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…become a seething mass in society. Unless enough men are, like, dying in wars, polygamy creates a sex-trade culture much bigger than what Schopenhauer describes.

(Misogyny, obviously.)

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.” (“One” is obviously male.)

“There are 80,000 prostitutes in London alone: and what are they if not sacrifices on the altar of monogamy?”

“…while among polygamous peoples every woman gets taken care of, among the monogamous the number of married women is limited and there remains over a quantity of unsupported women who, in the upper classes, vegetate on as useless old maids, and in the lower are obliged to undertake laborious work they are constitutionally unfitted for…” (Schopenhauer is thinking of work in textile factories and the like.)

Maybe Schopenhauer was under the impression all the men were dying off in a war, they kept not showing up to his lectures, after all. If only Hegel and scheduling conflicts did not exist, smh, alas

LOL

among many other insane points in that essay lol

Philosophy gives me headaches. This review reminds me why.