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[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

Muslim men can have multiple wives (maximum 5 I believe) as long as they can provide for them. Muslim women are only allowed to have a single husband.

The joke is that the school thought that the kid’s family was super progressive meanwhile in reality it was super patriarchal

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

Thanks, I got the humor, what I'm wondering about is what's the predominant reason people in general object to polygamy, regardless of whether it's Islam or Mormons or whatever.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (6 children)

People confuse polygamy with polygyny.

Polygamy is when one person can marry multiple people.

Polygyny is when one person can marry multiple women.

Polyandry is when one person can marry multiple men.

There's no specific word for when one person can marry multiple nonbinary people.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Polyamory sounds close; if you presume that the other people would be allowed multiple marriages as well.

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