Re: [UUPoly-L] definitions; A NEW WORD NEEDED

["Douglass Mitchell Modisett" <mmodis@3oaks.com>]

Dear  Cat and other UUpolys
   Part of the problem is the inadequacy of our language.  A group of wives 
for a single husband is call a Harem, or better spelled a
'Her-em'. and a group of husbands for a single wife could and should be 
called a 'His-em.'  Mitch

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <catdeville@cox.net>
To: <uupoly-l@uupa.org>; "Darlene Pagano" <dpagano@igc.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [UUPoly-L] Whoops, Overreaching there Dave.


> Darlene Pagano <dpagano@igc.org> wrote:
> <<(by
> definition <which you don't want us to get into, I do understand> Polygamy 
> means
> multiple wives <always defined as women> for one man, never multiple 
> partners
> for women <nor male partners for men>)>>
>
> I have to jump in here everytime someone misdefines this word.  No, 
> Darlene, poly_gamy_ means multiple *spouses*.  There are three types of 
> polygamy.  Group marriage (multiple spouses of both genders, rare in any 
> society and without any more definative name than polygamy), poly_andry_ 
> (one wife, multiple husbands) and poly_gyny_ (one husband, multiple 
> wives.)
>
> People commonly mean polygyny when they say polygamy, and religious 
> polygamists in the Yahweh religions (Mormons, Muslims, (historically) Jews 
> and (a few sects of) Christians) are inevitably polygynous, not 
> polygamous, but there are other religious faiths out there which support 
> poly_gamy_ in all it's forms, as long as it's consensual.  I have been a 
> polygamist (more specifically of the polyandrous type), so it really irks 
> me when folks ignore the fact that the definition f polygamy is "The 
> condition or practice of having more than one spouse at one time. "  The 
> whole idea that polygamy=polygyny is entirely a cultural, sexist 
> redefinition of the word.
>
> What we need to do is to separate the idea of who is marrying whom or how 
> many of what gender(s) and simply enforce the modern idea that marriage 
> must be consensual.
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