“We then felt like failures for graduating without a spouse, legally able to drink, and still discouraged from having sex.” I felt this. I grew up Mormon and the culture around Women, what we can and can’t do. The pressure to cover up and be modest and to feel like I should be ashamed of my body instead of embracing the beauty of being a woman.
Oofff. I feel this, Kay. While I went to an “egalitarian oriented” christian university, there was still this pervasive patriarchy that blamed and shamed women. I am thankful for you sharing with openness and vulnerability. Your courage is an inspiration.
I would say it is “goofy” if it wasn’t so damn harmful. It is sales/marketing 101 - literally telling people they have a problem and selling the solution, often at a premium cost of our humanity.
While religious trauma really sucks, healing is always possible. Thank you for sharing with vulnerability, for leaning into that notion that spirituality can be more. It can always be more.
“We then felt like failures for graduating without a spouse, legally able to drink, and still discouraged from having sex.” I felt this. I grew up Mormon and the culture around Women, what we can and can’t do. The pressure to cover up and be modest and to feel like I should be ashamed of my body instead of embracing the beauty of being a woman.
Oofff. I feel this, Kay. While I went to an “egalitarian oriented” christian university, there was still this pervasive patriarchy that blamed and shamed women. I am thankful for you sharing with openness and vulnerability. Your courage is an inspiration.
I would say it is “goofy” if it wasn’t so damn harmful. It is sales/marketing 101 - literally telling people they have a problem and selling the solution, often at a premium cost of our humanity.
While religious trauma really sucks, healing is always possible. Thank you for sharing with vulnerability, for leaning into that notion that spirituality can be more. It can always be more.