I think I'm disappointed at Christian or traditionalist representation in media. Today, I watched a buzzfeed video where a Satanist and a Christian get handcuffed together for 24 hours. I got excited, anticipating nostalgia for the Christian values -
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Fuck no. I was like, "Oh, I am a girl, I need to learn to submit to my future husband," and then I went around practicing obedience and reading the bible. Was I upset by this? Yes, a little, but fucking *privately*, and I was ashamed to admit that I was upset.
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I strongly believed that God had made me fundamentally different from a man - that I was less rational, more emotional, and weaker. I believed that I could not be trusted with responsibility to make decisions for the family. I believed I had no business being in power over men.
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I was allowed to teach child boys, but was not allowed to lead Bible studies if men were present. I would often sit in the car waiting for a male to open the car door for me. My parents always talked about my future as a wife and mother as the default.
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Media filtering played a huge part in causing me to accept this. We mostly watched TV shows from the 1950s and 1960s (though my father was uncomfortable with I Love Lucy because Lucy was too disrespectful to Ricky), cartoons like Spongebob, and Christian media.
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is there any where you elaborate more on this? it sounds insanely interesting to hear a systematic account of stuff like this,!!
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I've got plans to knock out a book detailing all of this.
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