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Family is at best weakly defended against normophobia. Normophobic consensus operates by smearing every argument from normativity or nature by association with the specter of fascism. And as Wilhelm Reich implied in the words I have used as an epigraph, the very givenness of family patterns aligns the family with constraint, with limitations on desire, and hence-in the moral landscape of progress-as-freedom-with the authoritarian bogeyman.
Patrick points out that polygamy was also the central reason that Islam expanded rapidly. As richer Muslims all took four wives for themselves, the majority of young men were left without any women. To defuse the situation in Arabia, those men were told that they had the Allah-given right to raid neighboring non-Muslim area, set themselves up as master, and take as many women as they wanted from among those who refused to convert.
Funny to see a woman writer conclude that The Red Pill is true. Or maybe not so funny, since the evidence is obvious and overwhelming.