Comment on moms rule
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 23 hours agoThe 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 22 hours 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 21 hours 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 14 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.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yes I mentioned that earlier in the thread. Polygyny = some men have many wives, others have none.