Polygamy and Pseudo-Science

I found an article written by one of Associated Content's providers that suggested polygamy as a cure-all for dating dilemmas. In fact, it suggested that women who leave adulterous mates are ruining "perfectly good" relationships. This is absurd. Although I will not profess what it is like to date a man who thinks he has some "God-given right" to procreate with as many women as possible (while he's in a relationship), I find the tactic to legitimize the pseudo-scientific notion that men need to lay as many girlies as he can grab, preposterous. And if, say, we were in a society that did not abhor the lunacy of multiple partnerships, can you imagine the decline in women's rights this society would experience? Forty years of fighting for equality would flush right down the male ego-inflated drain.

Contrary to the argument, I do not find that "un-institutionalized" men are a rare find. Perhaps the writer spent too much time dating dangerous or depressive dames to come to such a foul conclusion about his own gender. Men and women, unlike popular opinion, are really more alike than we are different. Consider this: of all the 46 chromosomes humans have, only one differentiates the sexes. That means that, genetically speaking, we have only a 2% differentiation in our make-up. Can this account for the overly dramatic comparisons so many people allude to when trying to assert the benefits or detriments inherent to a gender? I think not. I don't think it's the 2% that we fret over, but rather the social "norms" that -lest we forget - we have ourselves created.

It is insulting to both genders to surmise that one or the other is this way or that; to assert that "a good man is hard to find" only promulgates the stupidity and rigidity of our backwards thinking. Isn't the goal of a society to progress, rather than deteriorate philosophical notions and social accord?