Jason Bourne wrote:guy sajer wrote:Jason Bourne wrote:guy sajer wrote:Mister Scratch wrote:Blixa wrote:Sherri Dew?
Sherri Dew is such an unrepentant boot-lick and tool of the Brethren that I hardly think she counts.
Women as a whole are unrepentent book-licks and tools for the Brethren. The manner in which they so willingly consent to their marginalization is sickening to me. When are they going to stand up and challenge the Patriarchy? We're talking in many cases of highly educated women who sit by passsively and do nothing while a bunch of Octogenarians define, and limit, their role in life and marginalize them within the community to which they devote their lives. Yet, they do nothing. Pathetic!
Some may try to stand up and as Harmony noted, got in trouble for it. Some also may be quite happy in the role they assume as LDS women. I have asked my wife many times is she would like the priesthood and to lead, be a bishop and so on, and she has not interest. She is quite happy not having it. I have asked other LDS women and many feel the same way. Others have not. Why are they boot licks if they are fine and happy. Why should they shake things up because you think they should?
Many were quite happy under Stalin. What does this prove? Whether one is happy being oppressed doesn't mean that the oppression isn't happening or lessen it. That your wife wouldn't want the priesthood doesn't make it any less discriminatory to deny it to women. I suspect, also, that she's been conditioned to a degree to adopt this attitude. I wonder how she'd feel about a job environment that denied advancement opportunity to women because they're women? She may not want the promotion, but I bet she'd recognize the inherent inequity in the arrangement.
They're boot licks (I know a harsh phrase) because they take what's given them, or what's denied them, with nary a pause. They are complicit in their own marginalization. They are enablers of the partriarchy. They don't have to shake things up because I want them to--I'm merely commenting on what I observe. It they are happy being marginalized, that's fine; but they should not expect all of us to respect them for it. I'm not even talking about taking action, but it would be a start if they even acknowledged their situation. I understand that their are costs to action, what I understand less well is the unthinking acquiesence. I can't even get my wife to admit that the Mormon Church is sexist. I mean, geez, how obvious does it have to be?
This evening please tell your wife she is a boot lick.
Seriously, Jason, it's not uncommon to user hyperbolic language in an ananoymous on-line discussion board that we wouldn't use in polite society. I won't call my wife a book lick to her face, though I've told her that I think her support of the Brethren in gender issues is insupportable and hypocritical and demonstrates an uncritical and unhealthy acquiesence to authority.
By the way, did you ask your wife if she'd be ok working in a firm that denied oportunity for promotion to women? When she says no, ask her why it's different with Mormon Inc. I suspect what she'll say, but see if she has anything akin to an a ha moment.