If you really want bad, just watch children's television. I have been watching some of the shows with my youngest; these are not like SpongeBob or Chowder; these are supposedly educational programs.
A lot of these shows completely reinforce stereotypical gender roles; yesterday, poor Fritzie had to listen to me go on for about a 1/2 hour about one show - Daddy was out working and bringing home the honey while Mommy was in her straight out of 1886 dress baking a pie. It really drives me nuts. But then again, so do shows like Rock of Love with Brett Michaels which show women to be nothing but mindless skanks. All I know is I want my girls to realize that they do have options and choices, that they don't have to be weak, and that it is ok for them to be strong and able to defend themselves. Like Mike, I've taught my girls to box, and in the summers, they work outside with me moving pipe. Don't get me wrong; they are both very girly, and the youngest will go out to move waterlines wearing a dress with her irrigation boots. But at least they know they can take care of themselves. On Jan 13, 8:22 am, "J.C." <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a compound about a mile from my house. Every time a child from > the family marries, they are given a plot of land to build a house > on. Every child has to be willing to subdivide his plot for another > child, and now this family has bought a second tract of land to > continue the practice. It is not uncommon for the children to marry > their cousins, and I swear, every one of them looks alike. Where I > live in Idaho, the population is a conservative estimate of 62% LDS, > with more than a few Catholics, Pentocostals, and Mennonites thrown in > for good measure. Large families with more than 5 children are not > uncommon, and the area is extremely patriarchal. > > On Jan 13, 8:11 am, wncs <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Moving onto a compound is next for these people, geez! > > JC... excellent post! > > > On Jan 13, 8:04 am, "florida mike !" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Women's Liberation Through Submission: An Evangelical Anti-Feminism > > > Is > > > Bornhttp://www.truthout.org/011209WA > > > This October, more than 6,000 women gathered in Chicago for the True > > > Woman Conference '08: a stadium-style event to promote what its > > > proponents call biblical womanhood, complementarianism, or - most > > > bluntly - the patriarchy movement. > > > > Women gathering to support the patriarchy movement? It's > > > evangelical counterculture at its most contrarian. > > > > The Associated Baptist Press explains the relationship of > > > biblical > > > womanhood to feminism, highlighting an ambitious initiative that > > > arose > > > from the meeting: a signature-drive seeking 100,000 women to endorse > > > its "True Woman Manifesto," which, the ABP writes, aims "at sparking > > > a > > > counter-revolution to the feminist movement of the 1960s." > > > > To outside observers of the patriarchy movement, the starkness of > > > the calls for gender hierarchy often seem amusingly outdated (not to > > > mention historically misleading: feminist blogs Feministing and > > > Pandagon have deftly dismantled some of the speakers' "Leave it to > > > Beaver" idealizations of the 1950s as a time when women were > > > universally protected). > > > > For the rest of Kathryn Joyce's exploration of evangelical anti- > > > feminism, please click here.- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
