Comment on moms rule
Kayana@ttrpg.network 17 hours agoHuh, 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 16 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 9 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 8 hours ago
Yes I mentioned that earlier in the thread. Polygyny = some men have many wives, others have none.
Comment105@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Which does nothing to help with the issue of mothers dying from pregnancy, unless there’s something more that you know?