Ok, so I may be a bit late to this conversation, but I'm going to say something nonetheless. Besides that, it's not like Feminism is going away any time soon.
It's about this "wearing pants to church" bit.
Started by Mormon Child Bride with this post I believe:
http://mormonchildbride.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-dignity-of-your-womanhood.html
If you don't want to read it, it's a whole lot of malarkey about women's suffrage through the ages and how you can't just talk about the issues, you've got to DO something…like chain yourself to the White House gates. OR…wear pants to church. (I don't think she actually presents the idea in this post, it was just the beginning of her idea).
Then I ran across this blog post by C. Jane Kendrick (sister of Stephanie Nielson who authors the blog nieniedialogues.com): http://www.cjanekendrick.com/2012/12/proving-myself.html
She's latched on to this idea of wearing pants to church as something really important to do.
Honestly, when I read this post I was so embarrassed for her and for Mormon women in general who have adopted this kind of thinking.
Really, it's embarrassing and childish…which makes sense that this "movement" was started by Mormon Child Bride. Perhaps she should grow up a bit before she puts on her big girl pants.
All I could think over and over again was PLEASE, get out of Utah so you can gain some perspective.
Just out of curiosity I decided to check out C. Jane's sisters' blog to see what she was writing about on the same day that C. Jane was "Proving" herself. It was a twelve year summary about her beautiful life as a mother and being married to her husband. Not even the remotest mention of "pants".
Why not? Because she knows what matters.
In the post she wrote the day before this she said:
FYI:
I am perfectly happy and content with my role as woman
and mother in the Mormon faith. I feel fulfilled and loved.
I believe if we have a personal relationship
with God and the Savior, Jesus Christ
and we feel confident in his love for us we don't need prove anything to anyone.
This is what I am going to adamantly teach my girls.
I am perfectly happy and content with my role as woman
and mother in the Mormon faith. I feel fulfilled and loved.
I believe if we have a personal relationship
with God and the Savior, Jesus Christ
and we feel confident in his love for us we don't need prove anything to anyone.
This is what I am going to adamantly teach my girls.
Amen.
Surely this was a response to all the feminist hubbub going on around her and I don't think she could have said it better.
Ironically her sisters title post the next day was "Proving Myself".
Why does one sister feel so content and happy with her role while the other feels it necessary to "prove [her]self"?
Getting angry with the Mormon church for "inequality" is downright stupid.
Women who are truly paying attention to the things that matter will find no other church where they are more loved and respected than in this church.
You're fighting against the wrong thing.
