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Originally posted by House of David:
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House of David..home teachers are men, visiting teacher are women..
Cool.
wait...
What?
so.. women can't teach at home?
i'm not sure this makes any sense, other than calling women 2nd class citizens, liek the CoC does.
the CoC my wife used to attend had a youth program that her parents kept trying to get us to put our 2 kids in...
it was called "lads and lasses to leaders and leaderettes."
when pressed to it, when they wouldn't just take ' nah, we'd rather not' for an answer i ended up hurting their feelings a little, and todl them 'maybe YOU think it's ok to teach your little girls that they will never be as good as boys, that while they might make it to 'leaderette' they will never be a 'leader', but i plan on teaching my daughter to never settle for equal, to always go one step farther than the boys can.'
i told them the good part was that for a woman to prove she is twice as good as a man means she only has to work half as hard.
they are generally nice people, really... they just have that one little thing that makes me want to smack them both. they really truly believe that wife=servant. that man=master.
they really believe that it's mandated by God that a woman must never elevate herself past any man. ever. for any reason. in any situation.
they think Oprah is wrong because she allowed herslf to become the No. 1 talk show host. No. 2 would have been fine... but No. 1 means that someplace there is definatly a man that she raised herself above, and she should have quit before allowing that to happen.
anyway. they make me nuts with that whole thing, and they are finding it hard to not teach my kids their beliefs. not out of malice, mind, but from sheer habit. to give them credit they don't try and foist that kind of thing on my kids behind my back.
i told them - it took me several years working on their daughter to make her feel like she was a worthwhile whole human being, and not a kitchen whench - and i was not going to allow them to do the same kind of damage to my daughter.
anyway.
what was i talking about?
i hate it when i ramble.....