New Pearl article dissection

[LynnKaboom]

Mods, if this isn't allowed, feel free to delete, but I just finished another Pearl article write-up. Since we've been discussing them a lot lately I thought I'd share my essay on it. This is the "Sanctuary" article where Michael Pearl describes his home as a supermax prison, basically. Has anyone else seen this article?

http://goeskaboom.insanejournal.com/41947.html#cutid1

[debrand]

Never allow them to listen to music through headphones

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What? :shock: I've read the article before but this is the first time I noticed that sentence.

We didn’t allow our children to spend time in their bedrooms unless they were working on a project or reading. Bedroom doors were always kept open, except for two minutes while dressing.

I have always wondered if Michael Pearl was molested as a child. He seems obsessed with sex and the possibility that his children will be abused or think about sex.

[hoipolloi]

I have always wondered if Michael Pearl was molested as a child. He seems obsessed with sex and the possibility that his children will be abused or think about sex.

That and the spanking rituals he promotes makes me think he's got serious psycho-sexual issues however they originated.

[Austin]

As far as I'm concerned, it's fine, LKB.

My personal preference is that part of the referenced post/article be briefly excerpted in the post here because I'm just much more likely to click on a link if I get a bit of a teaser first. But that could be due to my short attention span. :D

[latraviata]

That and the spanking rituals he promotes makes me think he's got serious psycho-sexual issues however they originated.

A probability bordering on certainty.

[emmiedahl]

I love how Pearl likes to point out how successful his kids are.

They are uneducated, unemployed, living in huts with no running water. (slow sarcastic clap) I will not be taking advice from a man who cannot out of his large brood produce a single productive citizen.

[raineymott]

That and the spanking rituals he promotes makes me think he's got serious psycho-sexual issues however they originated.

He does indeed seem like a creepy, perverted, sex-obsessed spanking-fetish old man.

[Austin]

Ugghhh. . . he is so gross. That CNN interview with him and the lovely Debi sitting in the blade of that bulldozer. . . well, I just don't know how anyone in their right mind could take him seriously just based on his gross-ness alone.

And what was up with sitting on the bulldozer? Don't they have chairs at chez Pearl? Jeesh, could they have tried any harder to look like a bunch of ignorant country bumpkins?

[TMS]

I would have gone insane being raised in that family. I'm an introvert and need time to myself every day. Two minutes of closed door time, just to dress? Seriously. I would have gone crazy.