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[–] 189 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Was expecting more of an Egyptian punchline.

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Actually just has dead, wrapped up Egyptians in his basement.

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    [–] 65 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    People don't want to talk about this, but lesbianism is common in polygamy.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I would like to know more, as people don't want to talk about it.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Do you want to know more just because people don't want to talk about it?

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Well, as a person with adhd and time on my hands because work is slow, I could use some reading materials.

    I believe talking about things that don't often get mentioned is good. Even if it's a terrible subject. As long as it's handle respectfully.

    Also I'm aromantic asexual and not looking for smut.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Hi. I don't have sources but I think it makes sense logically.

    Like if you're a lesbian and want to be with someone in a society like the one where you can't have lesbian relationship but a guy can have multiple wives, I think you'd get into the same harem. You'd consider the guy as a cost of being with the one you want.

    And maybe there are good guys too, and they just let you be there and live how you like. I don't know how prominent arranged marriage is in those cultures, but some guys could be doing that and just sheltering people too.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    this really happened SOURCE: me, Albert Einstein who is also clapping

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    [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (69 children)

    Is the main objection to polygamy that having multiple sex partners is immoral or that the whole arrangement is subjugation of women (because usually it's multiple wives not husbands), or some other reason?

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Muslim men can have multiple wives (maximum 5 I believe) as long as they can provide for them. Muslim women are only allowed to have a single husband.

    The joke is that the school thought that the kid’s family was super progressive meanwhile in reality it was super patriarchal

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Thanks, I got the humor, what I'm wondering about is what's the predominant reason people in general object to polygamy, regardless of whether it's Islam or Mormons or whatever.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago* (6 children)

    People confuse polygamy with polygyny.

    Polygamy is when one person can marry multiple people.

    Polygyny is when one person can marry multiple women.

    Polyandry is when one person can marry multiple men.

    There's no specific word for when one person can marry multiple nonbinary people.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Probably depends on who you ask. I'm polyamorous and I think in almost all cases where someone says polygamy and not polyamory they're engaging in an immoral power dynamic. My experience being poly though I'd say most people take offense to the multiple partners thing and polygamy is just what they're familiar with as a concept

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (35 children)

    Find me just one example of a Muslim woman with two husbands.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    If everyone involved consents, should that be anyone else's business?

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (12 children)

    Consent under duress or desperation is not consent. That’s why I’m pointing out that if the polygamy only ever goes one way, there is an obvious power imbalance that prevents consent from being possible.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A bit of both. The Greeks and Romans had a cultural taboo against polygamy which Christianity inherited, which means that Christians have historically been opposed to polygamy (which was not the case in Pre-christian northern Europe) on moral grounds. There is also the issue that historically polygamy has been associated with patriarchal societies in which men are allowed or expected to have multiple wives, but women are not allowed to do the same. Additionally, it is also culturally associated with treating women as property of the husband. Personally I don't have any issue with polygamy if everyone is free to do whatever but the way most cultures practice it, it's unfair to women. Then again, that could also he said of "traditional" marriage in a lot of monogamous scenarios too.

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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    If this wasn't posted by a right winger farming anti lgbt sentiment I'd probably cringe at the school being excited to parade the kid around for being accepting of lgbt people.

    I hope Islam gets slept by JDM so I can laugh at people like this guy.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    based and hallalpilled

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This guy is pledging allegiance to two different cryptocurrency projects that are pretty much natural enemies and it's confusing

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Most cryptobros don't give a shit about the moral or ethical implications of what crypto they invest in, what they represent, etc. They just want line go up. No different than investors who invest in diverse ranges of companies. Hedge funds will invest in fossil fuel giants right alongside ecotech startups. The only thing that matters is return.

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    Once in Malaysia I met a guy who was in his early twenties. He looked perfectly ordinary from a western perspective, but it turned out he had three wives. Different cultures!

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    What is a guy with 3 wives supposed to look like?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I knew a guy who - about 20 years ago, slept with both women in a lesbian relationship. As in - they cheated on each other with him. And somehow they formed a workable triad out of that that was pretty darn stable for like 10 years. Until he got caught cheating on them (after months, apparently) with someone in their social group - a younger, monogamous, ‘party girl’-type woman.
    He didn’t want to break up with anyone, and all of them refused to ‘give up’ so now (10 years after cheating) he has two relationships - the triad, the “new” one, two houses, and now a kid with each woman.

    He looks and acts sort of like a grown up version of Max from A Goofy Movie (Goofy’s son), is still ‘fixing’ the muscle car he bought in his college years, and has a 99% complete collection of every edition of Playboy magazine.

    But to answer your question of what a guy with 3 (or more) wives should look like? Bill Paxton, circa 2011.

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