Daddy god told me it was all mine
Ahhhhhh that spells it out clearly enough for anyone. Never mind about Trump’s boast about sexually assaulting women, the important principle is that women must not be the boss of men, ever ever ever ever ever pardon me just a moment while I grab my testicles and cry.
When was the last time you heard your pastor give a sermon on the fact that women shouldn’t be in leadership?
Aw, coach, he goes on sarcastically, those are old times. Nuh uh, he says –
I think it’s pretty clear that the Bible teaches us that women should not be in authority over a mayun.”
Why? Well, he explains that.
When women rule over a mayun – when children rule over a mayun – [fraught pause] – it’s a sign of judgment of the lord.
Clearly it’s because women are so stupid and inferior and not good enough.
His scorn is impressive.
At least he just comes out and says it. It’s the ones who think like that but then deny it and imply that they are being victimised by critics that are hard to deal with.
Then there’s the next-level-down version: women can fill certain roles, but only by forfeiting their claim to being women. See this bizarre article in Slate.
This is the way I was raised.
Even knowing better, it still affects me, and I still have to fight against the strongly embedded instinct (I protested at the time, too, but no one listened)
If I weren’t planning to vote for Clinton before, this would have convinced me.
If a woman being placed in charge over a manly-mayun is a sign of judgement from the Lord, does that mean that when Hillary wins, this shithead and all his fellow-travelers will be forced to admit that even their God despises them?
Yup. Whole bunch’a boots’n’slippers vacated as their former masters float skywards, amen, I mean men.
@Screechy Monkey, I think that was an ironic commentary on the different expectations for mothers and fathers.
At least I hope so. Of course, these days, the trend is not to challenge the expectations one was born to but to adopt the other set and switch labels accordingly.
Maybe she was poking fun at that tendency as well?
Lady M @6,
It’s possible that I missed some irony there. But I did consider that possibility before I posted, and if so, it was way too subtle for me.
On the possibility of being ironic, I did consider that as well. It’s hard to tell. At least one of the comments (I didn’t read them, just saw the one) was taking it seriously.
These days, how can you tell?
Reading it, I feel like she’s writing about being the dad and her husband being the mom the same way I might say I’m the guy and my husband’s the woman before this whole transgender stuff took over conversations and made it no longer a joke about how stupid gender roles are.
She’s fighting back against how society makes women feel guilty for not being perfect moms and has taught herself to feel good about how she parents by thinking that if she was a man, her playful spirit would be seen as great for the kid. And then celebrating how her husband has the nurturing, cautious approach that is expected of mothers and serves to balance her undisciplined style.
I wish I could ask the “Coach” for his disquisition on Golda Meir.