Thursday, 28 December 2017
quote [ Plural marriage, bred of inequality, begets violence
This is one of the reasons why the Arab Spring erupted, why the jihadists of Boko Haram and Islamic State were able to conquer swathes of Nigeria, Iraq and Syria, and why the polygamous parts of Indonesia and Haiti are so turbulent. Polygamous societies are bloodier, more likely to invade their neighbours and more prone to collapse than others are. ] It's another version of economic inequality.
There's a successful US reality tv show about polygamy, and we know what reality tv can lead to.
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Cackzilla said @ 1:41am GMT on 28th Dec
Interesting article. Has a noticeable ethnocentric slant to how the information is being presented, but the data is interesting to examine.
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5th Earth said @ 2:26am GMT on 28th Dec
It's pretty obvious really. You have to do something with all the extra unmarried males.
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Hugh E. said @ 2:52am GMT on 28th Dec
Inequality is linked to war and rape.
“If a man with a gun says ‘I want to marry you’, you can’t say no" |
the circus said @ 4:56am GMT on 28th Dec
I'll have to read this. I've wondered what changes we'd have if females simply outnumbered males like 4 to 1.
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damnit said[2] @ 5:31am GMT on 28th Dec
[Score:1 Informative]
Rape culture.
See China.
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hellboy said[1] @ 6:06am GMT on 28th Dec
Not following your logic - China has a M:F ratio of 1.06 (or 1.14 for ages 15-24), not 0.25.
Interestingly, Qatar and the UAE are the worst by far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio The countries with the most women, proportionally, are places like the US Virgin Islands and Djibouti (just looking at ages 15-54, as men die off younger skewing the ratio in older populations). There's no country where women outnumber men in anywhere near the kind of lopsided ratio you see in Qatar. |
hellboy said @ 6:07am GMT on 28th Dec
...unless there is and it's just a very well-kept secret, damnit.
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the circus said @ 7:31pm GMT on 28th Dec
If FEMALES outnumbered MALES. If there were many, many more females than males. Males outnumbering females is probably a no brainer.
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5th Earth said @ 10:50pm GMT on 28th Dec
Ursula K. LeGuin wrote a story about this once, but the ratio was more like 1000:1. It wasn't very nice.
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Abdul Alhazred said @ 6:17am GMT on 28th Dec
We'd better keep an eye on Utah. Damn Mormons...
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norok said @ 2:04pm GMT on 28th Dec
"Because polygamy is illegal in most rich countries"
Isn't the reason for conflict existing in poor countries far more obvious than polygamy? It seems that both are effect rather than cause. |