More Christian Taliban

patgund clued me in to a movement called "Prairie Muffins". I'll leave you to Google them because there's some pretty amusing feminist parodies and MST3Ks of them. These are women with the "Marylike Modesty" thing going, but they're Evangelicals.

A look at the website hosting their manifesto pretty much summarizes their life as being a quiet stay-at-home mama who accepts as many babies as God will "give" them, who don't believe in women having the vote, and who decry such firebrands as Louisa May Alcott and Laura Ingalls Wilder as being bad examples of womanhood for young girls. Jo after all wanted education and Laura Ingalls and her Ma had to work like absolute dogs on their homestead because Pa was away half the year making money and Mary was blind.

For a Catholic view, check out this chick's creepy blog: http://colleenhammond.blogspot.com/. To cut STRAIGHT to the chase, look at the entry on "The Western Media is At It Again."

Ready? No, you don't need the smelling salts because you're not hallucinating. She just PRAISED the way women live in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Made me die more than a little inside, too.

Make sure to go to her homepage (just remove "blogspot" and check out her essays on why women should not play sports (short answer--it's not attractive, whatever THAT means), and of course the ever-popular modesty thing.

However, one essay of hers gave me the in, the missing puzzle piece, the password, to what's going on with these movements. In it, Mrs Hammond admits throwing her hands up in frustration and telling her husband to do the household finances from now on.

Let me paint the picture. Mr. Hammond works, supporting a wife and a larger-than-normal family. Mrs Hammond breeds of course, but she also writes books, goes on speaking engagements, and otherwise puts the lie to the lifestyle she claims to espouse. Now she is able to foist another responsibility onto her husband while she does whatever she wants to do, namely, her best to impose her lifestyle on other women.

Similarly, the Prairie Muffins seem to do little but reproduce and clean house. No thought or responsibility involved. Heck, they want to get rid of as much responsiblity as possible, claiming it's against what it is to be female.

As I said to Steve, what a scam! These husbands should steer these freeloading heifers to the curb.

I really like how these self-created cows condemn women who won't buy into their line of bullshit with words of pity. "Oh you poor thing, you've given up your femininity and True Womanhood in search of the American Nightmare." Well, I guess so. Go ahead and pity me for my willingness to be an adult, to pull my own weight in the life partnership, to look a little rough around the edges while I defend YOUR freedom to stay childish and worthless.

Cause when your husbands do wake up and you find yourself abandoned in a house you can't pay for with ten kids you suddenly need to feed, you are going to wish you had my life.