I think the selfish comment takes the cake. In many polygamous marriages i've seen, the wives rarely benefit due to the lack of wisdom and self-centered attitude of the husband.
The problem isn't polygamy, lets put that to the side. The real issue is that many men only seem to care about the privileges as qawamah of the family and never about the massive responsibilities that comes with it. They enter marriages only thinking about what the wife has to do for them, and never what they have to do for her. They think she has to make him happy, but never that he too has to make her happy.
If many men took their role as qawamah seriously, we would not be seeing broke men trying to marry a 2nd time. Men using their wife's wealth to marry. Men treating their 2nd as a side chick. 1st wives being sectioned because of shock ect. All of this happens time and time again and it makes you think, where is their essense of being protectors and providers?
It reeks of self-entitlement. Women are expected to be pliable, compromise and even give up their rights to please them. Bearing that in mind, these complaints of the ‘injustice’ against them because some women choose to be in a monogamous marriage sound rather hollow.
Look at the above comment, turning something pure and wholesome into something salacious. No woman should have to compete for her husband’s love and affection.