Pablo wrote:Ive always asked people (read mamas), for 1,999,900 years men were openly polygamous, in the last 50 - 100 years we are told we must be monogomous. Evolution takes time. Even those strictly monogomous men have really tried as the nature of the human male species is polygamous.
I once told my wife that womens fight for equality started with the discovery of the birth control pill. This allowed them to control when they got pregnant. This was in the early seventies and since then things have been uphill (or is it downhill). If i died and came back after 100 years, women will be marring the men and in another 100 years one woman will marry manay men.
Think about it.
Pablo.... i get your drift which actually may not reach the point of women marrying many men because i dont know where the man's ego will be that time but the way things are going, women might be marrying men in not so distant future..... (I pity my son!)
However, i think the problem hasnt really been women's expectations only. it has been the economy. Trust me, even if you were given another wife today, you will quickly run to the opposite direction. why? as much as you(man) would want to be polygamous, the economy and its demands does no allow you to maintain such union.... and especially, when the society still looks up to the man to be the 'bread winner'. In those 1,999,990 years, there were no 'expensive' education, no working 12 hrs to put a meal on the table, no rents, no taxes, life was bliss, if anything, the kids and women did most of the work. Demands were less even for the man and hence, he had the time to put his house in order.
In today's order, the problem is the limited resources... that what women guard with their lives when they hit the roof at a mention of a girlfriend leave alone a wife.