Ladies, we might as well prepare for life in Jesusland

[Hello_Kitty]

Check this out.

http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/index.shtml

These fundie gals will help you to rid yourself of that evil secular liberal feminism that is preventing you from properly submitting to your husband and our Godly Prez-ident's Holy Mandate.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Hmmm

noticed nothing about women working outside the home. Wonder if this site will also lobby for living wages for workers, since it will no longer be possible for a two wage earner household.

These people would probably croak, but the articles on modesty of dress could have come from a Muslim forum, if you changed citations from the Bible to the Qur'an.... Speaking of modesty, why isn't this site going after the TV shows that depict scantily clad women and men?

[bluestateguy]

2. This is why women will not be drafted

People like these folks will scream and yell in protest, and these are people that Bush listens to.

[Hello_Kitty]

3. I actually noticed several articles that criticize *

On the abortion issue. So it's clear that they are on to how he has been holding them at bay. Now they are circling the wagons, demanding that he give them concessions.

[murielm99]

4. I read the crap about The Merchant Maiden.

Girls should stay home, they say. They should stay under their fathers' protection, not go to college, and prepare for the vocation of marriage.

They really are working hand-in-hand with the repukes to dumb down this country.

[ComerPerro]

5. I am checking their whole site, and I can't find one, not one

of the usual tell-tale signs that a site is a hoax, parody, satire, etc...

I am now terrified...

[Hello_Kitty]

7. At first I thought it was a "Betty Bowers" type parody

The name Ladies Against Feminism is just too absurd to be real. But sadly, they look to be a genuine site. :scared:

[blondeatlast]

14. I thought I had found one... but sadly not.

As soon as I saw their bookstore, with every title from Spence Publishing, I don't think it's a parody anymore.

Spence is the kind of publisher who doesn't sell to wholesalers or offer their books to the book press to review.

That's a VERY bad sign.

OTOH, it's almost too over-the-top, and the book linkds don't work.

Perhaps there's hope.

:scared:

[TreasonousBastard]

15. Well, there's "Miss Teat" writing...

an article.

Could be her real name, or it could be a clever clue.

I suspect that, once again, the web has proven that those we think are out there are really out there.

[Kellanved]

6. ouch

I'm not a lady, but clicked anyway. Shouldn't have.

Do these people know no shame, or why do they write lying equals science?
Their "Science"
http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/article_1547.shtml

And the grim reality:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3677570.stm

If this page isn't a hoax, and I have no reason to suspect that it is (yet), then: :grr:

[scarletlib]

8. well it's good for a "laf"

[terrya]

9. We're getting closer and closer to "The Handmaid's Tale".

Brought to you by the American Taliban.

[dolo amber]

10. I wonder

how much of that was actually penned by fundy "gals" and not their rabid woman-hating counterparts...

[gottalickbush]

11. Hmmm

Submit to my husband? I don't have a husband, so I wonder how that would work out for those of us that umm prefer the saqme sex.

[youthere]

43. oh well that's easy

didn't you know...you're supposed to go and burn directly in hell. Do not pass go, do not collect $200.(It's okay though, cause that 200 bucks is actually only worth about $70-so you're not missing that much.):crazy:
Now I went and did it..I dripped sarcasm all over my keyboard.

[SarahB]

12. "Dress modestly"

There's one. While I don't dress like a "ho", I do enjoy looking like a woman. That's never been a problem for any man I've had a relationship with.

[UdoKier]

16. I think feminists tend to dress MORE modestly

than women with barbie-doll, news info-babe type values....

[SarahB]

27. On the other hand

Looking noticeably feminine does not necessarily mean that one is not a feminist either. Expression of sexuality in terms of external image does not diminish a woman's mind in any way either. Plenty of women here may fit into a mold like this (albeit with less hair spray and the occasional Birkenstocks :D) that are very, very aware people at the same time.
Just saying. :)

[UdoKier]

28. I agree, but women who dress REALLY slutty...

...are usually not feminists.

But ti does take all kinds, and I certainly don't think that most feminists are Andrea Dworkin ("All sex is rape") types.

[SarahB]

30. That's true.

Most of those types I would suspect of being apolitical though. I know what you're saying though originally about the helmet hair Fox Newscaster archetype. It's a definite "look".

[Left Is Write]

32. Yeah, but feminists wear PANTS.

Those are men's clothing, you know!

My daughter's best friend has gone Pentecostal. She now wears only skirts, has stopped wearing makeup, and won't cut her hair. Her boyfriend (fiance! they are only seniors in high school!) doesn't want her to cut her hair. She has told my daughter that she can't get to heaven unless she feels the Holy Spirit in her (i.e. that speaking in tongues jazz).

This is a girl who used to be just like my daughter, who is a very liberal young woman, left wing Lutheran, definitely independent of any "good subservient woman" ideas. My daughter and I were discussing it yesterday, and I only hope she hangs onto her own ideas and doesn't succumb to the same influence that "conservatized" her friend. She did visit her friend's church once and didn't like it.

[WildClarySage]

47. Only if she feels the holy spirit in her? who told her that,

the boyfriend? Makes me wonder what he's nicknamed his dick.

[Left Is Write]

50. No, she learned it at her church.

I think the boyfriend belongs to the same church, though.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. Pentocostals shouldn't be allowed near computers.

OR are they amish? I can't figure it out.
Duckie

[Debbi801]

17. And yet even they post that they are against the mandatory mental health

screening for kids w/o parent's permission.

http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/cat_index_17.shtml
scroll about halfway down the page...

Teach Your Children Well
Let your Congressmen know, no mandatory mental-health screening for children!
Urge your two U.S. senators to support the Paul language to the omnibus spending bill. The language is as follows: "None of the funds made available for State incentive grants for transformation should be used for any programs of mandatory or universal mental-health screening that performs mental-health screening on anyone under 18 years of age without the express, written permission of the parents or legal guardians of each individual involved."

[tigereye]

39. well as a parent and mental health professional

I have to say that I am in agreement with that. I don't want anyone screening my kid without my permission.

[Debbi801]

49. Don't get me wrong, I am in complete agreement with that...

It just frightens me that I had anything in common with these people.

This coming from the grown daughter and grand daughter of psychologists (mother, father, grandmother). Growing up, just saying "hello" was an invitation to be analized by someone. ;)

[tigereye]

53. it's funny, since I know the value of screenings

but sometimes it seems we are obsessed with searching for pathology at every turn and cataloguing everyone. I promise my husband not to do any tests on my kid. ;) ( wouldn't be ethical anyway.)

[progressoid]

18. Kinda ironic that Nancy Reagan is her hero

Since she and Ron were fornicating before Ronnie's divorce from Jane Wyman had been finalized. SINNERS. I remember reading that Nancy was a bit of a Hollywood Ho back in the day. And then there is the contention that she was pregnant before she and Ron tied the knot. UBBER-SINNERS!

[Reverend_Smitty]

21. well by that description...

she is the perfect hero for them because all of those fundies are damn hypocrites!

[NewJeffCT]

38. wasn't Nancy

Wasn't Nancy known as the B/J Queen of Hollywood before she met St. Ronnie? And, we all know the quickest way to a man's heart is via quality B/Js...

[progressoid]

42. Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one to have heard that

[J-Lo Biafra]

19. Oh, please be a parody!

That's just horrible...:puke:

[Midlodemocrat]

20. That is one scary site.

...any chance it is a joke? I love the part about Nancy Reagan, but they left out the part where the God fearing Reagan knocked her up.

[Not_Giving_Up]

22. Please be a joke, please be a joke

But I don't think it is. This is exactly the crap spewed by my fundie mom's church.

[WCGreen]

23. What got to me was the 19th century dress...

This has to be a hoax, doesn't it?

I think the Jews in Berlin were saying that at the beginning as well.....

[nini]

24. Is this for real?

Holy crap.... please tell me it's a joke.


:puke:

[Left Is Write]

33. The site looks real enough.

Even if this particular site turned out to be a parody, believe me, there ARE women out there who believe like this. I've seen message boards in which women ask for advice on how to quell their "rebellious" feelings and submit to their husbands' control as the head of the household. I've seen message boards where women ask how to discourage their daughters from going to college. I've seen message boards where women are requested to seek permission from their husbands before posting.

The people are real and the movement is frightening.

[nini]

37. This is truly scary....

that will be the day I ASK for permission to do something.


Thankfully my mom raised me to be independent.

[tigereye]

40. that is just so sad

check out the disclaimer... that makes it even more sad. ( we don't want women to be zombies, blah, blah, blah)

[cmf]

25. these people are freaking nuts

Check out this article:

http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/article_800.shtml

"Shared values are essential to forming long-term relationships, but it is difficult to identify people who share your values in a social setting. Politics just aren’t sexy (unless you are Ann Coulter), and they don’t make for good flirtation fodder"

:scared:

[Not_Giving_Up]

26. ROTFLMAO

They consider Coulter to make politics sexy???

Now honey, you're just a woman...politics is man's business, don't worry your pretty little head about it.

[Cadence]

29. Holey Moley. Ann Coulter sexy?

NOW I've heard it all.

[BiggJawn]

31. How about a "50-year Marriage based on Great Sex"?

Integretity's good, too. So's intelligent converstaion and all that "feeling at one" stuff.

Just once, i'd like to see something like

"So, 60 years...What do you attribute over 1/2 a century of wedded bliss to?"

"Well, I'd have to say that, even though he's too old to climb up the ladder and clean out the gutters anymore, he still knows how to rock my world between the sheets...Know whuttamean, sonny?"

[Mad_Dem_X]

34. In the first line of that story, the writer mentions shopping at Wal-Mart

What a surprise.:eyes:

[BiggJawn]

35. So?

Having been forced by this "recovering economy" to shop at big, old EEEEEVUL Wally-World myself, I can tell you I have NEVER seen anyone getting a "I voted for BUSH" discount there...

Oh, I understand, it's a "Red State Thing", isn't it?.

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. Don't take it personally...

Jeez...

[BiggJawn]

45. Sorry, but I do take it personally.

No Costco or Home Depot here, not enough income to be a "socially aware consumer", and attitudes rampant on this board like "Only ReTHUGlicans shop at Wal-Mart, no Progressive worthy the name would be caught DEAD in there..."
You bet I take it personally. That and the Red-Blue bullshit, too.

[RevolutionaryActs]

36. Well I'll be damned.. we actually ARE going back in time!

:eyes:

[youthere]

44. Makes me want to

:puke:

[youthere]

46. Okay, Now I'm mad...

They've endorsed Wal-Mart and they've dissed Lizzie McGuire. :grr:
My daughter loves Lizzie and it's one of the few teenie role models out there that IS positive.

[strategery blunder]

48. The Netherlands Euthanasia article...

I would be surprised if the same people who said this is "a chilling reminder of how far 'choice' can go" think that 'euthanizing' babies in Iraq by bombing them is also wrong. Gotta Christianize those Arabs ya know.

Pharisees.

Oh, wait, Dutch children are white...I'm coming to my senses now...never mind.:eyes:

Disclaimer: I'm a male, but I'm still really freaked out by this:scared:

[strategery blunder]

51. Any guys reading this, be sure to check out "Responsible Manhood"

http://www.ladiesagainstfeminism.com/artman/publish/cat_index_20.shtml

:puke:

[BiggJawn]

54. Oh, wow...I lost the "Tour de Life", too!

here's a piece ragging Lance Armstrong for not staying in his marriage...
http://newswithviews.com/deParrie/paul17.htm

Gee, wonder what thr ever-Rightous Mr. deParrie would say about a TWO-TIME "loser" like ME?

I will agree with the page's underlieing thrust that Fathers are Important to their kids. Agree 100% But I guess i really shouldn't, since I'm an Atheist and have no idea what "morals" are...:7

[u4ic]

52. And a whole section

on "How To Get Back Home" complete with Victorian paintings of good little wives.

A day after the 15th anniversary of the Montreal massacre...where an madman killed women 14 because he hated feminists...and this idea that feminism is bad and has ruined the world is still pervasive. Maybe they should put the Andrea Dworkin book down and read less radical feminist authors.

It's very disturbing that the site's being run by women. :scared:

[Groggy]

55. Is this a joke??? n/t