Will's wife here for a guest post. So much to say, but just a few minutes to say it in.
As for this calling women bitches thing, all I can say is let
whoever is without sin among you cast the first stone. I don't think I know a grown man who hasn't at least once referred to a woman as a bitch. And probably rightly so. For heaven's sake,
I have done that on occasion. I'm sorry, but sometimes people deserve being called that. It's just a simple reality of life. Doesn't mean they're that way all time. Like Will, for example. Speaking of people who are sometimes insufferable bitches. A more high maintenance husband you will never find. Some days I'd like to see what I could get to sell his cranky ass down the dirty river here in the Great and Spacious Trailer Park (kind of a funny name-lol). Oh, I could tell you stories that would rock your world. Doctor Scratch could make one of his drawrings (spoken like Mike Myers on SNL) illustrating me in negotiations with
Charon to sell Will's high-maintenance soul down the river for all the things I've had to put up with over the years. Being all understanding and tolerant while he was doing what he damn well pleased when he damn well pleased to do it. (Is that chiasmus?) All the things he promised to do but never did. (And believe me, now that I'm in my 50s, that's a bigger issue than it used to be!)
But you guys think that bitch stuff is bad?!!! I'll show you bad. Like the time he uncorked a sailor's montage of special words in front of me and the kids at Dead Horse Point State Park and then threatened to toss 4 scared-to-death BYU kids off the edge for
littering. Yeah, that one was touch and go for a while. But finally cooler heads prevailed (mine) and I dragged the hot head home and finally calmed him down. He swears to this day that he really would have only swung one of them over the edge a couple times, just to scare them all into never doing it again. But you can never be certain when it comes to my husband. If he'd found out one of them had read Vogel's Joseph Smith biography, it might have been curtains.
Sorry I can't stay to chat some more, but I have a pretty full life right now and I'm afraid there's not a single minute available for message board posting.