A woman in a polygamous marriage has decided to blog about her experiences. This one isn't a fundamentalist Mormon, but a fundamentalist Muslim. One neat facet of her writing is the abundance of ways she misspells the word "polygamous". For instance, the name of her blog is Polygynous Blessings.
For all the ways she extols the benefits of polygamy, she sure seems to have a lot of drama in her life. For instance, take a look at this excerpt from a post.
so last weekend in a discussion between myself and three other sisters, which was really a discussion between myself and one sister with two other sisters intercepting at their leisure, i made some statements about my sister-wife that were misconstrued as me making hubby's marriage to her sound like a "charity case." one sister present, after said conversation, proceeded to tell another sister who was not even in the room when the conversation was happening, that i made my sister-wife out to seem like a "charity case," and eventually the news reached my sister-wife's ears. needless to say, she called me and we talked about it and everything is cool. but i just thought i would post an "official" statement to the world:
MY SISTER-WIFE IS NOT A CHARITY CASE!!!!
It's not my business to judge anybody. Therefore, be sure I'm not trying to make fun of her. I understand she comes from a certain cultural and religious reality that I do not share, and she has to live with it.
With that said, polygamy in the West is still outlawed. I'm not going to argue whether polygamy should be legal or not. However, should immigrants complain about discrimination against their lifestyle when they know this lifestyle is against the law? Another way of stating this: what is the rationality of leaving your country — where polygamy is acceptable — in order to move to a country where it is inacceptable? And then, why complain?
On a personal note, I do not know why anyone would want multiple wives. I simply don't know how you can be that attentive to more than one wife. Hell, I'm having a hard time being attentive to multiple friends. Multiple wives seems to be a headache.
1 comments:
Polygyny is actually the correct term for "plural wives." The term "polygamy" means multiple spouses - husbands or wives, while polygyny is the more accurate term for a man having multiple wives. So, she hasn't misspelled the word.
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