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This isn't even a close issue. The whole civilized world agrees with me that polygamy, like slavery, is a relic of antiquity and maximally oppressive of women. In fact, has polygamy ever not gone hand in hand with child sexual abuse? Incest as well haunts polygamous societies. Never in the history of the world has polygamy not been taboo in advanced civilizations with representative governments. It didn't exist even in the Roman Empire and one of Christianity's great contributins was to eliminate it in Europe among the erstwhile pagans. It speaks volumes that today polygamy is prevalent mostly in radical Islam and indigenous societies (aside from those disgusting Orthodox Mormons).
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I think you're splitting hairs.
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You think women in law school is a good thing? To me, it's a form of idiocy, I wouldn't wish law school upon man, woman or child. Women in the LDS Church are smarter than men, they go to med school or they become metalurgical expert locators.
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I don't think I am. I take it you find no difference?
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I heard the same crap being spewed by A Swedish coalition of feminists during the debates on whether Sweden was to join the EU or not. They had traveled down to Greece, Spain and Italy and their rhetoric was filled with the same finger pointing as yours. Oh how these Mediterranean women were oppressed having to stay home and take care of the children, having no college education, no careers, no opportunities to grow, blah blah blah. The irony is that two major news agencies in Germany and Sweden actually spent some time interviewing women from the above mentioned countries and they were shocked that many of these Spanish, Italian and Greek women would actually point the finger back at the Swedes and claim that the Swedish women were the ones truly oppressed since they had to fill the roles of nurturer and breadwinner. They felt that the pressure these women put on themselves to replace roles that men had filled for so long only served to make them even more unhappy than they already were. These Mediterranean women were clear on how they valued themselves, and how important their role in the lives of their family and society were. The Coalitions work was actually hurt by this exposure, and they quickly disappeared from the media as their arguments didn't hold water. Imagine that. In socialist Sweden where Daddies can get time off of work to be Mr. Mom, and the state funded day care system has all but replaced the nurturing care of parents. Sometimes when something has been working for thousands of years, trying to change it due to an overinflated ego of self importance and skewed perspectives on the worth of souls (money, prominence, worldly recognition), you have to ask yourself who the backward, myopic, and ignorant people are. |
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