I hope I didn't sound too meow-meow catty with my comment but I get so frustrated. While Femi-Nuns are fighting for a woman's right to be men, I am desperately holding on to my right to be a woman. Inside the modernist Church, androgyny reigns supreme like some sort of virtue. In the secular world you have dumb-butt (can I say that?) article like this around. "Feminity" has been mistaken and replaced with (please excuse my language, but I do not know a better word) sluttiness.
The Church (the real one) is one of the last strongholds that appreciates the beauty of women. It is our sanctuary and I get annoyed when people try to wash that away.
Pansy likes her gender-so there!
I love being a woman and for as long as I can remember, I have been thankful to God for making me what I am. Not because I feel that being a woman is better then being a man, but the way God made me suits me just fine.
First, I feel so blessed to be able to so intimately be a part of God's creation in motherhood. I love to shop , I like to cook, I like to talk on the phone. I love nurturing my children and taking care of my husband. As a child I liked frilly dresses and tea parties. Now I realise that these traits do not necessarily make a woman a woman, but these are some of the things I have heard "real modern empowered women" scoff at.
I also like men-real men. Non-androgynous, going to the gym, non word mincing, sports playing, works-hard-for their-families men. Again, I realise I described my husband more then every man. But the fact is just as the lines of what makes a woman feminine (revealing clothes and birth control) have been blurred the ideas of what makes a man masculine have been reduced to going to the gym and using women.
Did people always have this much trouble distinguishing gender roles?
Update: I was also thinking about that dopey article I linked above.
All women want to get married. There are more unmarried couples living in America than ever before. The 2000 census reported there are 9.7 million Americans living with an unmarried different-sex partner... Women want to mother men. Women want to mother children and pets. Sure, some women have a salvation complex, but most are annoyed by men who can't take care of themselves...I know many cohabitating couples and it drives me nuts. One of the things that drives me crazy is the women do twice the amount of work for the men I would do for my husband. Many of the women hold jobs, do the cooking and laundry, take care of the kids. One couple we know, the girl had a C-section on the Saturday before Thanksgiving and was cooking Thanksgiving dinner for his family.Then they do things like shovel the walk, take out the garbage, start and warm up the cars, drop the kids off at school while they allow the men to go out and party because they do not want to be seen as "high maintenance", "jealous" or "nagging".
