What they leave out is that ‘modern’ sexual pairing isn’t leaning towards monogamy, it’s leaning towards polyandry and normalized cuckoldry. Socially enforced monogamy is actually a more appalling prospect to women than polygamy:https://therationalmale.com/2018/12/10/the-new-polyandry/ …
Polygamy is still common in Africa, the Islamic world and parts of Asia. It makes civil war more likely. One of our most popular videos of 2018pic.twitter.com/CznO3SWAm1
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When you make women the primary sexual selectors in society you legally enforce the female sexual strategy (Hypergamy) as the baseline. When this happens women will naturally choose the top 20% of men and avoid the bottom 80%. This creates a female-set form of polyandry.
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Women will gladly share the men from the top 20%, forming soft-harems for them, if it means they can avoid the lower 80%
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Anyone thinking The Economist didn’t do their homework should really read their research here:https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2017/12/19/the-link-between-polygamy-and-war …
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It's interesting that the immediate reaction of many is to reject these hypotheses. It's assumed that women are coerced into polygamy and regarded as property. Not ever considered is that maybe women prefer to share a high status man than have a loser all to herself.
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Polygamy and polyandry benefit women, socially enforced monogamy benefits Beta men.
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But you are all going to hell, so there's that.
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Did Abraham and Jacob go to hell for being polygynous?
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Right...you forgot to mention polygamist mormons and Amish in Indiana, Utah, rest of North America....
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Oh yea it’s just as common as it’s in Africa and Middle East. You nailed it
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Wishing you a happy polygamy trip to Indiana or Utah this Holiday season Ben..
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Apart from polygamy was banned and made illegal by the Mormons in 1890
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There is a book called CIVIL WARS by David Armitage. May be
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This article is total nuts! I am ashamed of The Economist! There is bo point writing an article about people and places you have no knowledge of!!
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Not defending polygamy, but the analysis of South Sudan's civil war needs to be reinvestigated. High numbers of single men do not necessarily cause war. This is a poorly researched and argued article.
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I honestly doubt that.. How can having two or three wives contribute to a civil war in any shape or form. A civil war is a function of something other than polygyny
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If men can't access women it's a motivator for war. It's happened throughout history. When people were conquered and the men were killed or taken as slaves the women were taken as slaves or extra wives
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Do better.
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What about: because there were wars, there is polygamy, because men gets decimated ?
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