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So we're settling in just fine, despite wanting the husband to be around to give me a break from these monsters I seem to have brought into this world. I am at this point wondering why I'm pregnant again with Watermelon.... But the beauty of it all, which sometimes the world doesn't seem to understand is that I along with a microscopic help from my love (no disrespect to his fatherhood), get to choose to create life inside me once again. Personally, the fact that God entrusted women to create life proves our divinely appointed importance and in many ways supremacy, but really this post is not about who's better, it's about giving credit to women where it's deserved.
Let me start venting....Today in sunday school we discussed the Stripling Warriors. Currently my all time favorite story of the Book of Mormon: It's like watching an action packed war thriller with innocent little kids who go through the hardest ritualistic process of self development and become immortalized heroes all due to their warrior mothers who have taught them to be the best! Can I just say, they should've picked me to teach that class?! Our new ward is great, and there are many a scriptorian/expert historical analysts, and most women would have had a problem taking a complete feminist lesson and bringing it to life in front of so many expert men. That's I they should've picked ME to teach the class. Maybe I'll enlist myself to talk in sacrament about this topic.
As the instructor starts, she mentions she wants to focus on the leaders of these amazing 2000 kids in the story. She then proceeds to group the "mothers" as parents. And of course, there was Heleman, their military leader. First, this story which is comprised of a few long chapters, needs to be covered in more than 45 minutes of Sunday School. Second, we could easily spend 45 minutes talking about one of the various attributes of these mothers, and how that common attribute led their 2000 boys to become the Stripling Warriors.
When the instructor mentioned grouping the mothers as parents, my heart skipped a beat. Then came a comment from a brother that suggested that most of the men had died in fighting (makes historical sense if you read the story) so these kids were being raised by single mothers. A totally valid point, and EVEN MORE reason to credit these warrior women! Someone else mentioned that some of the men were already away fighting which is also probably true, do you see my point? I guess my problem is this. We live in a world where women don't get enough credit for what we do. These women despite being husbandless temporarily or permanently were raising beyond extraordinary boys. These women deserved to have at least one chapter written just about them. But instead we get little snippets of verses giving some long overdue credit to mothers and we choose to oversee and downplay them???
That's my problem. We don't get enough credit for what we do. We never have, and despite how much we seem to fight each other and the opposite sex we never will. Only in Heaven, really Heaven, will we get all the credit we so deserved here in this life. And if I don't get it there, sorry I won't stick around. It's already hard enough to belong to a religious body whose culture keeps perpetuating the downplay of our abilities, intelligence and capabilities because we are supposed to stay home and take care of our children. ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME?! Do you NOT know what that means?!! And for you women reading this, let me tell YOU something: I don't know how you see yourself. If you choose to stay home, you better know why you're there and do your best damn job while at home. If you are against women who work, judge them or whatever, we are all doing ourselves a HUGE disservice by picking sides. If you are a career woman and have never spent a week raising a child, girl, let me tell you something: YOU got it EASY!
Bottom line is: We should all be on the same side, the women's side. I bet the Amazons didn't deal with all the backbiting of career women vs stay at home mommies. Somebody has to do this job! If you have chosen to stay home and do it, then NEVER again judge the women who have chosen to go out and earn a living. If you are a career woman, thank the women who have chosen to concentrate their efforts in raising citizens who can one day make the world a better place for you. Like yours truly.
Ok, I feel better now.
It's time to start joining our own cause and fight back. Holler if you agree!
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