Sister Wives....

This show is like a train wreck...I don't really want to look but I have to, I can't not look, it's crazy!  As a watcher of Big Love I was very much looking forward to this new show which is about a polygamist family living in (shocker) Utah.  This family has 1 husband named Kody, 3 wives & 13 kids & they all live in one home which is comprised of 3 apartments.  Basically the family has 2 working parents, one mom & one sad lady, and 13 kids ranging in age from 16 to fresh & they are about to welcome a 4th wife with her 3 kids so I'm assuming that the new woman must be divorced but I won't know for sure until next week.

So, wife #1 is Meri & she's the sad one...she has 1 daughter & has never been able to have more kids, she really didn't say much about what she does all day but given her sullen state every time they showed her I'd guess she spends most of it in bed.  Wife #2 is Janelle...she has 5 kids but she seems to be the smart one; first of all she was a friend of Meri's & not a Mormon so ending up in the lifestyle she's in wasn't exactly in her plans & I'm sure that Meri wasn't really expecting her husband to marry a friend of hers either. On a side note Meri stated that she has jealousy issues but the other women really didn't seem to.  Second she's the one who works all day, she leaves for work at like 6 am & doesn't get home until 7 pm or after & each day when she gets home her kids have been cared for & her dinner has been made by another wife.  Personally I think she signed up for the union strictly to have free day care, maid, and a cook.  Then wife #3 is Christine, she has 5 kids w/one on the way & they all have some of the worst names ever & she's the mom of all of the 13 kids all day, or at least the ones who are home...the rest of the kids are no longer home schooled & they go to a school for polygamists.  Christine loves to cook & do woman/mom stuff so that's exactly what she does all day long.  Robyn will be #4 but I don't know anything about her yet.

Now, watching Big Love I've learned plenty about these types of people but that is scripted TV so by watching this I'm learning a lot more & am more confused than ever.  Since being a polygamist is illegal how can there be a school for children of polygamists?  How can this show be on the air & these people not be getting arrested or at least losing their jobs? 

Some of my biggest questions about this whole polygamy thing is why can't the wives go get other husbands to bring into the family?  Why is it all about the men?  What kind of women have such low self esteem & lack of individuality that they would allow other women to share their husband?  I mean, I get the women who were raised in the lifestyle, it's what they know so they tend to stick with it but the others who weren't raised that way...how can they just look the other way while their husband is in the next apartment banging someone else?  This entire situation of polygamy benefits only the husband, the wives get absolutely nothing out of it besides a stretched out vag & a lack of self worth.  I mean, this husband reminds me of freaking Spicoli, he's in desperate need of a haircut & the prick drives a freaking Lexus convertible with a back seat that isn't even big enough to hold 2 grown adults let alone the not so lean 2 wives he has.  Meri isn't bad looking but she's really plain, Janelle is a train wreck, and Christine is ok looking but not all that.  None of this makes sense to me...if you are going to have multiple wives wouldn't you want them to be hot?  Having to put up with all of that PMS & nagging from 3 wives & not one of them is hot...what's the freaking point?  I can't wait for the rest of this season because I want to see some sort of mayhem at some point...with 17 kids & 4 wives something interesting is bound to happen.