I'm sitting here watching this Nightline report on the Quiverfull Movement, and I just want to smack myself in the head....
Imagine: a protestant group that eschews birth control. And proposes that the wife be "submissive" to the man. And that suggests not all kids need to go to college, esp. girls, whose highest calling is to be mothers...
Sound like a bunch Catholics if you ask me...
Lindsay has great links at her blog...also check out Kathryn Joyce's article on Quiverfull in The Nation
One of the creepier elements to this is that all the families that seem to be really into reproducing are well-off white families. Guess it's okay for well-off whites to have lots of children, as long as God wants the to...
Wow. Don't blame God for your inability to keep your legs closed or your willie sufficiently tucked under. I think that's more a human problem than a sign of God's will that you have lots o'babies. (yes, the guy in the Nightline report alluded to te idea that it was not appropriate for his wife to refuse him sex. What a turd.)
Oh, and for another bit of irony--Nighline is followed by the Jimmy Kimmel Show. If there was ever an argument for birth control, it's Jimmy Kimmel.
'Nuff said.
Imagine: a protestant group that eschews birth control. And proposes that the wife be "submissive" to the man. And that suggests not all kids need to go to college, esp. girls, whose highest calling is to be mothers...
Sound like a bunch Catholics if you ask me...
Lindsay has great links at her blog...also check out Kathryn Joyce's article on Quiverfull in The Nation
One of the creepier elements to this is that all the families that seem to be really into reproducing are well-off white families. Guess it's okay for well-off whites to have lots of children, as long as God wants the to...
Wow. Don't blame God for your inability to keep your legs closed or your willie sufficiently tucked under. I think that's more a human problem than a sign of God's will that you have lots o'babies. (yes, the guy in the Nightline report alluded to te idea that it was not appropriate for his wife to refuse him sex. What a turd.)
Oh, and for another bit of irony--Nighline is followed by the Jimmy Kimmel Show. If there was ever an argument for birth control, it's Jimmy Kimmel.
'Nuff said.
posted by Tish Grier at 12:03 AM
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I've heard about this phenomenon before, if not in name. There's actually a good bit of racism involved, because what's not said in polite company is that many of these people are afraid that there aren't enough white babies being born to keep up with higher (real or perceived) minority birth rates.
the report was pretty clear that the movement isn't brand new (and started by some woman in England)...and if one does just the smallest bit of spelunking on the whole thing, it becomes pretty clear that there's some sort of racial thing going on.
The other thing that gets me, and has been lost, is that the birth control pill was "discovered" by a male Catholic (in Massachusetts, no less) and that, at that time in the 1960s Catholics were very much in favor of birth control because high birth rates and no control over pregnancy was a form of suffering and that birth control was a way of alleviating suffering...yes, it's in the book American Cathoic (possibly the best book on American Catholicism.)
I really there was a way to get more people to read about how and why the birth control movement came about, and that, historically, people have *always* looked for ways to control births because of the negative effect of so many births on women. Not every woman can have large numbers of children, and to judge the value of a woman by the small army her physical being can produces is amazingly dehumanizing.
Makes me wonder, too, how many children the woman who founded the movement had, or if she was "barren" and was "celebrating" her "sisters" abilities. That can be a werid psychological quirk that appears in some women who don't have children. Kinda creepy
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