So I read this book 'Sister Wives' this week. It's also an American reality TV show, about a polygamist family of the fundamentalist Mormon church. It's so interesting, I really enjoyed the book, so I'm now watching the show.
I'm a feminist of course, but I don't have a problem per se with polygamy. The issue with the man with many wives, I can see how it could be an issue of inequality, but the fact is, these people make a choice, they choose to live that way and it makes them happy to live their faith that way. It isn't hurting anyone, it's not hurting the children, no one is being maltreated or having ideas forced upon them. In many ways, that kind of communal living, it's close to socialism and it's a positive thing. Everybody contributes, everybody plays a role and pulls their weight according to their strengths. To everyone according to their needs and all that rhetoric.
So it's actually a nice show and a lovely family and the relationships are real and realistic and I'm definitely enjoying it.
And obviously, it's not something I'd be interested in, but I know for a fact that loving one person doesn't lessen your ability or capacity to love someone else. Whether talking about you-know-who or just parents with multiple children or friends, or anything, one relationship doesn't have to affect another.
And the idea of sister wives that you have a family with, and lots of kids and people and very close, what's wrong with that?
Nothing. I'm actually against polygamy being illegal. Why the hell is it? Like, why shouldn't consenting adults be allowed to marry and bring up families as they choose? Just like gay marriage, people should be allowed to marry however they want, frigging hell. Why is that so hard?
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