Eww!
I was browsing Churchandstate.org, via a post on Eric’s blog, and what did I find but a fetid little abomination called “the stay-at-home-daughters movement.” As in “stay at home because you are inferior and subordinate and your Duty in life is to be a conduit for child production and a domestic servant.”
The stay-at-home-daughters movement, which is promoted by Vision Forum, encourages young girls and single women to forgo college and outside employment in favor of training as “keepers at home” until they marry. Young women pursuing their own ambitions and goals are viewed as selfish and antifamily; marriage is not a choice or one piece of a larger life plan, but the ultimate goal. Stay-at-home daughters spend their days learning “advanced homemaking” skills, such as cooking and sewing, and other skills that at one time were a necessity—knitting, crocheting, soap- and candle-making. A father is considered his daughter’s authority until he transfers control to her husband.
So women (and girls) are viewed as a kind of livestock – all women and girls. They’re all too weak and stupid to learn anything or do anything more than soap-making and child-rearing.
Vision Forum, for its part, is fully dedicated to turning back the clock on gender equality. Its website offers a cornucopia of sex-segregated books and products designed to conform children to rigid gender stereotypes starting from an early age. The All-American Boy’s Adventure Catalog shills an extensive selection of toy weapons (bow-and-arrow sets, guns, swords, and tomahawks), survival gear, and books and DVDs on war, the outdoors, and science. The Beautiful Girlhood Collection features dolls, cooking and sewing play sets, and costumes. There’s no room for doubt about the intended roles these girls will play later on in life.
Excellent. If the trend spreads, we have a pretty good chance of catching up to Pakistan in a decade or two.
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One trusts that this is the outer edge of the bell curve; you know, the place where the bell’s donger routinely hits.
If not, then Christ help us all.
Reading the article and then linking through to some of the blogs made me rage. Reading the quote under a picture of a pre-pubescent girl stating “a little princess who will never have to see the workplace” makes my blood boil.
I don’t even know how to respond intelligently to such blatant idiocy.
I’ve always believed that one should live gratefully. And among the things of which I am grateful is the certain knowledge that my daughter would find this nauseating.
Parental child abuse, of the first water.
I think I feel sick.
How utterly disgusting! Having narrowly escaped a similar fate, that article gave me a real frisson of revulsion. And what could be worse than young women actually supporting it?
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Its website offers a cornucopia of sex-segregated books and products designed to conform children to rigid gender stereotypes starting from an early age.
Surely this is from the onion? Nobody could say ‘rigid gender stereotypes’ who believed in such things. They’d say ‘good old fashion values, husband as provider and wife as carer’ or some such. Wouldn’t they?
an example and warning of the fate of those who try to divide people….randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/1176-serves-em-right.htmlAt least we’re on the same page…Serves Em Right, eh, Randi….skepticalcommunity.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=29968&p=567498#p567498
From The All-American Man’s Adventure Catalog:
Welcome to Christianity, as the Bible teaches it.
“Marital Tools.” Really???
<a href=”http://proflebras.ifrance.com/Docs/Term/USA%20H/docs/Schafly.bmp”>This</a> cartoon – which, bizarrely, I first saw in a religious studies textbook – is a nice early reply to the nu-traditionalists…
Maintaining the values of the Founding Fathers, or at least some of their more narrow-minded brethren.
“For the daughter who has embraced the beauty of Christian girlhood, the richest friendships begin within her family, where she learns to love and honor, and first learns the joy of belonging to another.”
I thought slavery was illegal these days. And to whom in the family does she belong? I think I can answer that!
Such cults as this are a peculiar parasitic form of culture that grows within liberal and free societies such as in America. It uses the tools of free societies and then subverts and attacks them. The free publication of books is a product of our modern free societies, which includes free women. Are women supposed to read this book? I wonder. I assume such patriarchal homes won’t have any modern technology like washing machines, TV, radio, computers, DVD players or printed bibles, or modern sewage and water facilities, otherwise that would be hypocritical wouldn’t it?
This kind of cult is only an attraction for mostly male child abusers, and such cults are really rackets designed to hide and allow such abuses to go on.
Egbert: don’t underestimate the power of Stockholm syndrome. We see over and over in such parts of society, be they christian or other fundamentalists, that women go along with this and in fact enforce it too to their own detriment.
You mean women *aren’t* just pets and sex toys? I swear Jesus and his daddy said otherwise.
Perhaps “Vision Forum” should change its name to “Hallucinatory Forum”. They believe too much in their grand pixie; worse still, they believe their pixie talks to them. The funny thing is, I’ll bet they’re christian but they want all women to behave like good little muslims. I wonder if their version of the bible has that bit about how god wants you to beat a woman into submission and if she doesn’t learn then beat her to death. I wonder how the apologists of islam explain that bit as ‘not to be interpreted literally’.
@Egbert#15: But I also see the same behavior in many oppressive regimes, so I doubt that it is a product of a free society. I don’t disagree that oppresive cults take advantage of free society; it was recognized by the founders of the USA that every single religion will make it a point to suppress all others if they could only control the government. I think this is a simple matter of ass-backward cultists who just don’t want to part with the ancient status quo – or at least not part with the bits which are convenient for them.
From what I’ve seen over my lifetime, including the increasing ascendancy of women in the professions and business, I think it might be a good idea if more of us guys stayed home and did the cooking and cleaning. Personally I’m not keen on the knitting and crocheting, though.
I’d write more, but I have some squash soup and roasted chicken to cook. Mmmm…comfort food!
My mother goes to a quilting group, rather than a knitting group. They call it the bitch and stitch.
I want the American Geisha edition Barbie, please. Since they don’t register to vote, can I have the full set of seven? Uncircumcised, thank you very much, I’m not a barbarian. Yet.
Yes, isn’t it wonderful?! In Canada they call themselves Real Women, and bill their movement as: Canada’s Alternative Women’s Movement. Read all about it here: http://www.realwomenca.com/ Enough to make you sick!
I cannot believe that there are still people who can believe tosh like this. This is just incredible but there is still a great deal of work to be done to get rid of the inbuilt misogyny in Western society. The fact that even today it is considered to be quite natural for a woman to be given away by her father at her wedding shows that we still haven’t completely grasped that women are NOT belongings of men but are individuals in their own right.
Eww…. Just eww… And about 1,000% in the opposite direction of how we raise our daughters.
Real Women – indeed What do they call women who are not part of their group, Unreal or what?
They deliberately believe this tosh because they know they have no other means of maintaining control of women, Religion and its warped philosophy that they employ are cunning mechanisms by which they can hide behind – in a so-called respectable manner – to experiment on ‘unreal’ women.
Oh you’re all just a bunch of secular libbrul sinners, what do you know.
Vyckie Garrison a former Quiverfull has a ‘NoLongerQuivering’ blog where, among other topics, she shares stories of her life in the movement, how she came to be disillusioned with it, and religion in general, and how she and her children are adjusting to a more secular lifestyle.
“He leads her, woos her, and wins her with a tenderness and affection unique to the bonds of father and daughter.”
Well… I guess I know where all that terrible father on daughter stuff on literotica comes from.
Yuck! How creepy, borderline-incestuous, and pro-slavery. This would be called slavery if it were advocated for any other group than women.
My only consolation is that it’s probably an exaggeration to call this a ‘movement’ rather than a handful of extremely sick people.
One of my wife’s married nieces is getting close to this level of weirdness, buying into all these books on Biblical parenting and homelife
Funny that it even weirds out her Baptist family!
In this case I doubt it’s her husband that is really driving this. He is somewhat but not aggressively religious, certainly not a dominating person. It seems that he is basically going along. hmmm can one be aggressively submissive?
Hope these folks never see the standardized test scores from public schools, which routinely show girls trouncing their male classmates in science in particular… One benefit of “No Child Left Behind” and its attendant battery of tests is that we have enough hard empirical data put to rest the odious (and totally false) myth that “girls aren’t good at math and science.”
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