tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083130180732134503.post1494180251236704988..comments2024-02-10T00:09:14.970-05:00Comments on Sister Wives Blog: From Slate.com: Is Polygamy Really So Awful?Mister Sisterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01026116196375975580noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083130180732134503.post-24367961013297046302012-01-31T15:08:17.172-05:002012-01-31T15:08:17.172-05:00Go Goji - that's what i thought, too, as soon ...Go Goji - that's what i thought, too, as soon as i read that! lol.... but then i quickly remembered those thousands of ridics enamored fans i saw on Brown's FB page and some of the women even volunteering to be Kody's next wife! but i doubt any of them would be reading this informative article anyway so, i say to those completely ignorant women, "go for it, sweeties!! then come crying back to us re:the real Reality Show drama you get to live! HAH!" but i would just beg them not to bring any more innocent victims into it in the way of more Kody offspring. but i think they'd be dumb enough to do that anyway, too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083130180732134503.post-79795375229279485072012-01-31T13:23:58.655-05:002012-01-31T13:23:58.655-05:00"Despite what you see on TV"????? They ..."Despite what you see on TV"????? They must not be watching the same reality show I am. This family looks incredibly dysfunctional. Those women are so sad, while parroting back how great it is and how much they all love each other and get along.<br /><br />This show actually changed my previously neutral view on polygamy. Really, it's kind of heartbreaking, not a glamorous reality show life.Go Goji!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083130180732134503.post-42522776178664827072012-01-31T07:21:23.200-05:002012-01-31T07:21:23.200-05:00If we're only looking at North America then po...If we're only looking at North America then polygamy should absolutely be outlawed. At the end of the day those that want to practice polygamy will do so anyways but there should definately not be a carte blanche in support of it. It perpetuates patriarchy and misogyny. It endangers children, women and even boys. A stupid reality show about a group of very uneducated individuals trying to pass polygamy off as a warm, fuzzy and benign institution is not the reality, TV shows are never reality. In theory like everything else in theory it could work but in reality it doesn't. At it's best it marginalizes women at it's worst as in the Canadian Shafia case it is murderous and horrific.oh pleeezzzznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1083130180732134503.post-86453238980541483202012-01-30T23:41:44.116-05:002012-01-30T23:41:44.116-05:00For the kids, I think it's stress-having to co...For the kids, I think it's stress-having to compete for what little scraps of attention the father gives them, and not feeling as close/protective of their siblings and half siblings since they're competing for dad's affection. In some of the books I've read (Escape, by Caroline Jessop, for example), jealous co-wives can't outwardly, physically hurt each other, so they go after each others kids instead. Jessop also writes of some of her own children being physically abused by one of her sister-wives and her kids being sexually abused by half-siblings. Kids are left in a mentally fragile state, since the people they trust and who are supposed to protect them (family members) are abusing them.SheilaAnnnoreply@blogger.com