[quote=Hobie] . . . So why haven’t the feminists weighed in the polygamist lifestyle?[/quote]
This “feminist” has already “weighed in” here :=0
Polygamy is a blatant exploitation of women and minor girls. I realize it takes two to tango but the polygamist lifestyle ends up trapping women and girls for life before they have had a chance to grow up and decide what they actually want to do, IMO. Practically speaking, the only way females can “escape” from this lifestyle after bearing children is to leave them behind as their “patriarchs” are politically powerful in their region. The under-the-table “gifts” they bestow upon their elected officials at all levels sustains their lifestyle without governmental interference.
That is, if these patriarchs’ local city councilperson or county supervisor just happens to see a female “clan” member obviously in the third trimester of pregnancy and dressed in their “clan’s” typical dress exiting from their compound or doing errands in public and are not quite certain she is 18 years old (or was at the time of becoming pregnant), they will simply look the other way.
