). Another way to look at it is that the U.S. is bigger than one of the continents. We're 1.3 times the size of Australia

And, population-wise we're something like four times larger than Germany.

So while I don't support parochial views of the world it isn't like even those not much concerned outside our borders are only looking out for some tiny patch of ground that you can drive across in a day (Texans joke their driveways are that long).

[Ronson]

Ah the thinking of a little American. Anything that occurs outside of my country and with which my country is not involved is of little interest to me

CD wrote: "As far as I know, none of us are from South Africa..." I was thinking about starting a thread about the inequality of ox herders in Mongolia and all the hypocrisy surrounding it. But then I thought, "No one here lives in Mongolia so maybe I'm looking for haystack needles to whine about."

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

Okay, let's suppose any one of us is sufficiently interested in this topic (in whatever way you wish to define the term "sufficiently interested"), now what? What exactly are we expected to do about it?

What a stupid question. Why should this subject not elicit similar intellectual interest as any other topic that is raised on this board?

[Hypatia_Alexandria]

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So while I don't support parochial views of the world it isn't like even those not much concerned outside our borders are only looking out for some tiny patch of ground that you can drive across in a day (Texans joke their driveways are that long).

That puts me in mind of another Dave Allen joke about the English aristocrat in somewhat straitened circumstances who was showing a prospective Texan buyer around his dilapidated stately pile. Everything the Texan saw he compared to Texas where everything was so much bigger [and of course better].

That night when the Texan retired to bed he pulled back the sheets to find a creature [a tortoise] in his bed. He called for his host and asked in colourful LBJ Texan language what on earth it might be. His host assured it was "just a good old English bedbug"!

[CivilDiscourse]

Ah the thinking of a little American. Anything that occurs outside of my country and with which my country is not involved is of little interest to me

Oh, my mistake, I thought you said this the other day:

How interesting that most of the responses so far have been from those who will never find themselves pregnant.

My comment, after all, was just noting some "amusement", as you did here:

No it was a remark premised on amusement, namely that so many men have so much to write about what is always going to be a woman's problem.

I wonder how many of you regularly write about the issues surrounding menstruation or the menopause, or labour and perineal tears, or the early days of breast-feeding.

I admit I've rarely seen any threads or comments by men about those issues.

[Mountain Man]

What a stupid question. Why should this subject not elicit similar intellectual interest as any other topic that is raised on this board?

Okay, let's suppose any one of us is sufficiently intellectually interested in this topic (in whatever way you wish to define the term "sufficiently intellectually interested"), now what? What exactly are we expected to do about it?

[One Bad Pig]

At least from the examples I've seen here in North America, I'd argue that polygamy does not work either.

I don't recall any biblical examples of polygamy working all that well either.

[oxmixmudd]

At least from the examples I've seen here in North America, I'd argue that polygamy does not work either.

Again, I am not arguing for polygamy, but I tend to think the inherent differences between male and female might make polygamy the less difficult of the two.