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Raised in the 70s
November 28, 2019 at 10:54 am
JR,
“but I wonder what can be done to teach young women not to take that bunk seriously whether it comes from Sister Andelin, Sister Dalton, SWK or others.”
The BYU Women’s Conference this year included a Face-to-Face session where the president of the Relief Society commented that “We women tend to be shrill or demanding or stubborn, thinking we have the best idea ever,” Bingham said to audience laughter, “and if they don’t see it our way, clearly there’s a problem here.”
https://www.sltrib.com/religion/2019/05/03/latter-day-saint-womens/
When this kind of undermining of women’s authority and voice comes from the highest female church officer, how do we counteract it? We’re told it’s wrong to criticize our leaders, even when the criticism is valid. We’re told, as women, to speak up but not too much and to not assume a role that’s not ours. We’re supposed to be assertive (within limits) but always submissive to priesthood authority which we may or may not hold. We tell young women not to delay marriage or children, but arbitrarily revoke Medicaid as an acceptable option for them to remain in school while simultaneously not going into debt, getting all the education they can, and multiplying and replenishing the earth. The church tells women not to lobby for rights, but when changes are eventually made that are exactly the thing women were asking for, the church won’t acknowledge women’s advocacy and contribution to the changes.
What suggestions do you have to teach young women to navigate the bunk?Share
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