Because I never get tired of it....

[lady_kishiria]

http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/?p=324

The blogger asks the question on everybody's mind, "Why do these crazy women want to take over the country just because they want to be [BDSM] bottoms?"

And I still think their men should run screaming. How many jobs do they need to take on to pay for as many babies as will drop out of their wives' worn-out panochas? And you know those panochas are the only ones they're gonna get because they're too strapped to hire prostitutes.

Plus, as I said to electorprince, since exercise is unfeminine, and hard to do in layers and layers of fabric, what kind of beauty must one of these women have after kid #4? If you recall my whole "lotus birth" kick a while back, there was a photo essay about it. The Prairie Muffin in that was a Mormon living the lifestyle. Take a look at her. That's what these guys have to look forward to.

About 7 years ago, there was a woman who started a small movement called the Surrendered Wife movement. It wasn't religious per se, but it was based on the idea of the wife being submissive to her husband in the name of peace in the home. There were two fundamental flaws with it.

1. It assumed there was no middle ground between being a doormat and being a shrew.

2. It was heavily based on deceit. The classic example of good surrendered behaviour was letting your husband take the wrong exit off the freeway even though you know it's wrong because you must not make him feel stupid by telling him so. Apparently it's better to keep silent and let him get lost and frustrated.

All of this is based on refusing to see middle ground. I make cracks about being dressed like a whore because according to the PM lifestyle I am, when I'm wearing knee-length shorts and a t-shirt because it's 90 degrees outside. In their demented minds, there is no middle ground between being a college girl walking around in her underwear (no kidding, I actually read that) and wearing one of their big denim Taliban-approved jumper dresses.

So, who do I think is a good Christian wife?

http://www.abcgallery.com/C/cranach/cranach44.html

This lovely lady is Katarina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther. Isn't she formidable? She'd have taken a whip to these PMs. Sure, she adored Martin and had a lot of kids, but at the same time, she was his business manager (she handled publication of all his books), ran a brewery, took care of the finances (she would hide money from him because otherwise he'd give it to the poor at times when they WERE the poor) and still found time to theologize with him when he was stuck on a problem.

Their courtship was funny too. She was a former nun, a noblewoman obviously, who was set to marry Martin's friend Phillip Melancthon. Still, she'd set her sights on Luther himself, and once she did that, get the hell out of the way. He didn't stand a chance.

Oy vey...I need a job, and not just for money. I am bored and my brain is on overdrive. I'm stopping now before I go into my rant against Womens' Studies programs and an essay on "Man As Head of Household As Dangerous Path to the Gnostic Heresy."

You may all de-friendlist me now. :P

Comments

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

That's my conclusion. Raising an enormous passel of children while constantly pregnant is a lot harder than watching TV all day, but they seem to prefer that to having any sort of adult, real-world responsibility. Why else would they object to the Little House books, except that it reveals the truth that in the "perfect world" they envision, women were in fact running households and doing "men's work" because if they didn't, everyone in the family would DIE come winter? It's a demented sort of laziness, but it's laziness.

[shadowcell.livejournal.com]

Heeeeeey, wait a second...enormous passel of children...hmm...

Okay, so Mrs Prairie Baked Good gets the joy of raising X amount of children that God foists upo--I mean blesses her with. Okay. But Mr Prairie Canine has to provide for them. And of course, Mrs Prairie Muffin Smith will want to be just as if not more blessed by God than Mrs Prairie Muffin Jones next door, so Mr Prairie Dawg Smith is going to have to do some serious babymakin' to keep up. But don't get too comfy, Mr Smith, because guess what you have to do for the next thirty or forty years? That's right, you've got to work to provide Mrs Smith and her fifteen children all with the comfortable suburban lifestyle they demand. So what does this amount to? Mr Smith is the kinda guy who has a futon in his office, which he makes not infrequent use of.

So Mrs Prairie Muffin here gets all of the income and children and none of the husband.

It's all so clear now.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

And another one understands.

[electorprince.livejournal.com]

Smacks a little of samurai culture taken to a hideous extreme, doesn't it?

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I know about as much about samurai culture as you do about the Aztecs, so....