Have you seen the previews from the show Sister Wives on TLC? It is like Big Love turned into reality television. I had pretty much given up on many TLC shows, but I have a feeling I will probably watch all of these. In the first five minutes TLC answers the question we all have. How does the sex work? Well, apparently the "husband" is on a rotating schedule with all of his "wives." He is only legally married to one woman but the entire family and 13 kids live in one house. When asked about whether there is anything kinky going on, the legal wife, Meri says, "Christine and Janelle and I each have our own bedrooms, and Kody is welcome in each of those bedrooms. Alone. That's just how it is, we don't go weird."
Uh huh. Yeah, don't go weird or anything. Because the family seems so happy, TLC had to do something to make us want to watch so the drama for the season will be that Kody has found a new woman he wants to be his wife too. She is 30 and the other wives think the new wife is a trophy wife and they are jealous.
This show is crazy, but I must watch.
Sorry not my type of show to watch especially when you are married and still find a way to screw around.
ReplyDeleteThis is bullshit. If this show depicted Muslims, everyone would freak out, have the children removed and send the man to jail, no matter how "happy" they seem.
ReplyDeleteDon't see what the big deal with polygamy is. If people of legal age knowingly and willingly enter a polygamous marriage it's OK with me. Stupid, but OK.
ReplyDeleteI never understood why polygamy is illegal. So what if these CONSENTING adults want to marry each other; it would save the taxpayers in the long run because usually the other, legally single wives claim government benefits for their children. If they were legally married they wouldn't be able to do that.
ReplyDeleteKathryn, I don't mean this as a challenge, but I'm not sure I would agree. Considering how many honor killings take place in the US each year, I always got the opposite impression. Maybe it's just me?
ReplyDeleteAs for polygamy--if that's your thing, more power to you. Me, I just don't believe in sharing some things. (Then again, that makes it sound as if people are like objects to be "shared", and that is definitely not the case.)
I'll watch.
ReplyDeleteI hate reality TV, but I find myself fascinated with this subject. I'll probably watch too.
ReplyDeleteThe FDLS forcing the young girls into it makes my sick down to the very core of my being.
ReplyDeletePeople who are totally modern-day, consenting, educated, willing and happy participants doing it doesn't rankle me quite so much.
It's the weirdo, religion-related forcing/underage thing that kills the livin' fuck outta me.
Hell, I might not mind a sister wife myself if she would sit around all day cleaning so I can do my 12 hrs/day work and not be bothered with domestic shit. I might could also go for somebody keeping Mr. Horny over here off my back one or two nights a week. At 46 I am finally getting to where I don't crave sex every day.
I know, TMI... ;)
Weird...I wouldn't like it. But if they're fine with it then why not?
ReplyDeleteIn theory I don't care if you want to be a polygamist. But the reality is it breeds poverty, especially when they have bazillions of offspring. And, I find it very degrading as a woman. Why don't we ever hear of 1 woman with 5 husbands? Oh, that's right. Usually, picking up after 1 is enough.
ReplyDeleteThis pisses me off so badly.
ReplyDeleteIdiot politicians go on and fucking on about gay marriage ruining the sanctity of marriage. Yet not a one of them says a thing about shit like this. Why? How?
Sometimes I really am disgusted with the state of our country and the ass-backward policies we have.
Very funny Susan!
ReplyDeleteI just watched the promo. So you mean to tell me this guy can take care of 12 kids? Really? And you don't think any of them wonder why Daddy has three wives? I amend my first statement. I think I was too nice. This is fuckery.
ReplyDeleteYou got to love Utah. I'll probably watch it, only because I just moved back here :)
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, I haven't been to this site in weeks, and I open the page to a Utah polygamy story.
@selenakyle - ITA about the FLDS. DISGUSTING!!
The FLDS is turning out kids with terrible genetic disorders (Google "FLDS" and "fumarase deficiency," or just check out Phoenix New Times' series) as a result of the rampant inbreeding. There's nothing, NOTHING, benign about this stuff, and it's shameful that TLC is giving the FLDS a platform.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone thinking this arrangement is OK thinks about finances? Without a proper "contract", will all kids go to college, no matter what?
ReplyDeleteThe legal marriage is better, but the single mothers might get screwed (no pun intended). This always sounds selfish to the max, and a biggest benefit to the man, unless he is on the Forbes 400.
How do the kids cope? Imagine having to constantly explain your many mothers and 1 father to friends. Kids need normal.
Selenakyle, Too funny!!!!
ReplyDeleteRead "Under the Banner of Heaven" by Jon Krakauer. Totally fascinating and disturbing at the same time. You will really be freaked out about the FLDS after this read, I could not put it down!
What kind job does he have that supports a family of this size? Almost all of the polygamists collect food stamps, and welfare to exist. They are societal parasites. They are leeches, and giving this bizarre lifestyle credibility after it's exposed what they do to young girls, forcing them into "marriage beds" at 14 or 15 years old with men in their 50's & 60's is nothing short if disgusting. I've blocked TLC, I can't support something like this under any circumstances, it's a cruel lifestyle that is abusive towards women and children. TLC should be ashamed of themselves.
ReplyDeleteI am obviously not very educated on the subject, but isn't polygamy illegal? If it is, then I think it sucks that TLC is glorfying illegal behavior in the interest of entertainment. I know there is another show on the subject as well, but that one is not real and therefore not the same in my eyes. These are real people doing something that is illegal and being filmed doing it. *again ignore this if it is legal in Utah.
ReplyDeleteAnd I totally agree with whoever above said that people can go on and on about the sanctity of marriage and deny gay people the right to marry, but this is ok???
I will not be watching.
I wonder what the heck he does, too. And it sounds like he decided to become Mormon in order to justify the fact he just can't help falling in love and getting married.
ReplyDelete"I have adopted a faith that embraces that lifestyle. In fact, it recommends it."
I think I'll pass.
oh i will be watching the SHIT out of this!
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'll give it a shot too. And I don't understand what the problem is with polygamy as long as it's between consenting adults. It's not a life I would choose for myself but I really don't see anything wrong with it.
ReplyDeleteMy curiousity is peaked - especially after reading "Under the Banner of Heaven". I will not though watch it. I am afraid TLC is showing the ideal polygamist lifestyle (so be it between consenting adults) I am afraid the show will allow the blind eye to stay turned with the super colonies where there is in breeding, and girls being forced into marriage.
ReplyDeleteI, for one, volunteer to be the subject when they finally decide to turn the tables and do "brother-husbands"...what's good for the gander, after all.
ReplyDeleteIf the guy hadn't married any of them and they were all just shacking up, there would be no real scandal...throw the word 'marriage' in there, and everyone is up in arms. As long as everyone is happy, who does it hurt?
Why isn't polygamy legal?
ReplyDeleteBecause it is a lifestyle that is generally imposed on very young women who are uneducated, poor, isolated, and very often victims of abuse.
Because polygamy shows a high correlation with high levels of incest, child abuse and wife battering.
Because polygamy leads to widespread reliance on welfare and welfare fraud, as well as tax fraud.
Because limited resources of a single father spread between multiple children often leads to neglect and levels of child poverty.
A 44 year old woman entering into a polyamorous relationship with a man not for the purpose of bearing children is a very far cry from a 15 year old who has never met more than 100 people in her lifetime, used the internet or traveled out of her county being married to someone twice her age.
At least there's a fatty, that's nice to see.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of shit this is.
ReplyDeleteWho's smoking a fatty?
ReplyDeleteEnty:
ReplyDeleteYou watch.
I already vomited my meal of pasta.
I'm not that desperate for entertainment.
Thanks, though, for announcing it.
/retch
TLC used to have some decent programing. They've stepped over the edge with this IMHO.
ReplyDeleteMaybe I'm just reaching, but having read a bunch of books by women who've escaped FLDS, I have to wonder who bankrolled this in the first place. Is it the first step to desensitizing us to the idea of polygamy? That way it's easier to explain away the 15 and under girls who are forced into it?
Jenny's right. I lived in Utah for several short periods of time and they certainly want us to be desensitized about all this, including the inbreeding that is requiring even more health care for survival. Maybe it's the medical community that's pushing this so big pharma can make yet more money off the misery of humans. Out there it's all about the quantity of life, not the quality of life. But I do love these articles that make me even happier that I am single. Now, I'll go figure out what shoes I will wear for my date tonight!
ReplyDeleteWell said, Jenny. And I don't think kathryn's that far off in her assessment that if this were a muslim family, people would be outraged.
ReplyDeleteNo way in hell I'll watch this.
I have watched this and it amazes me! I can't understand how these women or any other person alive could truely be ok with sharing their spouse! I don't know much about their beliefs, but I'm guessing that they are taught that their feelings of wanting to be the only one for their husband are wrong. I am married myself and I love my husband more than anything or anyone (other than God)and I find this extremely hard to understand how, if they have that type of love, they could ever even pretend that this is ok. Adultery is wrong because it hurts those involved in all kinds of ways and this is no different! They may try to pretend that everything is great, but they are lying to themselves just as much as everyone else. And, if you want to look at this biblically, then study-up because God never intended for a man to have more than one wife. He created Adam and Eve, not Eve, Eva, ect. There were lots of instances in the Bible where a man took more than one wife, but God didn't tell him to do it (there just wasn't a man-made law forbidding it). For some men, wanting more than one woman is just their weakness. How convenient that there is a present day religion that upholds this!
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