Are you an eight-cow woman?
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 3:17 pm
Let's have another barfing party, shall we? Who else is utterly pissed off by that stupid movie?
The thing that people don't get in the Church is the respectful treatment of women. I once deconstructed an Aaronic Priesthood lesson on respecting women on the LDS.about.com forum (and I'm telling you, that place is worse than MAD; I know it's hard to imagine, but the mods there actually read every single post before it is allowed to appear on the forum), which got me banned for "trolling", along with a statement that there is no way in Hades I could be an LDS woman. I have also noticed that a lot of people assume I'm a guy despite the huge whopping uterus in my avatar - what's up with that? I thought guys were afraid of female reproductive organs.
But I digress. The lesson talked about how guys need to help those helpless females who are utterly incapable of taking care of themselves. Any reasons for treating women with respect? They have kids. Only one example of a woman who actually accomplished something without her uterus being involved (Deborah). Anyway, here it is: article
I don't want this condescending respect and lip service, thank you very much! "All you're realy good for is being a semen receptacle; you can't do much else and need us to solve all your problems for you, but we still respect you". Barf.
Whenever a GA wants to compliment women, it usually comes out as "women are awesome cuz they make donuts while we're at the Priesthood Conference talking about important stuff", "I dunno what we'd do without you cuz you're the family chauffeur" or "Men, be nice to women! they're your most precious possessions". I say barf, barf and barf!
When is the assumption that a woman needs validation by a man to not feel like a worthless piece of crap going to be eradicated? So far it's a self-reinforcing cycle, and it pisses me off beyond description. President Hinckley shares Johnny Lingo's assumption, which is reflected in his use of this quote: “Man can not degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he can not elevate her without at the same time elevating himself” article
The fact that the Johnny Lingo movie is so popular in the Mormon culture is reflective of this lobotomized mentality. It's everywhere: on T-shirts, in lessons and even in the New Era. Here's a priceless quote from the article titled "The Eight-Cow Ring" (diamonds are a modern equivalent of cows, in case you didn't know) I'll never forget: "When I was single, it seemed like engaged girls with sparkly diamond rings loved to show them off so everyone would know how much their husband paid for them." article
It took me a while to realize that the word them was referring to the rings and not to the engaged girls. Or maybe my first interpretation is correct? The author of the article ends up flushing her ring down the toilet and has to wear a cheap plain band. And do you think the moral of the story is "don't let your self-esteem be dependent on how your husband treats you"? Au contraire, my friends. The moral of the story is "even though now other people don't know my husband esteemed me highly enough to part with eight cows to be able to bone me, I still know he did, and that's what matters".
I wish Johnny Lingo were real so I could take a dump on his grave.
The thing that people don't get in the Church is the respectful treatment of women. I once deconstructed an Aaronic Priesthood lesson on respecting women on the LDS.about.com forum (and I'm telling you, that place is worse than MAD; I know it's hard to imagine, but the mods there actually read every single post before it is allowed to appear on the forum), which got me banned for "trolling", along with a statement that there is no way in Hades I could be an LDS woman. I have also noticed that a lot of people assume I'm a guy despite the huge whopping uterus in my avatar - what's up with that? I thought guys were afraid of female reproductive organs.
But I digress. The lesson talked about how guys need to help those helpless females who are utterly incapable of taking care of themselves. Any reasons for treating women with respect? They have kids. Only one example of a woman who actually accomplished something without her uterus being involved (Deborah). Anyway, here it is: article
I don't want this condescending respect and lip service, thank you very much! "All you're realy good for is being a semen receptacle; you can't do much else and need us to solve all your problems for you, but we still respect you". Barf.
Whenever a GA wants to compliment women, it usually comes out as "women are awesome cuz they make donuts while we're at the Priesthood Conference talking about important stuff", "I dunno what we'd do without you cuz you're the family chauffeur" or "Men, be nice to women! they're your most precious possessions". I say barf, barf and barf!
When is the assumption that a woman needs validation by a man to not feel like a worthless piece of crap going to be eradicated? So far it's a self-reinforcing cycle, and it pisses me off beyond description. President Hinckley shares Johnny Lingo's assumption, which is reflected in his use of this quote: “Man can not degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he can not elevate her without at the same time elevating himself” article
The fact that the Johnny Lingo movie is so popular in the Mormon culture is reflective of this lobotomized mentality. It's everywhere: on T-shirts, in lessons and even in the New Era. Here's a priceless quote from the article titled "The Eight-Cow Ring" (diamonds are a modern equivalent of cows, in case you didn't know) I'll never forget: "When I was single, it seemed like engaged girls with sparkly diamond rings loved to show them off so everyone would know how much their husband paid for them." article
It took me a while to realize that the word them was referring to the rings and not to the engaged girls. Or maybe my first interpretation is correct? The author of the article ends up flushing her ring down the toilet and has to wear a cheap plain band. And do you think the moral of the story is "don't let your self-esteem be dependent on how your husband treats you"? Au contraire, my friends. The moral of the story is "even though now other people don't know my husband esteemed me highly enough to part with eight cows to be able to bone me, I still know he did, and that's what matters".
I wish Johnny Lingo were real so I could take a dump on his grave.
