#polygyny

[zuko-always-lies]

Historically Accurate Polyamory and ATLA?

One thing that's inexplicably on my mind right now is that East Asian royal families were generally historically polygamous, so if you wanted to have Azula or Zuko or King Kuei or some other Fire Nation or Earth Kingdom royal or noble take multiple partners, that would actually be reasonably historically accurate. It seems like the Fire Nation royalty has avoided polygamy in recent decades (or you would expect the royal family to be much, much bigger), but isn't the point at the end of the series that they are supposed to return to old ways?

Interestingly, some of this applies to the Water Tribes as well. Although I don't know nearly as much about this subject as I know about East Asian royalty and I don't want to say anything too confidentially, I know some Inuit groups sometimes practiced polygamy. I also know that some groups sometimes practiced "spouse exchanges" where two couples would temporarily exchange spouses in order to create fictive kinship between them. Although the SWT is not identical to historical Inuit groups and the NWT in particular seems very, very different with it's city and state, I think you could definitely justify polyamory being in the tradition of both Water Tribes.

While the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Water Tribes might have traditions of polygyny (where one man marries multiple women), the Air Nomads might have a very different traditions. They are inspired at least in part by Tibetan Buddhism, and Tibet has it's own traditions of plural marriage. Historically, the most common type was fraternal polyandry, in which two or more brothers would take the same wife. However, apparently polygyny, conjoint marriages, and of course monogamous marriages were also historically acceptable in Tibetan society. Of course, there were specific economic reasons why fraternal polyandry made sense in Tibet, which might not apply to the Air Nomads and we really don't get a sense of how their marriages and family life might look like, but it's another reminder not to force their culture into "Western marriage norms, circa 2007."

With all the various forms of plural marriage that would theoretically be culturally appropriate, I think you can culturally justify just about any form of polyamory you are interested in writing.

[mapsontheweb]

Legality of Polygyny (having multiple wives) across the world

[mineowncreationizm]

Social Rules I Do Not Abide By

Rough Draft- 6/27/2023

When the man at the rental car shop

Asks me our relation

I have to pause

Before opening my mouth

The man already knows

That the woman who just left

Is my partner

I am so proud to be with you

But if I call you my husband

I do not know

How the man will respond

I also do not know

If he sees the name

Of your wife on the policy

If he does

It would call my answer into question

Because according to the normal rules

You may have only one

And so,

When the man at the rental car shop

Asks me our relation-

I grit my teeth

And just say, "family"

[polygynyblk]

I don't think a lot of Western women are emotionally mature enough to be in a polygynyist relationship. They're not interested in helping the group do anything. Women in the East understand that it's all about the group.

[antletic]

relatedness-tracking of a worker ant under various queen conditions. full circles are (diploid) females and half circles are (haploid) males. Yellow/orange = mothers genes, blue = father's genes, purple = non-father male genes, green and pink = non-maternal queen genes.

glossary:

Monogamy: wherein the single queen of a nest mates with only one male. Under this condition, sisters are more closely related to each ohter than they are to their offspring.

Polyandry: wherein the single queen of a nest mates with multiple males, resulting in some sisters not being as closely-related to one another as others.

polygyny: condition in ants wherein a single nest will have multiple reproductively-active queens. i illustrated the relatedness of these non-maternal (relative to our focal worker) queens whether they mated with our focal worker's father or not.

[frothytundra]

Polyandry

A friend and I were discussing polyandry the other day and trying to figure out why a woman would have multiple husbands. We were having this conversation because one of her adult children is visiting Bhutan where polyandry was once considered to be normal, and that knowledge triggered her curiosity. We began, of course, from our own experience of husbands and we struggled to understand why…

[coachdebruyns]

The idea that allowing polygyny would create a collapse in society is a fallacy

Polygyny solves the problem of hypergamy as follows: Already in the Western world about 30% of young men under thirty are virgins while 100% of adult women have had or are having sex. Polygyny solves this problem because it requires that the man stay long-term with the women he wants. In other words, he doesn’t cycle through hundreds of women. He will only have his cohort of women, and once he…

[mythoughtscw]

Black women are so selective these days so it's not going to surprise me that a lot of these women are going to be single and some are going to be childless. Black women are not having children at the same rate as they used to. Single motherhood seems like an badge of honor to a lot of black women and women in general. Our population will be affected as a whole.

Polygeny could improve our numbers in population here in America as well as the world. Black ppl could out bread other races, creating a more equal society for black ppl to live. Polygeny (one man most wives) could be the equalizer within the society to not only build a black nation but also finance one.

Everything we have done to build collectively has always been met with sabotage. A form of polyamory, promiscuity, and abortion being used as birth control has crippled and made our community a matriarchy, and that will fail. Black women are #1 in abortions, killing our chances as a ppl to grow in this nation.

[polykinghebrew]

Me and my beautiful Queen. Seeking our sister wife to join the family soon. Yah willing

[zakirnaikpersonal]

Why is Polygyny Allowed in Islam? - Dr Zakir Naik 

[princeofteevs]

David Eden Lane, #14Words: The Old Testament teaches living within the reality of this life. It is about taking power, women, and territory. It is about being absolutely ruthless in racial or tribal chauvinism. The race or tribe that follows its ruthless parables and allegories the closest will survive and prosper. Those who deny its philosophy will be enslaved and destroyed.

[polygynyblk]

Are 80% of the women having sex with the 20% of the men. That is a form of polygyny with no marriage.

[2thinktalk]

The Polygamous Family

Polygamy or Polygyny What kind of Family is it? The Polygamous Family involve one individual having multiple spouses simultaneously. The most common form is the man marrying multiple wives. This form is called polygyny. The other form, though rare, is termed polyandry, where the woman is married to more than one husband. The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab…

[loudlylovingreview]

Brenna R. Hassett: The Evolution of the Human Pair Bond

Our species stands out from the animal kingdom in many ways. Some of them are obvious: we are big-brained primates who use tools and language, a social species with symbols, culture, and art. These are all artifacts of our evolution, the process by which our ancestors found adaptations that allowed them to succeed in a natural world that is often red in tooth and claw. Often, however, we think of…

[coachdebruyns]

The problems of marriage in the Islamic world and its solution.