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Great article, thanks!
Gee, Who Could have seen THAT coming?
Generally, a good read, but I disagree here. Polygamy actually flourished amount Native American tribes and was a humane way to care for the surplus of women which resulted from constant warfare and hunting accidents. The man did not do everything, not even close. His job was to hunt, fish, protect and provide. Once the game was harvested, the entire workload was turned over to the women. There was some division of labor. One wife might be skilled at meal preparation, another at processing and food preservation, a third at child care, another at making clothing or sewing hides, etc.
They were not completely without rights. Among the Sioux, the women owned the property and could divorce an abusive husband simply by setting his few personal belongings outside the teepee. Of course, they also forfeited his protection and the food he might bring home. But if they were good workers or otherwise desirable, another man would take them as his wives.
I'm not saying the system was perfect, not by any means. Just that it was more natural than the modern invention of feral males, female headed households and invented gay marriages.
A child, at least, had a decent opportunity to grow up useful in a polygamous society, much more so than the alternatives mentioned.
Thanks.
This is excellent and well written.
Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972 has a lot to do with it.
This law has become a tool to enforce political correctness and has played a large role in turning public schools into indoctrination centers to pussify boys.
When boys grow up in an environment that prohibits pointing a finger, playing tag or dodge ball, or innocently expressing their natural attraction to a female classmate you cannot expect them all to grow up to be Type A manly men.
Even men raised in two parent families can suffer from this malaise in adulthood, because with real marriage virtually non-existent in our society, what point is there to a man’s life? Being a wage slave to buy yourself toys, or make your child support payments is not a very fulfilling existence for a man, and it certainly doesn’t encourage one to strive for much.
This modern trend has developed, IMO, because of the lack of outside threat to the society.
Having experienced an unprecedented period of relative peace, our country has turned inward and become obsessed with trying to change human nature. Nearly all the problems mentioned in the article have occurred because the MEN that were in charge, facing no outside threat, allowed themselves to be emasculated.
If adversity such as what Americans faced during the 1st half of the 20th Century ever reoccurs, I believe a return to the old standards would be quite possible.
We’ll see.
Political and academic leaders, obeying the commands of the most influential constituents of both political parties and sponsors of the media, instituted many policies and passed many laws over the past few decades to bring the situation about. Very few of us tried to oppose the anti-family, anti-competition policies and laws.
Have fun. Enjoy the slide.
Compare the Frankfurt School’s agenda:
1. The creation of racism offences.
2. Continual change to create confusion
3. The teaching of sex and homosexuality to children
4. The undermining of schools’ and teachers’ authority
5. Huge immigration to destroy identity.
6. The promotion of excessive drinking
7. Emptying of churches
8. An unreliable legal system with bias against victims of crime
9. DEPENDENCY ON THE STATE OR STATE BENEFITS
10. Control and dumbing down of media
11. ENCOURAGING THE BREAKDOWN OF THE FAMILY
There is much in this article that is true as to cause and effect. However, being a stickler for definitions, a matriarchy must also be a society where women run the tribe or country, a situation rarely seen in history. The writer confuses female run HOUSEHOLDS with female dominated SOCIETIES-A big mistake.
Excellent take. I would only have this to add:
G-d planted a garden. He needed someone to till the garden so he made a man (in his image I might add) from the dust of his garden. He put the man in the midst of his garden, gave him his first job, and told him he was responsible for tilling and maintaining the garden.
In his garden G-D also planted some trees, but two of them were very special. One tree was the tree of life and the other was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. G-D told the man he could eat any fruit from his trees but not from the tree of knowledge. If the man screwed up and eat that fruit, he would surely die.
G-D in his infinite wisdom and foresight knew that man was going to need some help so he made a helpmate from the man’s rib while he was sleeping. G-D then introduced the helpmate to man. The man was in awe that G-D was able to take his bones and flesh and make him a helpmate. He named the helpmate woman.
Thus, G-D created Adam and Eve and established their relationship to one another. Unfortunately, they ate the forbidden fruit and were tossed out of the garden to surely die as G-D had warned. But before they died, G-D had given them the means to join together and create new life (children). G-D told them to go forth, be fruitful, and multiply. Thus started the circle of life that exists through today. The equations of the cycle of life are given below:
1 man + 1 man = null
1 women + 1 women = null
1 man + 1 women = children
People there should be no confusion. It takes a man and a woman to conceive a child. It takes a loving father and mother to raise that child. And each parent has a role and responsibilities to their children to help and encourage their success in life.
Success in life starts with good parents. Children learn something (good or bad) from each of their parents. Children deprived of this one loving father/one loving mother relationship have a much harder time finding success. Some children overcome tremendous odds to become good parents. They are usually the ones who want the next generation to have a better life than they did. Others will never be good parents for whatever reason and leave their responsibilities to society.
Children are the future of this nation. Children need good parents. Children need to become good parents.
For everyone worried about the coming of polygamy, you’re not thinking it through. Polygamy is a form of marriage, and marriage imposes responsibilities under the law. Right now, polygamous groups are not anjoined by law, and so their members (i.e. the males) can walk away when things get rough. I propose that the ability to walk away is at least as big a draw to these people as the multiple women. Take away the ability to leave - and it won’t happen. Oh, they’ll all still play together. And the promises about marriage will be used to get women to participate. But the marriage will never happen, because that would stop the games, and create the legal liabilities. Nope - won’t happen.
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