I just don’t think we’ve unraveled how women, power, purity, and sexuality work in this church. Kristine’s post should be the default, but it’s so much easier to talk about control and so much easier to expect women to do the emotional work of keeping men in line (think about all the time we talk about women nudging their husbands to do their priesthood duties). I mean we have lesson after lesson about how women are the support structure to men. We are not accustomed to thinking of women as powerful agents with sexuality who are more then their purity. And we have years and years of teachings to dismantle.
I just don’t think we’ve unraveled how women, power, purity, and sexuality work in this church. Kristine’s post should be the default, but it’s so much easier to talk about control and so much easier to expect women to do the emotional work of keeping men in line (think about all the time we talk about women nudging their husbands to do their priesthood duties). I mean we have lesson after lesson about how women are the support structure to men. We are not accustomed to thinking of women as powerful agents with sexuality who are more then their purity. And we have years and years of teachings to dismantle.