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Post by sargassosea on Mar 13, 2010 14:14:07 GMT -5
PMM Prairie Muffins dress modestly and in a feminine manner.
PDC Pole Dancers dress immodestly and in a feminine manner.
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Note that there is only 2 letters difference between these extreme opposites and that these extreme opposites have one thing in common: the word feminine.
In my Webster’s (and the online version) *feminine* is defined:
1. FEMALE 1a(1) 2. characteristic of or appropriate or unique to women 3, 4, whatever. a bunch of other stuff about “unstressed” and “weak beats” - 'inferior' usages.
So:
*Feminine* is a cultural/lingual delineation based on biological sex (a *sex distinction*) that both our Prairie Muffin and our Pole Dancer share in that they have female sex parts and – presumably – produce eggs (as per the definition of FEMALE!).
And:
Prairie Muffins can not be immodest in their display of femininity and Pole Dancers are required to be. Pole Dancers’ are public displays of nudity while Prairie Muffins’ are private.
What totally blows my mind is that these are considered to be the extremities of the Female Condition!
We have only 2 choices? Sell ourselves to one guy or more than one guy at a time?
And they legislate it a Choice or call it Free Association...…
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Post by susan on Mar 13, 2010 18:04:07 GMT -5
www.jesus-is-lord.com/jezebel.htmThis "femininity"-thing reminds me so much of a sickening article (link above) by Debi Pearl ("The Jezebel Profile") that I came across a while back. Pearl takes the constrictions of femininity several steps further than most conservative religious leaders do: women are supposed to focus on being practical helpmeets to their husbands, and they're moving out of their wifely spheres if they get too "spiritual" and too focused on Bible study. When I found the article, I also stumbled across a blog by a young woman named Holly (A Mommy's Blessings) who had linked to this article. Holly shared how, earlier in her marriage, her husband used to give her Scripture reading assignments, so that when he was home in the evenings they could discuss it. Holly said her husband was trying to bring her up to his spiritual level -- but then one of his friends educated him on how this really wasn't her place. And it was such a relief to her not to have these assignments any more. On the one hand, I could understand her relief because I'd frankly hate to have anyone else telling me what to read like that. On the other hand, it made me sad to see how, in this extreme patriarchal theology, women seem to be mere children ... It's like (as some others here have said) the husband has a relationship with God -- and the wife has a relationship with her husband -- and the husband is to the wife what God is to the husband. What was it Journey said about her brain -- something about switcing it off? In the extreme version of patriarchy, it's like you can't be a truly feminine woman and have an active brain, too. You have to bind it up just like Chinese girls used to have their feet bound. And the feet died and they stank because they were decomposing -- but in traditional Chinese culture, this smelly death was seen as oh-so-dainty and pretty. I left a comment on Holly's blog -- but it never made it past moderation. I just checked there today, and there's still just the one "sweet comment" by a woman who agreed with her.
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Post by usotsuki on Mar 13, 2010 19:16:03 GMT -5
Is the word "helpmeet" ever even used seriously outside the KJV fundamentalists? (Which, of course, I see QF ties well into, you know, traditions and all that.) Every time I hear that word I get a jarring feeling that somehow things are connected to fundies.
(In this case, naturally, it's true - that's a site with which I'm not unfamiliar, and ISTR it being staunchly KJV-Onlyist.)
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Post by krwordgazer on Mar 13, 2010 23:50:47 GMT -5
That Debbie Pearl article absolutely makes me sick.
If this is what marriage is really about, then marriage should be avoided like the plague. How she could think it's a Christian thing for a man to do, to willingly become an idol to his wife-- or a Christian thing for a woman to idolize her husband-- is completely beyond me. *goes off to barf*
Sargassosea, you're absolutely right. Whether one is a Prairie Muffin or a Pole Dancer, it's all about the man, the man, the man. It's slavery, pure and simple.
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