http://www.bloggernews.net/18055 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:05:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/18055#comment-46594 Jancis M. Andrews Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:04:20 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/18055#comment-46594 The saddest aspect of this article is the writer's total lack of outrage that women can be treated as sexual collectibles. The way she talks about women, they are second-class citizens, merely things for men to use, and because this has been done for centuries she seems to believe it's OK for such abuse to continue. She appears to lack empathy for her own sex. Polygamy is not about sexual morality. Polygamy is about women's equality rights. Polygamy plunges women into poverty and curtails their lives, reducing them to the status of concubines in harems, and at the same time reduces their children to poverty also. For God's sake let's kick this selfish practice into the garbage can of history, where it belongs along with genital mutilation, bride price, wife-beating, and similar tyrannical practices that men throughout the centuries, because of their superior physical strength, have been able to inflict on women. The saddest aspect of this article is the writer’s total lack of outrage that women can be treated as sexual collectibles. The way she talks about women, they are second-class citizens, merely things for men to use, and because this has been done for centuries she seems to believe it’s OK for such abuse to continue. She appears to lack empathy for her own sex. Polygamy is not about sexual morality. Polygamy is about women’s equality rights. Polygamy plunges women into poverty and curtails their lives, reducing them to the status of concubines in harems, and at the same time reduces their children to poverty also. For God’s sake let’s kick this selfish practice into the garbage can of history, where it belongs along with genital mutilation, bride price, wife-beating, and similar tyrannical practices that men throughout the centuries, because of their superior physical strength, have been able to inflict on women.

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