Wedding Present: The Family Happiness book

by Nosferatu 58 Replies latest jw friends

  • jwbot
    jwbot

    Well dorkycrass, the head-in-the-sand argument, well you are entitled to your own beleifs. Just do not try and deny that they are sexist. I thought that is what you were trying to refute, if not...thats fine.

  • happyout
    happyout

    Dorkycrass said "That is if you choose to be a full-time homemaker, but of course you can always hire a nanny"

    Ok, let's see. Faithful witless witness sister marries faithful witless witness brother. He, being so faithful, has a job as a janitor (wouldn't want to waste time on secular education, would we?). They live in a dinky apartment, one step away from moving back in with the parents. The faithful sister may choose to be a full time homemaker, but wait, shouldn't she be pioneering with all her free time?? And of course, if they were a truly faithful couple, they would not have children, but let's just say there was a little goof up and along comes junior. Now, this fiscally responsible husband who brings in the most household money has even more debt, but his wife can "choose to be a full time homemaker"? Oh, sorry, that's right, she can always "hire a nanny" with the extravagant wealth her husband has accumulated scrubbing toilets.

    I don't know if you live in an unusually wealthy area, but where I live over 90% of the women work, and they don't have much of a choice. Sure, they could give up living in a fairly safe neighborhood, and wear clothes from a decade ago, and not have money to give any extras to their children, not have savings for a rainy day, etc., but who in their right mind wants to live like that?

    I was a dub for over 20 years, and I can count on one hand the number of them who could have afforded to "hired a nanny". I don't know if this was your attempt at sarcasm, but it's so far beyond reality that it's ridiculous.

    That book was written by a bunch of old men with little or no recent experience in the real world, and can easily be used as fire kindling.

    Happyout

  • drwtsn32
    drwtsn32

    Yes, the dubs are incredibly sexist. But they aren't doing it without coaching from the bible. The bible is extremely demeaning to women. I hated it even as a dub!

  • Stacy Smith
    Stacy Smith

    Let's not forget the dorks that wrote this book are career virgins.

    Headship is God's arrangement, I subject to that.

    Give me a break. It's the societys arrangement and you not only subject to that you're a slave to it. You will make some meek woman a great headmaster one day. But you won't subject a woman with a brain.

  • minimus
    minimus

    Getting this Watchtower publication for a wedding present is like a waitress getting a Watchtower as a tip.

  • Spudinator
    Spudinator

    Getting this Watchtower publication for a wedding present is like a waitress getting a Watchtower as a tip. How else are we supposed to clear out our stock of those trusty old "horses?"

  • JeffT
    JeffT

    Well evidently our household has gone apostate in all apects. My wife is busy with a career in early childhood education, and I do most of the cooking and cleaning.

    How do these guys manage to write so much about a subject about which they are completely clueless?

  • Spudinator
    Spudinator

    How do these guys manage to write so much about a subject about which they are completely clueless?

    You said a mouthful, Mac. This single sentence posed as a question sums up the whole Watchtower Publishing Empire.

  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    You can show your gratitude for her gift by sending her a copy of Crisis of Conscience.

  • berylblue
    berylblue
    You can show your gratitude for her gift by sending her a copy of Crisis of Conscience.

    LMAO at Elsewhere.

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