• Owl@mander.xyz
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    22 days ago

    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

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      22 days ago

      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.