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Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on Jan 21, 2010 11:17:45 GMT -5
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Post by runawaybride on Jan 21, 2010 11:25:33 GMT -5
two sides of the same coin: Virgin and Whore.
Why is sex always comidisized?
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Post by brakeman on Jan 21, 2010 13:26:15 GMT -5
I don't see it as Virgin / Whore, but rather Whore/Whore or more accurately Victim / Victim.
As an Atheist I know that the religious customs are really impositions by dominant men. Like the pole dancer, to survive the women must play the man's game.
So Sad.
I wish I could apologize for all men.
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Post by coleslaw on Jan 21, 2010 13:35:56 GMT -5
If sargassosea managed to sit read through that entire manifesto, she is indeed fabulous. I couldn't make it past the fifth line.
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Post by frederica on Jan 21, 2010 13:45:12 GMT -5
What I find fascinating is that the author of this "Prairie Muffin Manifesto" has gone silent lately, after blogging for years about her Quiverfull/homeschooling lifestyle.
I'm wondering if that's because she's discovered that there are no guarantees in child-rearing, as she apparently had originally thought, based upon so many posts she did before some of her children began hitting adulthood.
Although she would frequently trumpet how she has ten kids, it was interesting to note that after a certain point, she made absolutely no mention of her oldest son. It was like he'd been disowned. Come to find out, when he was around 19, he married a girl who was obviously NOT a Prairie Muffin herself. It looks as though they've since divorced. Judging from his own blog and other things he's published online in recent times, this son has adopted political views that are the polar opposite of those of the Manifesto's author.
I think it'd be interesting for someone to pursue what Quiverfull offspring end up doing in adulthood. So much of the Prairie Muffin Manifesto's author's blog (at least in the earlier years) was filled with smug assurances of how to raise "godly seed," along with put-downs for those who didn't share her views. Yet it looks like her children aren't exactly following in her footsteps to pursue the "only truly godly lifestyle." Even her daughter, who was so pompously kept away from college, living at home, hasn't yet gotten betrothed to anyone to begin the next generation.
One can't help but wonder what the Prairie Muffin thinks about all this, and - even more intriguingly - why she has not blogged more honestly about the failures of the teachings that she used to work so hard to promote.
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Post by susan on Jan 21, 2010 14:01:23 GMT -5
I found it interesting that Prairie Muffins find objectionable elements in Little Women and the Little House series.
It reminds me that Little Women was seen as revolutionary in its time -- I guess because of Jo's assertiveness and ambition.
And the Little House books -- I guess Prairie Muffins don't like the way that Laura felt sad when she reached the age where she was expected to sit and watch the boys playing in the schoolyard, when she really still wanted to get up and play, too.
I guess there are lots of simlarities between Prairie Muffins and Pole Dancers -- namely because the whole focus is on pleasing men. I know the PM's would say their real focus is pleasing God -- but according to Vision Forum, God is masculine. So it all still seems pretty phallo-centric to me.
Whether you say "God is a Man" or "Man is God" -- same difference, really.
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Post by Vyckie D. Garrison on Jan 21, 2010 16:06:16 GMT -5
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Post by sargassosea on Jan 21, 2010 21:37:53 GMT -5
Runawaybride - Thank you for noticing Brakeman - And that would make it all better? Coleslaw - Heavens! Even I can only take them one at a time, Lady! Frederica - I am truly sorry to hear that Susan - Oh, yes. Yes indeed.
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Post by krwordgazer on Jan 21, 2010 23:50:12 GMT -5
A very auspicious beginning, Sargassosea. ;D
Love it.
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Post by cindy on Jan 25, 2010 10:28:47 GMT -5
two sides of the same coin: Virgin and Whore. Why is sex always comidisized? Another interesting perspective that a friend sent to me months ago: (Someone may have discussed this here months ago, for all I know. Thanks to a sinus infection, I've been able to be active here this past week!) today.msnbc.msn.com/id/30353377/It’s time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they’re sexually active...Unable to live up to the ideal of purity that’s forced upon them in one aspect of their lives, many young women are choosing the hypersexualized alternative that’s offered to them everywhere else as the easier — and more attractive — option...So what are young women left with? Abstinence-only education during the day and Girls Gone Wild commercials at night! Whether it’s delivered through a virginity pledge or by a barely dressed tween pop singer writhing across the television screen, the message is the same: A woman’s worth lies in her ability — or her refusal — to be sexual.
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