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Originally Posted by GDwarf
It's still, literally, saying that a woman's place is in the home, no matter what she may feel about that.
But why have any limits imposed on the functions? Doing so is an inherent value judgment, it is saying that women aren't good at leadership, that they aren't good at working that, in fact, the only thing they are good at is child-raising and cleaning.
Clearly that is sexist.
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Well if you want to take the lesson of ehp. less literally, you can just look at it as each person having certain roles, and those roles being comlimentary to eachother. it doesn't matter what they are. in one family, it may mean the dad stays home and the mom works, or one person takes care of finances and the other, cleaning..etc etc. the MAIN imortant lesson here is that both people have to be mutually and complimentarily contributing to the welfare of the home, and even though one person gets the leadership position, the two are teammates.
I was thinking about this Jeffs dude and his situation... or rather the women and children's situations... that quote from the woman saying she felt she had no choice but to ignore the little voice of rationality in her... it's especially hard when your faith, at the highest levels, makes you swear on your life that you will not "sympathize" with anyone who speaks against the church. this means that technically, if your own child denies the church, you're commiting a sin if you still associate with them, because the person is literally being controlled by the devil and just being around that person is threatening to your faith. It tears families apart.
Th internal conflict causes many people to be resigned to a life of ether having to pretend to believe and put on a charade, or be ostracized by their family. That can really ruin a person's spiritual and mental well-being, an I'm sure it's something those women experienced at it's highest level. for them, they were stuck in their plight, or else they would be cast out, despized, and probably kept from their children. they'd have NOTHING at all.