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Jan
16

Zombie Apocalypse Housewives

Gotcha. We were watching the series of the zombie show, “Walking Dead” recently, and in one of the episodes the ideal woman character is having a confrontation with the feminist warrior woman about the importance of each other’s tasks. Our family watched the previous seasons on Netflix, and this scene occurs in season 2 Which matter most, the household tasks and the making of a home, or...
Apr
16

Finding Old Barbies in the Closet – why it is a mistake to aspire to Superwoman

Finding Old Barbies in the Closet – why it is a mistake to aspire to Superwoman Three things comprise the inspiration for this post: Super women- I mean Barbies Barbie Gets Ordained An online podcast conversation reference to “Women Who Want To “Have It All” First Up: What Does Barbie Mean To YOU? In the first essay, Alicia Cohn asked this question up front: Why do women want to be represented by a plastic doll? Since we are covering at least two generations here, I...
Aug
16

The Mommy Wars

The Mommy Wars Reposting this from Nov. 3, 2004 in the interest of defining some things about SAHM’s and some of the cultural myths that are *still* with us. Prologue: While keeping track of the election results and discovering new blogs I came across a set of things that caught my interest and have the common thread of comments on parenting, and being a mommy in particular. The first was a book,Home Alone...
Oct
21

On My Bookshelf

Awhile ago I had started a post on this article: Arianna Huffington, the accidental feminist. By Meghan O’Rourke – Slate Magazine Her motivation, she explained, was to start a “fearlessness epidemic” that would transform the lives of women. Tellingly, what moved Huffington to action wasn’t merely perceived inequality but also the immediate lack of female readership at her own...
Aug
30

Are Stay-At-Home Moms Economically Productive?

The question seemed to be raised whether a woman who oversees a home is as economically productive, or even if she is -at all, as the woman with a career. This discussion arose in the comments at previously cited, the evangelical outpost’s “Don’t Marry a Proverbs 31 Woman”. Although this was not the main point of the post, which I happen to agree with: that we should have a Biblical...
Jul
7

A step behind the beat…or a different drummer?

Some of this discussion on gender, at times, seems so yesterday. I bet lots of feminists thought that when they got stung into surprised wakefulness by the resurgence of traditional women’s choices. And not all made by traditional women! Modern, educated, career savvy women choosing to return home, be SAHM, and turning their displeasure upon the the myths of modern feminism. I bet that was just...
Jun
21

Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms

Apparently the Mommy Wars are still smoldering and ready to rage. I wrote a bit on this in The Mommy Wars. Unleashing the Wrath of Stay-at-Home Moms By Linda R. Hirshman Sunday, June 18, 2006: When I set out to write a book about how the first generation of women to grow up with feminism managed their marriages, I never dreamed I’d wind up the subject of a Web article called “Everybody Hates...
Aug
11

Bringing It Home 3

Balancing the Scale What the Bible portrays is often in opposition to our prevailing culture. Yet, because the culture, the worldly system, has so infiltrated our churches, a battle ensues any time there is a concerted move ( whether individual or group) to align with the Bible’s pattern. A common tension is the one, often garbled, on money. The love of money being the root of all evil and the...
Aug
11

Bringing It Home 2

The myth of control by James Bowman: I think it is because the most cherished of all the myths of the Left is the myth of control. For those whose political starting point is the need to change the world, obviously the first article of faith must be that the world can be changed by the leaders they elect and the decisions those leaders take and the laws they pass. Although spoken within a different...
Aug
10

Bringing It Home 1

Quiver Full is one form of the birth control debate, it has other components, but at its core the issue is birth control. Its context is reactionary to the prevailing culture. Reactionary is not always bad, but I think we will see how much it handicaps people as we go further into the controversies. The cultural points that are protested are the ideas of over population as the family planning...
Aug
9

Bringing It Home

Oh boy. I am about to spread out the discussion on what might, at first seem like an internecine Christian discussion on family size. It has components of many of the cultural clashes that concern women. Mommy Wars will probably ignite from the ashes, because there are factors of feminist ideology. It is proving to be a topic with tentacles. What, you say? Quiver Full, a fairly inconsequential and...

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