Lori Alexander 79: False Female Bible Teachers Elevate Jesus’ Words over the Apostle Paul’s

[Pammy]

Today Lori uses assorted prooftexts (mostly from proverbs) to belittle and insult people who aren't married.

While it's true that a good marriage can be a very good thing for some people, (and the Bible does back that idea) it's not true that people were "created to be married" -- that's ridiculous. If anything the letters of the new testament tend to be a bit down on marriage from time to time!

Lori does address Paul's promotion of singleness, but it doesn't make any sense. In Lori's opinion Paul is only promoting singleness for people completely void of all sexual desire. Everybody else should marry because, somehow, she thinks that Paul is worried about pornography?

On the other hand, Lori doesn't think all marriage is good. Men should not choose 'feminists' for wives. (Advising men now, Lori? I thought women didn't do that?) Why not feminists? Because feminist women believe in equality, freedom, and dignity -- and Lori's God is opposed to all of those things. Instead men should look forward to marrying fictional women who think that love, respect, and humility mean that men matter more than women. These fictional women value obedience (nowhere in the Bible) and focus only on pleasing men. Ewwwwww!

So men should get married, but they also shouldn't, because only imaginary women will do. Sounds great Lori!

Lori finally begins to talk about young women, in particular the ones who are 'longing to marry' -- Who does that? I mean, people do fall in love and sometimes 'long' to marry the person they are in love with... but does anybody just 'long to marry' generically? Like, with anybody? It doesn't matter who, as long as they get a ring? I don't think those people exist.

Anybody dreaming of marriage for the reason Lori gives: because they are alone, and that's not something they think is a good thing... those people are going to be in the messiest marriages on the planet. You can't just start a life with someone because you are lonely!

Lori's advice? Young women should tread water in life: going faithfully to a male-centred church, offering to help people, and learning to do chores as if they are 'arts'. That's all you need to be prepared to fall into the lap of the first superficially spiritual man who crosses your path. Don't bother trying to make anything of yourself. Any bigger ideas are surely temptations from the devil. Maybe this kind of idleness and self-restriction might be hard on you, but it's for the best. Sacrifices are necessary to be the kind of woman Lori approves of. You might as well start now.

[Fallgirl30]

I saw a post on Reddit of Lori defending her hard on for patriarchy, it was pasted she ofc didn’t post there.  We know her oldest daughter chose not to go to college in favor of becoming a professional ballerina.  The boys went.  The youngest girl, she went as well, right?  She went to a private school then they made her move home bc it was less expensive and she wanted to be a wife and a mom (or they said that’s what she would end up doing).  Did she finish with a degree?  At this point IDK if Lori would  say absolutely no college for her girls like she does for all other women.  She talks a good game but they have affluent friends because they are affluent themselves and I don’t think for a minute her girls wouldn’t be able to pursue what they wanted, it would really be looked down upon in their circles to have girls who didn’t go to college.  Just my .02.

[feministxtian]

6 hours ago, Pammy said:

On the other hand, Lori doesn't think all marriage is good. Men should not choose 'feminists' for wives. (Advising men now, Lori? I thought women didn't do that?) Why not feminists? Because feminist women believe in equality, freedom, and dignity -- and Lori's God is opposed to all of those things. Instead men should look forward to marrying fictional women who think that love, respect, and humility mean that men matter more than women. These fictional women value obedience (nowhere in the Bible) and focus only on pleasing men. Ewwwwww!

That would not work for me. I was an independent, pain in the ass, hard-headed bitch in 1997 when I met my husband. Somehow he thought that was attractive as hell. Then again, he was also a feminist. We saw eye to eye in that arena. As you all know, he was the love of my life. I respected the fuck out of him, because he was a person, he was my husband and in my eyes, he was an incredible, heroic human being. I WANTED to please him, because I loved him. He did the same with me. Now, I'm single. I won't exactly say I'm happy to be single, that wasn't in my future plans, but I'm content. 

Lori should shut the fuck up with her bullshit. She couldn't handle ONE DAY of my life. Chores, school work, going to class, church stuff, the critters, the grands. Yeah, my ass is here trying to finish my Math homework. I cleaned the bathroom, changed the cat litter, cleaned the kitchen, loaded/unloaded/reloaded the dishwasher, cleaned my office (picked up the mess the felines made), cleaned my living room, spent 2 hours in English class (remote), took a nice, long, HOT shower. Tomorrow looks to be just about as busy. 9am Math class, more fucking homework, church group in the evening. Somewhere in there I have to get a tire fixed, get my meds refilled, make a quick grocery run, maybe treat myself w/Starbucks, I have a gift card. And yes, I do deal with chronic pain too. 

[HoneyBunny]

12 hours ago, feministxtian said:

And yes, I do deal with chronic pain too. 

Seriously?  Don’t you know LazyLori has THE most chronically painful life of ANYONE?
 

Or is it that she makes others’ lives so chronically painful?  I forget sometimes. 

[feministxtian]

14 minutes ago, HoneyBunny said:

Seriously?  Don’t you know LazyLori has THE most chronically painful life of ANYONE?
 

Or is it that she makes others’ lives so chronically painful?  I forget sometimes. 

I know, it can't be that bad, I can actually do things even when I'm hurting. 

[Alisamer]

14 hours ago, Fallgirl30 said:

I saw a post on Reddit of Lori defending her hard on for patriarchy, it was pasted she ofc didn’t post there.  We know her oldest daughter chose not to go to college in favor of becoming a professional ballerina.  The boys went.  The youngest girl, she went as well, right?  She went to a private school then they made her move home bc it was less expensive and she wanted to be a wife and a mom (or they said that’s what she would end up doing).  Did she finish with a degree?  At this point IDK if Lori would  say absolutely no college for her girls like she does for all other women.  She talks a good game but they have affluent friends because they are affluent themselves and I don’t think for a minute her girls wouldn’t be able to pursue what they wanted, it would really be looked down upon in their circles to have girls who didn’t go to college.  Just my .02.

Lori herself went to college. Alyssa became a dancer - that's the kind of job that most people don't go to college for especially the women. They do as much or more training as college, of course, but it's the sort of job where traditional college age is really when you need to be working as much as possible to build a name because the profession is naturally limited in duration. I think basically ALL Lori's kids had their equivalent of a college education - either actually college or in Alyssa's case intensive dance. 

That's the thing about Lori. She wants other women to do what she SAYS. No questions. 

BUT - Lori, and her family, didn't and don't do the things Lori wants other women to do. I don't think Lori has many real friends, for a variety of reasons just one of them being that she is an unpleasant bitchy judgemental shrew. I think Lori is that odd lady with no self-awareness who judges others for "drinking" while sipping on a glass of wine herself, proclaims that young women shouldn't go to college (while speaking to a college professor, probably, and while everyone around her knows both she and her daughters continued their education). She'd lecture a female doctor about how women shouldn't work, while requesting treatment from that female doctor. She lectures women about homemaking while she has someone doing her housekeeping for her. She is anti-vacation for other women, but goes on a months long vacation every single year herself.

I doubt anyone in her real life takes her very seriously at all. She is a liar. An obvious oblivious blatant constant liar, and I think people who know her know that. They might patronize her in person, but none of them listen to a word she says, other than maybe her children.

[feministxtian]

Lori and Ken are both hypocritical assholes. I chose to torture myself the other day and went back to when Ken chose to grace us with his presence and "set us straight". These people lie as naturally as breathing. 

Hell, I could give better "biblical" advice. 

[Red Hair, Black Dress]

I wasn't here when Ken graced us with his presence.to set us jezebels straight. Although I've read some of his more recent walls o' text, I haven't tortured myself with his original visit. Would a kind FJ-er point me to it?  Thanks.

[Pammy]

Whoo-hoo! Today Lori starts out by quoting Jordan Peterson who, apparently, thinks that many 19-year-old "girls" -- that he has "talked to" believe that their career is going to be the most important thing in their life. 

Asking teenagers that question is really disingenuous. For one thing, what's a "thing"? Are people "things"? Because most 19yos know that the most important thing to them is always likely to be people... but, whatever. Also, what's "important" -- like, emotionally important? In terms of personal values? Or practically important? Like, earning a living is how I plan on not dying of starvation, and that's pretty important? Seriously, Jordan Peterson is an ass.

It's true that very few 30-year-old people believe their careers are 'the most important thing' because they have grown up and gotten a better grasp on how they actually flourish best in a balanced life including plenty of loving relationships -- but hopefully no shortage of food and shelter. (Only people who are not falling short of a living wage have the luxury of considering their career unimportant.)

Lori, however, resents that kids (specifically girls) are asked about their future career ideas and (gasp!) educated in order that they might be employable. Lori thinks a paycheck is an 'idol' for girls, who should be taught instead to live by dependency on men for their basic needs.

For Lori, there are only two options in a young woman's life. If you choose education and a job, you'll live and die alone. The only way to get a man is to avoid gaining or using career skills at all costs. That makes no sense. It's not impossible to date while working! It's not even hard! It can be hard to have a family while working (depending on work-life-childcare issues) but it's not the end of the world. How can Lori miss that the majority of young couples and/or families enjoy each other's company in a home as well as both contributing to the finances of that home?

But Lori's imaginary workin' woman with her empty apartment and her lonely life at home all evening by herself... is also probably sleeping around? Going to parties with drugs and alcohol? Well, wouldn't that make her less lonely? And also abortions. Because that's what Lori thinks sex leads to. Dead babies. And also depression and suicide. Lori thinks all these things are caused by selfishness. Because Lori doesn't have a clue about mental health.

You see, to Lori, it's selfish to live your own life as a woman (even if you manage to avoid the sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, abortion, and suicide) because Lori's god didn't design you to be a whole person. You're whole enough to 'live in rebellion' quite successfully, but that's not what's allegedly intended for you. You're an assistant. You exist for your husband's sake and not your own. If there wasn't a man out there to need you, Lori's god wouldn't have bothered creating you. 

You are for pregnancy, childcare, and doing chores. Nobody who lives that life is going to be lonely like a woman with a job (and coworkers and friends and parties) is going to be lonely!

Lori thinks that it takes a 'grand deception' to convince girls and women that they are regular humans with the full capacity and dignity that is inherent to any person. She thinks they need to be bribed with a paycheck to take the bait. Plus, Lori asserts that there is no such thing as a satisfied or fulfilled woman with a job. Everybody but Lori is just lying about that. Lori's god is just too petty to allow happiness for anyone who isn't doing things Lori's way.

Lori thinks all this feminism and the desire to work for a living is new. She would rather be preaching to her grandmother: the last of the oppressed generations, the ones who rose up and invented feminism and fought for the ordinary logical view that men and women are created equal. (Of Lori's grandmothers, I wonder how many of them worked hard long hours -- either at home or as wage earners? Because there have certainly been working women in every generation.)

And the proof text, today, a doozy. Jesus offers himself to humanity as the way to eternal life and urges them to take his offer even if they are in the minority. Lori thinks this means Jesus hates feminism. (I've never met a Bible teacher that clearly hates the Bible this much!)

[Cat Damon]

On 9/15/2021 at 1:29 PM, Loveday said:

Yeah, I do a lot of heavy lifting for Mom--out of the car, out of her chair, and sometimes off the floor when she slides from her chair. That last is never done without my husband doing most of the lifting; if he's not home, I have to call 911. But it's all starting to take its toll. I do NOT want her in a nursing home, though, especially now that she has cancer. 

I'm sure other people have told you this, but don't forget to take care of yourself, both physically and mentally. I used to work in an adult day center, and it was very hard work. What made it worth it was seeing our guest's families' faces of relief at being able to either go to work, go to lunch with a friend, or just know that the podiatrist or hair stylist was coming to the center and it was one less thing to worry about. It also really helped with the isolation that our older family members can experience, while still being able to go home and sleep in their own beds at night.

If you want, feel free to message me (even though we're not likely in the same area) and I'm happy to chat!

[louisa05]

The list of things a wife is supposed to do when her husband comes home is basically what my aunt always did when hers got home. I witnessed it several times in my life. 

Here's the problem, though: her husband is a raging alcoholic and she has spent 50+ years enabling him. She had to do those things because he flew into a rage at her and the kids if she didn't. It was all part of enabling an irrational, dysfunctional alcoholic. Yet Lori would have looked at it and saw an ideal marriage and family. So sickening. 

Edited September 22, 2021 by louisa05
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[Red Hair, Black Dress]

Soooooo...... who is Dr. Jordan Peterson and why on earth should we pay attention to anything he says?

Also  - if he really is stalking talking to all those 19-year old girls I find that super creepy. 

[Loveday]

18 hours ago, Cat Damon said:

I'm sure other people have told you this, but don't forget to take care of yourself, both physically and mentally. I used to work in an adult day center, and it was very hard work. What made it worth it was seeing our guest's families' faces of relief at being able to either go to work, go to lunch with a friend, or just know that the podiatrist or hair stylist was coming to the center and it was one less thing to worry about. It also really helped with the isolation that our older family members can experience, while still being able to go home and sleep in their own beds at night.

If you want, feel free to message me (even though we're not likely in the same area) and I'm happy to chat!

Thank you! I may take you up on that some time! ❤️ I am trying to give myself a break whenever I can, and thankfully Mom rests a lot in the afternoons so I do have an hour or two to relax with a good book most days. It's the constant  being on call that takes its toll, though, I find. Even if the day is going smoothly and she's watching her cooking shows in her room while I'm busy elsewhere in the house, there's always the slight tension in the back of my mind--did she just call me? Is she going to have a bathroom accident? Will I find her on the floor next time I open her bedroom door? And it's hard getting a good night's sleep when I'm on the alert for her calling out that she's fallen out of bed. She did that once and we didn't hear her til morning and we were up and in the kitchen (the master suite, where she lives, is oddly next to the kitchen rather than at the other end of the house where the other two bedrooms are). She'd been on the floor for several hours.  We've sorted that problem now (her door and ours stay partly open at night, and she has several very loud referee whistles around her room and bathroom). But it's a case of always being on guard, even in our sleep, you know? 

I know it can be a lot worse, I'm a member of a group on FB about caring for older parents and some of the stories just make me so grateful I'm not in their situations. I mean--thank God she doesn't have Alzheimer's! Although I could deal with it if I had to, my husband's mother had it and I spent a lot of time with her during her last couple of years. It's just a matter of taking each day as it comes, knowing it's going to get worse but knowing also that by the time it DOES get to that point I will have had lots more experience than I have now and I'll just deal with things as I do now, just staying present in each moment and trying not to worry about what's to come. 

Virtual hugs to all of us caring for an older parent or relative.   

[Militant Fecundity]

19 hours ago, Pammy said:

Whoo-hoo! Today Lori starts out by quoting Jordan Peterson who, apparently, thinks that many 19-year-old "girls" -- that he has "talked to" believe that their career is going to be the most important thing in their life. 

Asking teenagers that question is really disingenuous. For one thing, what's a "thing"? Are people "things"? Because most 19yos know that the most important thing to them is always likely to be people... but, whatever. Also, what's "important" -- like, emotionally important? In terms of personal values? Or practically important? Like, earning a living is how I plan on not dying of starvation, and that's pretty important? Seriously, Jordan Peterson is an ass.

It's true that very few 30-year-old people believe their careers are 'the most important thing' because they have grown up and gotten a better grasp on how they actually flourish best in a balanced life including plenty of loving relationships -- but hopefully no shortage of food and shelter. (Only people who are not falling short of a living wage have the luxury of considering their career unimportant.)

Lori, however, resents that kids (specifically girls) are asked about their future career ideas and (gasp!) educated in order that they might be employable. Lori thinks a paycheck is an 'idol' for girls, who should be taught instead to live by dependency on men for their basic needs.

For Lori, there are only two options in a young woman's life. If you choose education and a job, you'll live and die alone. The only way to get a man is to avoid gaining or using career skills at all costs. That makes no sense. It's not impossible to date while working! It's not even hard! It can be hard to have a family while working (depending on work-life-childcare issues) but it's not the end of the world. How can Lori miss that the majority of young couples and/or families enjoy each other's company in a home as well as both contributing to the finances of that home?

But Lori's imaginary workin' woman with her empty apartment and her lonely life at home all evening by herself... is also probably sleeping around? Going to parties with drugs and alcohol? Well, wouldn't that make her less lonely? And also abortions. Because that's what Lori thinks sex leads to. Dead babies. And also depression and suicide. Lori thinks all these things are caused by selfishness. Because Lori doesn't have a clue about mental health.

You see, to Lori, it's selfish to live your own life as a woman (even if you manage to avoid the sex, drugs, rock'n'roll, abortion, and suicide) because Lori's god didn't design you to be a whole person. You're whole enough to 'live in rebellion' quite successfully, but that's not what's allegedly intended for you. You're an assistant. You exist for your husband's sake and not your own. If there wasn't a man out there to need you, Lori's god wouldn't have bothered creating you. 

You are for pregnancy, childcare, and doing chores. Nobody who lives that life is going to be lonely like a woman with a job (and coworkers and friends and parties) is going to be lonely!

Lori thinks that it takes a 'grand deception' to convince girls and women that they are regular humans with the full capacity and dignity that is inherent to any person. She thinks they need to be bribed with a paycheck to take the bait. Plus, Lori asserts that there is no such thing as a satisfied or fulfilled woman with a job. Everybody but Lori is just lying about that. Lori's god is just too petty to allow happiness for anyone who isn't doing things Lori's way.

Lori thinks all this feminism and the desire to work for a living is new. She would rather be preaching to her grandmother: the last of the oppressed generations, the ones who rose up and invented feminism and fought for the ordinary logical view that men and women are created equal. (Of Lori's grandmothers, I wonder how many of them worked hard long hours -- either at home or as wage earners? Because there have certainly been working women in every generation.)

And the proof text, today, a doozy. Jesus offers himself to humanity as the way to eternal life and urges them to take his offer even if they are in the minority. Lori thinks this means Jesus hates feminism. (I've never met a Bible teacher that clearly hates the Bible this much!)

My grandmother carried a lot of "working mom guilt", which eventually manifested in castigating working mothers in general. It was sad because she blamed her working for everything that was ever wrong with her children, particularly the one who never could seem to grow up and get his act together. While said man-child was all too happy to blame her working for all of his problems, too... my grandmother never really listened to what it was that her children were quietly resentful of: it had nothing to do with the fact that she worked (they all understood it was a necessity), it was because they weren't often her top priority outside of working hours. 

[Sarcastically spinster]

On 9/20/2021 at 3:18 PM, Pammy said:

Lori finally begins to talk about young women, in particular the ones who are 'longing to marry' -- Who does that? I mean, people do fall in love and sometimes 'long' to marry the person they are in love with... but does anybody just 'long to marry' generically? Like, with anybody? It doesn't matter who, as long as they get a ring? I don't think those people exist.

 

Oh, they absolutely exist.  I experience it from men showing up in my messages with a checklist.  They're looking for any female who matches their checklist of traits that they want in a spouse.  They ask one question, you respond, and they don't engage with your answer at all - just go to the next question (if you passed).  As soon as you fail a checklist, they disappear on the next warm body.

Women do it too, I'm just not the one getting it from them.  It's definitely a thing.  Especially in a culture where so many girls have been told that their identity is wrapped up in their relationship to the men around them.  That "a woman's highest calling is to be a wife and a mother".  Etc.  When your very personhood and your social status are linked to whether or not you're married and a single woman is bottom of the totem pole in every single way, then yes, you do just want anybody who will put a ring on your finger.  

[Pammy]

1 hour ago, Red Hair, Black Dress said:

Soooooo...... who is Dr. Jordan Peterson and why on earth should we pay attention to anything he says?

Also  - if he really is stalking talking to all those 19-year old girls I find that super creepy. 

Peterson is a Canadian psychology professor and darling pseudo-intellectual of right-wing nutjobs everywhere. He has books, youtube and social media presence that propagate his ideas. (His ideas are a fairly compelling and charismatic blend of common sense, personal redneck bias, and 'unpopular opinions' dressed up in pop psychology until they sound like obvious truth.)

I assume his 'talking' with 19yo women consists of asking his freshman classes to raise their hands if they agree with his intentionally ambiguous statement, then glancing around to confirm what he expected to see. I doubt he's actually having conversations. He's just being a windbag at the front of a lecture hall.

[feministxtian]

20 hours ago, Pammy said:

For Lori, there are only two options in a young woman's life. If you choose education and a job, you'll live and die alone. The only way to get a man is to avoid gaining or using career skills at all costs. That makes no sense. It's not impossible to date while working! It's not even hard! It can be hard to have a family while working (depending on work-life-childcare issues) but it's not the end of the world. How can Lori miss that the majority of young couples and/or families enjoy each other's company in a home as well as both contributing to the finances of that home?

But Lori's imaginary workin' woman with her empty apartment and her lonely life at home all evening by herself... is also probably sleeping around? Going to parties with drugs and alcohol? Well, wouldn't that make her less lonely? And also abortions. Because that's what Lori thinks sex leads to. Dead babies. And also depression and suicide. Lori thinks all these things are caused by selfishness. Because Lori doesn't have a clue about mental health.

I've been both married (w/kids), working full time, going to school full time, back to working full time w/o school. Now I'm single and have a very full life. "Empty apartment"...how empty can it be with 3 4-legged creatures that live here, a granddog that visits regularly, a granddaughter who storms in and out depending on which parent pissed her off??? 

I LOVE being busy and using my time reasonably productively. I did work full time and have a kid in competitive gymnastics. Talk about a time suck! My depression has NOTHING to do with anything other than a bunch of stressful life events and a brain that ran out of all those feel-good chemicals...so I take these things called pills that put it all back. Then there's the fucked up wiring that contributes to the things I was born with like ADHD and ASD. 

Sex? Nope. I've discovered that I tend to lean more towards asexual. And, in my single life, abortion isn't even on my list of shit to worry about...I got fixed at 27.

[Red Hair, Black Dress]

When I was 19 (a feminist in college) I never once thought about getting married. Seriously not once. Marriage was a prison that would keep me from having my own life being free and doing what I wanted.

Did I think about having a hot boyfriend who would lavish attention on me, take me out to fun places, treat me with respect, value my intelligence and opinions, and never once tell me what to do?  Oh absolutely.

My college boyfriend, who I had believed was at least most of the above list, decided to propose before graduation. We had never ever talked marriage. I told him I had been accepted to grad school for the Fall, and we could still see each other as he was only moving for a job one state away.

He said no, he wouldn't "let" me go to grad school.  He wanted to get married.  I repeated we could still see each other. He noped that and issued an ultimatum. I had to chose grad school or him.

TL;DR:   It wasn't him.

[feministxtian]

2 minutes ago, Red Hair, Black Dress said:

He said no, he wouldn't "let" me go to grad school.  He wanted to get married.  I repeated we could still see each other. He noped that and issued an ultimatum. I had to chose grad school or him.

that was an easy choice. "Let"?????? fuck that noise and him, with a cactus. 

[Red Hair, Black Dress]

Absolutely. The nano second "let" left his mouth I knew he was history.

[SongRed7]

🚎 Speculation bus...but I wonder if Lori is really sick?   The housekeeper, no recent updates on health after her recent treatments (she has done them in the past), mentioning high fever and headaches......

And today in her IG stories several slides (more than usual) referencing death/not our home/God our comforter, etc..  She did post a new video yesterday about "not having to love the man you marry" but she didn't seem any more or less different than usual. 

Hmm?   I don't want to read too much into it...but hmm? 

[Loveday]

59 minutes ago, SongRed7 said:

🚎 Speculation bus...but I wonder if Lori is really sick?   The housekeeper, no recent updates on health after her recent treatments (she has done them in the past), mentioning high fever and headaches......

And today in her IG stories several slides (more than usual) referencing death/not our home/God our comforter, etc..  She did post a new video yesterday about "not having to love the man you marry" but she didn't seem any more or less different than usual. 

Hmm?   I don't want to read too much into it...but hmm? 

Yeah, it's hard not to think that something is going on, isn't it? 

[Alisamer]

4 hours ago, Sarcastically spinster said:

Oh, they absolutely exist.  I experience it from men showing up in my messages with a checklist.  They're looking for any female who matches their checklist of traits that they want in a spouse.  They ask one question, you respond, and they don't engage with your answer at all - just go to the next question (if you passed).  As soon as you fail a checklist, they disappear on the next warm body.

Women do it too, I'm just not the one getting it from them.  It's definitely a thing. 

It's a LORI thing. She comes right out and says she didn't marry Ken because she loved him. He checked off the necessary boxes on her list and asked her, so she said yes. She didn't want a loving husband, she wanted an ATM and an excuse not to work. Ken was the ATM, the kids were the excuse not to work, and her "illness" was the excuse to have a housekeeper and nanny so she didn't have to do any work at home, either. 

Lori talks about not having to love the person you marry and having to "learn" to love your kids because she doesn't know what love is. I've said before we are lucky she's a "submissive" "christian" woman and also lazy, because if she was a man with energy to burn she'd be a danger to society. (More so than she already is, anyway.)

[Sarah92]

It’s not surprising that 19 year olds are thinking of their careers. It’s a practical thing to do. At 19 I was kicked off my parents Medicaid (I think it’s different now)  and lived in a small town that only hired people they knew no matter how terrible that person would be for the job. As my family hadn’t lived there very long that meant few well paying opportunities. My family struggled with money so I couldn’t waste time finding a man to marry. I went to college and then grad school so I could have my own income. All the kids being out of the house definitely helped my parents have more money to pay bills. 
 

Teens are smart enough to know that the world isn’t a walk in the park so they have to plan ahead. 
 

Jordan Peterson is a sham, psychologist my ass, I watched a video where he “destroyed” feminism. It was mostly him talking over the woman who was explaining feminism while making jumps in logic. 

[louisa05]

Today, Lori explains that “no couple is compatible”.  I didn’t read the blog because I didn’t want to ruin my lunch. But good lord. Just cause she can’t get along with anyone doesn’t mean the rest of us are like that.