Sister Wives star Kody Brown is often criticized for his unsatisfactory marriage skills, and here's why fans have started scrutinizing Kody's ability to lead his family. Kody is unpopular among the Sister Wives fanbase for a variety of reasons including neglecting his four wives and not being present in his grandchildren's lives. Unsurprisingly, Sister Wives viewers on are Kody's case again, and here's why fans think that the reality star has poor leadership skills.
Through living a polygamist lifestyle, Kody Brown has taken on the hefty task of leading a massive household composed of several family trees. From 1990 to 2016, Kody has married four wives and had 18 children. The large clan Kody - which has formed over multiple decades - requires a dependable director. While appearing on Sister Wives for over a decade, Kody's family has endured a great deal of turbulence that fans think could have been avoided if Kody was a more capable leader for his family to follow. Some of the most trying challenges that faced the Brown family include his wives feeling unloved and tax problems. Thus, the fans have speculated that if Kody was a natural leader, his family would have been able to navigate Sister Wive's slew of scandals.
Even though Kody Brown and his four wives (Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn) are part of an unconventional marriage, they are extraordinarily traditional. One of the customs Kody and his wives stick to is that the family's patriarch should be the head of the household. Fans on Reddit (thread included below) don't think that Kody should lead the Brown gaggle just because he's a man. In fact, many Sister Wives viewers believe that Kody's wives would make better chiefs of the family. One fan wrote that Kody's sister wives have "far more natural leadership skills" than the patriarch does. Nevertheless, Meri, Janelle, Christine, and Robyn submit to Kody because of his sex rather than his qualifications as a decision-maker. The Sister Wives viewer continued that Kody is "too Kody" and instead of reaching solutions, the wives are forced to endure the low points in their marriage.
These fans claim that Kody's poor initiative skills result in arguments "going round in circles" and leading to new problems for the reality stars to face. Other viewers commented that the structure of plural marriage is flawed because it requires the man to be "strong [and] authoritative." Additionally, this fan asserted that "women are oppressed and reliant on the man" in polygamist family dynamics like Kody's. On top of these outdated expectations, Kody has been deemed incapable of being the commanding force his family structure needs. Instead of acting as a stable and rational leader for his wives, children, and grandchildren, fans on Reddit accuse Kody of "gaslighting, blaming, and bullying." As a patriarch who struggles to keep his family happy, it is not surprising that the wives have branched out from Kody.
Throughout all of the complicated drama and dynamics of Sister Wives, one constant is viewers' criticism of Kody. Fans do not think that Kody possesses the necessary commanding qualities to effectively lead his exorbitant family. Hopefully, Kody will learn from his mistakes seen in past seasons of Sister Wives and step up as the reliable patriarch the Browns need.