Comments on: The Worst Part About Living on a Polygamist Ranch http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/ FrontBurner® has been called the best blog in Dallas (repeatedly), a snarky celebration of ignorance, and a daily conversation about Dallas among the editors of D Magazine. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:45:16 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Bill M. http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-25251 Bill M. Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:25:44 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/#comment-25251 Well, Tim, there is also the gender dynamics that come with polygamous life. Only a few favored elders will be entitled to wives, which means that there will be a surplus of young men of marriageable age with no prospects. Other LDS polygamy spinoffs have solved this problem by simply expelling adolescent boys when they reach puberty. I don't know what they were doing out in West Texas. Perhaps they hadn't been in place long enough for young men to threaten the monopoly of the elders. It's a pleasant life style, I guess, if you're old and horny. Otherwise, not so much. Well, Tim, there is also the gender dynamics that come with polygamous life. Only a few favored elders will be entitled to wives, which means that there will be a surplus of young men of marriageable age with no prospects. Other LDS polygamy spinoffs have solved this problem by simply expelling adolescent boys when they reach puberty. I don’t know what they were doing out in West Texas. Perhaps they hadn’t been in place long enough for young men to threaten the monopoly of the elders. It’s a pleasant life style, I guess, if you’re old and horny. Otherwise, not so much.

]]> By: Daniel http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-25219 Daniel Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:40:13 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/#comment-25219 They must be made to know, in the gentlest way possible, that bopping is not a crime. They must be made to know, in the gentlest way possible, that bopping is not a crime.

]]> By: Jack http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-25192 Jack Thu, 24 Apr 2008 18:05:09 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/#comment-25192 It will be good for these kids to get out and be able to watch a pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears on the Disney network. Paris Hilton can show them the proper way to exit a car. Once given a good dose of reality television and some Grand Theft Auto, they will be the Americans we want them to be. I forget, now how many children have died while in the custody of CPS? It will be good for these kids to get out and be able to watch a pregnant Jamie Lynn Spears on the Disney network. Paris Hilton can show them the proper way to exit a car. Once given a good dose of reality television and some Grand Theft Auto, they will be the Americans we want them to be.

I forget, now how many children have died while in the custody of CPS?

]]> By: anon up north of there http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-25189 anon up north of there Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:46:28 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/#comment-25189 Perfect Saturday if - that is - you weren't under the impression that if you did any of those things, you'd anger up God and get your wife taken away and reassigned to someone else. Might just make it a little less relaxing. Not sure if I speak for any other FB readers, but I'm tired of the prattling on about religion and gender without doing much if any research. It's not even a Dallas topic. Swearing: In X's name, Xdamnit Cursing: Go to X you X Perfect Saturday if – that is – you weren’t under the impression that if you did any of those things, you’d anger up God and get your wife taken away and reassigned to someone else. Might just make it a little less relaxing. Not sure if I speak for any other FB readers, but I’m tired of the prattling on about religion and gender without doing much if any research. It’s not even a Dallas topic.

Swearing: In X’s name, Xdamnit
Cursing: Go to X you X

]]> By: Gerbils http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/comment-page-1/#comment-25180 Gerbils Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:07:03 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/04/24/the-worst-part-about-living-on-a-polygamist-ranch/#comment-25180 Add the quote about eating home-grown fresh foods and you have something that sounds somewhat idealistic to the far left (for the communitarian, agrarian social model) and the far right (for the spurning of corrupt modern cultural influences). Something for Wendell Berry *and* Ralph Reed. (Except for the polygamy, naturally.) Add the quote about eating home-grown fresh foods and you have something that sounds somewhat idealistic to the far left (for the communitarian, agrarian social model) and the far right (for the spurning of corrupt modern cultural influences). Something for Wendell Berry *and* Ralph Reed. (Except for the polygamy, naturally.)

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