Sorry...my posts weren't showing up; feel free to delete the extras. On Jan 13, 8:47 am, "J.C." <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, 8:11 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 the calls for gender hierarchy often seem amusingly outdated (not to 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
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