"She is supposed to want to be a girlboss, for that is the highest and best calling a woman can achieve. To tell a man what to do and yet be a victim while doing it, what more is there in life?" That is brilliant!
I think you've hit at something profoundly important here, which is how, in the contemporary world, we've so overcomplicated everything or turned everything into a problem that it's virtually impossible to just live a quiet, ordinary life and be satisfied with it. Everything must be meta level reflected on and over thought and over defined or deconstructed until we are all paralyzed and anxious and neurotic.
Ironically, all this emerged, at least in part, from a rejection of traditional and creational norms in the name of unrestrained personal freedom and autonomy. It calls to mind 2 Peter 2:19, "They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity..."
First world debates and "struggles." For the first time in world history an average woman can provide for her own physical needs and live alone in relative safety and ease. We have too much leisure time to obsess over how hard, wronged, unfair, and miserable life is while we sit in our air-conditioned homes, eat food that we neither grew nor slaughtered, and wear clothing that we neither wove, sewed, nor beat on the rocks in the river to wash.
I love this video! Here in Texas, every time there is a state election, there are always several proposed amendments to the state constitution. The general rule of thumb is “vote against all of ‘em.”
I feel your pain. My son and I did the room switch a couple of months ago— my craft room/office and his bedroom— which involved painting both rooms and much schlepping of stuff up and down stairs. (I bet your deep blue is lovely! I went with a very princess-y, very demure pinky beige after giving up the bright coral I had before.)
I appreciate that Anne shares household matters so I have something to contribute. I’m not a smart woman, to paraphrase Forrest Gump.
As a girl, I found the women’s conversations about recipes and coupons going on in the kitchen boring. I much preferred sitting on the living room floor listening to the men discuss theology and politics. I still love lurking and learning, but now will gladly flit from the kitchen to the living room.
Nichole, you seem reasonably smart to me. You articulate yourself well and seem capable of understanding and discussing ideas. I was in church for more than a decade with a group of women who were acolytes of Jen Hatmaker, Glennon Doyle, and Rachel Held Evans. They didn't/don't seem particularly smart to me. Women like you and Anne are a breath of fresh air.
Very Jo March of you! I feel similarly; I’ve come to genuinely love cooking for my small family and loving on its various members. School made me think that I was smart because I could read and write well. “Real life” has taught me the value of the types of intelligence I was implicitly taught to look down on (“on which I was taught to look down.” 🤪).
It strikes me that a cool thing about Anne's Substack is that you can leave a comment entirely about practical household matters and I can leave one entirely about political/cultural matters in response to the same post, and both are germane.
"She is supposed to want to be a girlboss, for that is the highest and best calling a woman can achieve. To tell a man what to do and yet be a victim while doing it, what more is there in life?" That is brilliant!
Heads I win, Tails you lose!
Yes. I loved that passage too.
I think you've hit at something profoundly important here, which is how, in the contemporary world, we've so overcomplicated everything or turned everything into a problem that it's virtually impossible to just live a quiet, ordinary life and be satisfied with it. Everything must be meta level reflected on and over thought and over defined or deconstructed until we are all paralyzed and anxious and neurotic.
Ironically, all this emerged, at least in part, from a rejection of traditional and creational norms in the name of unrestrained personal freedom and autonomy. It calls to mind 2 Peter 2:19, "They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity..."
First world debates and "struggles." For the first time in world history an average woman can provide for her own physical needs and live alone in relative safety and ease. We have too much leisure time to obsess over how hard, wronged, unfair, and miserable life is while we sit in our air-conditioned homes, eat food that we neither grew nor slaughtered, and wear clothing that we neither wove, sewed, nor beat on the rocks in the river to wash.
Facts.
"Is it possible to be against everything?"
My sentiments this morning also...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHash5takWU
"I don't know what they have to say. It makes no difference anyway. Whatever it is, I'm against it!" - Groucho Marx
(also see: Democrats with Trump)
I love this video! Here in Texas, every time there is a state election, there are always several proposed amendments to the state constitution. The general rule of thumb is “vote against all of ‘em.”
I feel your pain. My son and I did the room switch a couple of months ago— my craft room/office and his bedroom— which involved painting both rooms and much schlepping of stuff up and down stairs. (I bet your deep blue is lovely! I went with a very princess-y, very demure pinky beige after giving up the bright coral I had before.)
I appreciate that Anne shares household matters so I have something to contribute. I’m not a smart woman, to paraphrase Forrest Gump.
As a girl, I found the women’s conversations about recipes and coupons going on in the kitchen boring. I much preferred sitting on the living room floor listening to the men discuss theology and politics. I still love lurking and learning, but now will gladly flit from the kitchen to the living room.
Nichole, you seem reasonably smart to me. You articulate yourself well and seem capable of understanding and discussing ideas. I was in church for more than a decade with a group of women who were acolytes of Jen Hatmaker, Glennon Doyle, and Rachel Held Evans. They didn't/don't seem particularly smart to me. Women like you and Anne are a breath of fresh air.
Very Jo March of you! I feel similarly; I’ve come to genuinely love cooking for my small family and loving on its various members. School made me think that I was smart because I could read and write well. “Real life” has taught me the value of the types of intelligence I was implicitly taught to look down on (“on which I was taught to look down.” 🤪).
It strikes me that a cool thing about Anne's Substack is that you can leave a comment entirely about practical household matters and I can leave one entirely about political/cultural matters in response to the same post, and both are germane.
See this is why I despise Substack. It won't let me post a photo of my garage-cleaning project.
I think Ms. Palmer's position is incredibly mock-worthy, and I thought Ms. Lynch did an excellent job, applying the appropriate mockery.
May God cleanse us all from this rampant disease of self-absorption.
When I take my daughter on a date I treat her like a princess. When I take my wife in a date, I treat her like a queen.
What if we believe you that the chapter books are not worth the price of postage, but we still want to know their titles?