Comment on moms rule
Kayana@ttrpg.network 1 day agoNope, that’s polygamy. Polygyny means many husbands for one wife.
Besides, neither of these would solve the aforementioned problem if we suppose that the birth rate of men and women is roughly the same.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The birth rate of XY babies is actually slightly higher than XX babies. On the other hand, babies with higher testosterone tend to have weaker immune systems and so are more susceptible to infant mortality from disease.
Otherwise, I’m not sure what the problem is with men who don’t have wives? They simply don’t reproduce. Throughout history men have reproduced at a lower rate than women. In polygynous cultures it’s only the very powerful and wealthy men who have many wives. The poor and powerless men have few or none.
Kayana@ttrpg.network 1 day ago
Huh, really? I thought there were slightly more women than men, but maybe that depends on the economies etc.
As for your second point, yes, exactly. They don’t reproduce. So it doesn’t matter if many men get one wife each, or if a few men get many wives each, the number of pregnancies won’t change, and the number of pregnancy-related deaths won’t change either. So (again), I don’t see how polygyny helps in this situation.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I guess I’ve forgotten what the problem was exactly. High maternal mortality? How is that not solved by having many redundant wives?
Comment105@lemm.ee 20 hours ago
You don’t just “have many redundant wives”. It starts out roughly 50/50 no matter what you do.
You either have more women by having a lot of single men, or a lot of dead men, or by taking women from other places.