Is a marriage being arranged for Bria Crawford?

[Witsec1]

Bria Crawford is writing for Natalie Klewja's visionarywomanhood.com blog. It is a group blog, but most of the other authors are older married women and most seem to be from a group Klewja started for "Visionary Women" in her Twin Cities 'burb. Bria is the only young woman. So it popped into my head that maybe Bria was being evaluated as a potential mate for Klewja's 18 year old son. The son is studying communications and multimedia via College Plus and will graduate at 19. How involved do parents of sons get in the courtship process? Do they suggest potential courtship objects? Is there discussion between parents before the kids are pushed together?

BTW, this family is deep into the Vision Forum trip. The son had a short film in the San Antonio Christian Film Festival, and Klewja has a new book coming out about how to host koolaid klatsches for "Visionary Women". Her blog and the one she used to have at visionarywomanhood.blogspot.com are full of everything you might expect - public schools want to recruit your child for humanism and homosex, public libraries are evil, liberals are Hitler, read this great baby-beating manual, etc, etc ad nauseam.

[Markie]

I have never quite understood why many fundies consider public libraries evil. Yes, there are some books they wouldn't approve of, but there are fundy-approved books in libraries as well. Do they have the same issues with book stores, because last time I checked bookstores generally sell a wide variety of books?

[keeperrox]

Hmmmm... too bad he's not very attractive.

How's that for shallow?

Anyway, in the little that I've read (I can't really tolerate GC or Kelly herself), I've never been impressed by Bria. Maybe it's because I can't stand her mother, but I never had a soft spot for her like I do for some of the others in families we discuss.

[uber frau]

Bria is a pretty valuable slave though. I don't know if Kelly could do without her. How old is the next potential minion oldest daughter?

[bananacat]

I have never quite understood why many fundies consider public libraries evil. Yes, there are some books they wouldn't approve of, but there are fundy-approved books in libraries as well. Do they have the same issues with book stores, because last time I checked bookstores generally sell a wide variety of books?

Public libraries are part of the evil government, and they're "socialism" because people get to use them for free with taxpayer money. This means that the taxpayer money of Real True Christians could be "redistributed" when the wrong kind of person gets something for free that they didn't earn. If those lazy others want to read a book, they should pull themselves up by their bootstraps and earn the money to buy the book. I know that the Maxwells won't sell their books to libraries because they say it's like stealing, but really it just means that they personally get less money.

There's also a strong anti-intellectualism among fundies, so public libraries seem frivolous to them. Even those of them that encourage reading generally have such a limited selection that a library seems unnecessary.

[Witsec1]

BTW, Natalie Klewja is at or just on the other side of 45, and she has the little one in the photo and another on the way. I am 48, and perimenopause is kicking my ass really hard. I can't imagine dealing with young kids on top of that.

[MamaJunebug]

Bria is a pretty valuable slave though. I don't know if Kelly could do without her. How old is the next potential minion oldest daughter?

Not old enough, I'm thinking.

I don't see Bria going much of anywhere for a while from the looks of her sibling set. And why would she want to, when she has a new Babylock to play with in that fine new post-tornado house that's being built for her mumsie and daddy? :whistle:

[GolightlyGrrl]

Not old enough, I'm thinking.

I don't see Bria going much of anywhere for a while from the looks of her sibling set. And why would she want to, when she has a new Babylock to play with in that fine new post-tornado house that's being built for her mumsie and daddy? :whistle:

Mmm, interesting Bria is holding the baby and not Kelly or Kelly's husband.

[Witsec1]

Yeah, I'm not sure how old Bria is. And I don't see Kelly wanting to give up her live-in nanny, but I wondered if OfKlewja maybe had ideas of stealing her away.

[Lostie]

Mmm, interesting Bria is holding the baby and not Kelly or Kelly's husband.

More like par for the course.

On the other hand, the next girl looks to be about 12-13 so she is entering the stage where fundies really start the push for girls' slavery. Although I'm only going off looks so she could be younger.

[luckylibrarian]

Yeah, I'm not sure how old Bria is. And I don't see Kelly wanting to give up her live-in nanny, but I wondered if OfKlewja maybe had ideas of stealing her away.

Yeah, this could be it. Natalie Klewja's oldest kids are boys, so she really doesn't have a female slave daughter that is old enough to take on the responsibility of raising the youngest ones. Bria could raise her mother-in-law's children until she starts popping out her own litter.

You may be on to something here.

ETA: Bria's younger sister looks about 10 or 11 to me - not quite old enough to raise her mother's children. I could be wrong, though.

[bananacat]

ETA: Bria's younger sister looks about 10 or 11 to me - not quite old enough to raise her mother's children. I could be wrong, though.

Preteen kids are so hard to age because they change so fast. If you visit a 6th or 7th grade classroom, half of them will look way too young be there, and half of them will look way too old to be there. I agree that she looks about 10 or 11, but I wouldn't be too surprised if she were 13 and a late bloomer. It's really hard to tell around that age, but I would guess on the lower end for this one. But in fundieland, I think even a 10 year-old is old enough to take on all the work. Wasn't Jinger Duggar doing all the laundry by the time she was 10?

[SamuraiKatz]

Is Bria a half sibling to the younger group? Why is there such a huge gap between Bria and the second oldest child?

Kelly not a rabid fundie by birth?

[acheronbeach]

Is Bria a half sibling to the younger group? Why is there such a huge gap between Bria and the second oldest child?

Kelly not a rabid fundie by birth?

Nope. Kelly was raised by a Christian family and from the way she describes her high school/young lady years, she was quite whorish (though for all we know, it could have been fairly innocent to most people). She got knocked up and had Bria a few years before marrying that creeper husband of hers.

I don't care at all if Bria Crawford gets married - she's one fundie who just isn't interesting at all. In her writing, she comes across as incredibly dim.

[demgirl]

I would think there would be a lot of interest in Bria from the fundie boys -- she's pretty and comes from a family that is, if not fundie royalty, at least part of the landed gentry.

[acheronbeach]

You want to see the level of intellect potential suitors would be getting? Read her latest article for Visionary Womanhood:

http://www.visionarywomanhood.com/imagi ... at-part-3/

You could have a better conversation with a flowerpot.

[brashchick]

Is it me or does meth brow's husband look kind of thuggish ?

[keeperrox]

Is Bria not Kelly's husband's daughter, then? Or, she is, but they had her before they married?

[Guest Anonymous]

Is Bria not Kelly's husband's daughter, then? Or, she is, but they had her before they married?

Bria does not belong to Mr. Meth Brows. She's a cuckoo in the Crawford family nest, conceived when Kelly was in her unreformed whore phase.

[keeperrox]

Bria does not belong to Mr. Meth Brows. She's a cuckoo in the Crawford family nest, conceived when Kelly was in her unreformed whore phase.

Gotcha. Did Mr. MB adopt her or is she not a Crawford?

[Wolfie]

Gotcha. Did Mr. MB adopt her or is she not a Crawford?

Kelly has basically said that Bria's father is not in the picture. She has never stated that Bria was adopted.

[MamaJunebug]

You want to see the level of intellect potential suitors would be getting? Read her latest article for Visionary Womanhood:

http://www.visionarywomanhood.com/imagi ... at-part-3/

You could have a better conversation with a flowerpot.

I don't get the impression that potential suitors are all that concerned about intellectual conversation with their eventual mates. Carnal conversation, yes ma'am! But not the other.

;)

[demgirl]

I think in the VF circles, flowerpot wives are actually sought after.

[Effie]

Yes, she is a Crawford. She calls her stepdad for dad. She doesn't know her bio-dad. Kelly has said so herself, that they don't have any contact.

Her name is Bria Savana Crawford. She is 17 years old (someone here asked). I think she will be married quite soon. After all, Kelly has said they both hope to get pregnant at the same time. She even suggested that Bria would get her first child in her earliest 20s. So yeah, Bria better get married soon and become a baby-making machine. Btw. has anyone else reacted on who held the new-born baby down in the basement during the tornado? Bria wrote that she held her baby-brother. I think that is quite telling actually.

Btw. Kelly has 3 siblings, if anyone would want to know. They seem quite religious as well. Her brother has been a missionary. Chris Liverett (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=711122754). Her sisters: Cheryl Voss /http://www.facebook.com/cheryl.voss?ref=ffl) and Shelia McBrayer (http://www.facebook.com/shelia.jeffers?ref=ffl). Her mother Phyllis Liverett: (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 30&ref=ffa)

The Liverett-family: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid= ... =1&theater

Wow, many small children.

Kelly's profile with photos (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= ... 48&ref=ffl).

[gustava]

"The Canterbury Tales" is on Bria's list of must-reads. Obviously, she hasn't read it. Think "Wife of Bath."