Why Michelle Duggar might not be done yet by Vyckie The Internet is buzzing with news of the premature birth of Josie Brooklyn Duggar ~ Michelle’s 19th child, who was delivered via emergency c-section last Thursday at only 25 weeks gestation and weighing a mere 1 lb. 6 oz. Kate Harding, at Salon.com pointedly asks the question of the hour: Baby No. 19 is born extremely premature; will Michelle’s god ever give the poor woman a break? Of interest to me, is a comment on Kate’s article: God gave them brains too ~ So why don’t Full post …
Archive for 2009
Patriarchy Across Cultures: When The Levee Breaks
by Tapati Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good, When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move. —Led Zeppelin version, original lyrics by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie. Previously some friends had offered me shelter at their cabin in Big Bear, a mountain community. I said a tearful goodbye to my husband Mike—now known as Mahasraya following our initiation. Their cabin was cute and had an amazing view of the snowy landscape. The main living area contained the kitchen, Full post …
I’m beginning to understand male privilege ‹(ô¿ô)›
by Vyckie OMG ~ I am in such horrible pain! I guess part of what’s got me feeling so cranky lately is that the pain which is focused in my hip and radiates over the whole left side of my body ~ from my fingers down to my ankle (oh ~ my elbow!) ~ is back. I used to live with this pain night and day for years and years, but not long after the divorce, when things started settling down for me so that I was no longer chronically stressed, it went away completely Full post …
It’s Complicated: Why It Wasn’t as Obvious as It Seems Like It Should Have Been
by Journey One thing I struggle with, as I painfully write some of the facts of my QF Patriarchal Marriage, is that the abuse wasn’t as obvious as you might think. I’d venture to say that 99.9% of the people we were around had no clue. I always get a kick out of how most patriarchy supporters speak up so quickly about how they are “opposed to abuse.” Are they really? Abuse always seems so stark, so obviously abusive, when you *read* about it, but in real life? Generally, not so much. For example, Mark’s Full post …
Daughter of the Patriarchy: Old-Girl in Young-Girl Disguise
by Sierra “What did you think?” My mother asked, as our blue Chevrolet rolled smoothly out of the parking lot, mingling with more expensive cars on a fresh-paved freeway. “I liked it,” responded seven-year-old I. “I actually listened.” We were talking about our first visit to Anna and Sven’s church, an informal affair that gathered weekly in the upper annex of a suburban YMCA. The church had begun in the pastor’s living room, hosting only two or three families. Over the next few years it had grown to six or seven. The pastor and his Full post …
Vyckie’s Tour de Crap: The Elsie Books
This’ll be interesting. While cooped up in the three back rooms with Warren and all six kids during the remodeling project, I picked up one of Angel’s books, “Elsie Dinsmore” ~ just skimming through when something caught my attention and led to me reading the entire 8 book set. (More volumes have since been published.) I was seriously rolling my eyes the whole way through. I wrote this review and submitted it to Harvey & Laurie Bluedorn’s “Teaching the Trivium” discussion list for classical ed. homeschoolers. The Elsie Books The main problem I have Full post …
Vyckie’s Tour de Crap: Quiverfull and the Life of the Mother
The recent “Born to Breed” episode of “Secret Lives of Women” has attracted quite a bit of attention from practicing Quiverfull women ~ and several QF/P blogs are discussing my story and NLQ. I appreciate that quite a few of these blog commenters are giving thoughtful consideration to the message here. But many others are insisting that my Quiverfull “conviction” was a burdensome form of legalism rather than a true calling from the Lord. It is frustrating to read their comments as these women dismiss my Quiverfull experience as irrelevant by concluding that what we were doing in Full post …
“Go to Oregon and build an ark”
by Journey Mark said we were going to move to Oregon. I didn’t want to move to Oregon (I hated the rain), and I told him so, but that didn’t matter. He had heard from God. More specifically, he had heard God tell him to, “Go to Oregon and build an ark.” What that meant, we did not know, but Mark had heard it quite clearly. I wasn’t about to argue with God. The strange thing was that Mark regularly mocked people who “heard from God” about things. He felt that spiritual gifts were generally abused, Full post …
Michelle says, Never enough babies!
