Re: OT: Mormons (was Re: Survey)

I've seen it several ways, honestly.  I like my way because it's easy to
confuse with "polygamy"...

And... I'm not surprised.  After all, the reasons that men were hunter-types
had a lot more to do with physical attributes (and their ill-suitedness to
actually bearing children) than notions of social liberation.

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> -----Original Message-----
> I thoght it was spelt "polygyny", with triple "y"s? That's what
> one'd expect
> from the Greek, at any rate.
>
> Noteworthily, in both
> cases gender roles seems to be quite traditionalistic; men as the primary
> hunters and warriors, women as the primary child-rearers and
> food-preparers
> (good ammo in discussions with feminists, incidentially). In the
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