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Who else read Jill’s book? I thought she let her parents off realllly lightly. I’m curious to hear thoughts from non redditards.
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I bought it and will read it this weekend.Who else read Jill’s book? I thought she let her parents off realllly lightly. I’m curious to hear thoughts from non redditards.
I don't believe anyone pities her, because boys have their own difficulties that include most of the ones she listed there. She just wants to be special but is a dud of a person.Karissa being insanely creepy about her daughters and revealing her internalized misogyny
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I pity the girls she views as just future broodsows (and forces to be the primary caregivers of their younger siblings).I don't believe anyone pities her, because boys have their own difficulties that include most of the ones she listed there. She just wants to be special but is a dude of a person.
"Seven financial burdens" how, exactly, are girls more of a financial burden? Are you expecting to have to buy them a husband like the Indians do? And if that's indeed the case, why is a dowry a huge burden when you don't plan on giving them any sort of education anyway?Karissa being insanely creepy about her daughters and revealing her internalized misogyny
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It’s probably because they think Jesus said that women shouldn’t have jobs and should stay at home caring for the kids all day. So they aren’t ever going to be “entering the workforce” and financially contributing towards food or bills. Of course motherhood and housekeeping is a whole full time job in its own right but don’t expect someone who has alarmingly large amounts of internalised misogyny to understand that."Seven financial burdens" how, exactly, are girls more of a financial burden? Are you expecting to have to buy them a husband like the Indians do? And if that's indeed the case, why is a dowry a huge burden when you don't plan on giving them any sort of education anyway?
Make it make sense.
If you think everyone was letting Rusty off the hook, we do not inhabit the same reality.Fundie men divorcing seems to be better tolerated, like Rusty Yates divorcing Andrea after she went to prison and could no longer fulfill her role as a baby factory.
I really wish the role fundie insanity played in the Andrea Yates case was more widely discussed, as well as what a nasty creepy shithead Rusty Yates is (who absolutely deserves some blame for what happened). When the trial happened that shit felt like it was completely overlooked and everyone was treating Rusty like an innocent victim, and even to this day outside of dedicated fundie-criticizing spaces it's not really discussed.
Did you seriously respond to a months old comment just to share this deep thought?If you think everyone was letting Rusty off the hook, we do not inhabit the same reality.
His second wife divorced him, IIRC.Did you seriously respond to a months old comment just to share this deep thought?
Edited to add that Rusty Yates was allowed to continue living his life. He even remarried and had a new and improved family. That doesn't really sound like a guy who is "on the hook" to me.
thought Jill was beyond generous to be honest. She kept emphasizing how much her parents loved her, and left out the things like blanket training and the horrible education she got, and very much glossed over how she was forced to sister mom so early. I get why she focused on the stuff she did, as most of it was the fairly recent stuff, her marriage, the Josh scandals, the financial abuse. I think it will take her much longer to both come to terms with and speak about her childhood in negative terms, if she ever will. She also didn’t seemed to have absorbed that her dad committed some variety of tax fraud in her and her husband’s name, but I suspect that will be truly hitting soon. I hope the IRS have Jim Bob in their sights right now. That’s the bit that I found truly worth buying the book for tbh. And I honestly came away with a decent picture of Derek. Still a pretentious ass, but one who clearly loves his wife and supports her, which is more than a lot of the guys in fundiedom.Who else read Jill’s book? I thought she let her parents off realllly lightly. I’m curious to hear thoughts from non redditards.
The relationship was doomed from the start. It takes a particular kind of personality to be able to stay in a relationship with a person his mom doesn't like. Ethan does not have that kind of personality.The Plaths are mentioned itt, right? Not sure how "newsy" it is because they've separated before but Ethan and Olivia have separated again and this time it looks permanent. His evil mom is probably rejoicing.
Link (yeah, I know it's a shitty source)