Betty Georges is listed as a helper to the Governing Body Service Committee, according to this page on the website: https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/faq/governing-body-jw-helpers/
Anybody know anything about her?
Betty Georges - The Female Helper to the Governing Body
by MillennialDawn 34 Replies latest jw friends
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XBEHERE
Has to be a male. No way they are listing a sister as a helper even though I know that they use women for proof-reading, researhing, and opening mail to decide which dept/committee it gets routed to. Among other things I am sure of. They know as well as the rest of the world that women are as capable or in many cases more so than men at doing things. They will NEVER acknowledge this in such a public way such as a list on the internet though.
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Gorb
And Jody Jedele? Also listed.
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Magnum
Not a "her". Betty is a male. Same with Jody (mentioned right above).
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Disillusioned JW
https://www.everything-birthday.com/name/f/Betty says the following.
"Betty is predominantly a girls name, with 99.64% of Bettys being girls, and 0.36% being boys.
In the United States there have been a total of 3619 males named Betty, and 999979 females given the name".
I wonder if most of the males named Betty were intersexual (hermaphrodites) and thus if their sex (male or female) was ambiguous when born (especially if they were born before genetic tests were available). Another possibility that maybe they looked more like girls when they were born, thus causing the doctor and the parents to think the newborn baby was a girl. For example, maybe their testes had not yet descended. See https://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions/undescended-testes-cryptorchidism which says the following.
"Undescended testicles, also known as cryptorchidism, is a fairly common and normally painless congenital condition in which one or both of a baby's testicles (testes) have not moved into the proper position. One to 2 percent of male infants are affected. ...
Premature babies are affected by undescended testicles at a higher rate. The more premature your baby is, the higher the chance of having an undescended testicle."
Another possibility is that maybe in many cases the parents really wanted a girl to be born instead of a boy, and/or maybe they were expecting a girl to be born, and thus gave the baby a girl's name. Another possibility is that the parents of the child didn't know the name is overwhelmingly a girl's name. https://babynames.com/name/betty says the following.
"The name Betty is primarily a female name of English origin that means God Is My Oath.
diminutive form of Elizabeth" -
LostintheFog1999
I noticed that both Jody's and Betty's names appear under the bold heading SERVICE.
Obviously they are two women who service GB members.
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Disillusioned JW
The JW web page says says the following. "Service Committee: Oversees our work of preaching the “good news of the Kingdom.” I reject the idea expressed in the remark of "they are two women who service GB members." I totally reject the claim that Jody and Betty 'service' the governing body members in the modern slang sexually derogatory sense of 'service a man' and of 'servicing men'.
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enoughisenough
Disillusioned JW, some people on here aren't good at keeping their mind out of the gutter and then they like to flaunt it.
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Roddy
I'm 99.999% sure they are not females. Only males are in such positions. I'm sure there are interesting stories on how they have names normally associated with females.
I once knew a gentleman from Trinidad named Vivian.
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enoughisenough
" name him Bill, George, anything but SUE!"