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by Debi Pearl of No Greater Joy – Do You Want to Get Married?
Editor’s note: Judgmental girls don’t get married? This is news to me. Debi Pearl calling out other people for being judgmental and dismissive of others is so rich! What must it be like to have such incredibly strong cognitive dissonance that you cannot recognize that you do the exact same things you are accusing others of? Debi, meet the plank in your eye.
All men come into marriage dumb and immature, at least that is the assessment of most females. We girls value female strengths that men don’t develop until they have been married to a patient woman for a period of time. To us judgmental women, men seem to be carnal, selfish, and insensitive. We are appalled at how fleshly a man can be and how much time he can waste on worthless pursuits, sports, or hobbies. This judgmental attitude seems to be ingrained in females, and for the most part we see it as being a righteous trait. God help me to help you see how damning this attitude really is to both finding a husband and having a loving marriage.
Debi is speaking about homeschooled girls in the original homeschool ‘Law Makers’ movement.
Many young girls became masters at detecting faults and mixed motives—a skill valuable to an older person, but a serious problem to a young lady. Once this spiritual astuteness becomes the standard by which a girl measures others, especially the men who would approach her, it is very difficult for her to see it as ugly. It is difficult to put a finger on it and say guilty, but when it is present in anyone, especially in a young lady, it leaves those touched by it feeling icky. This is why as the Law Makers movement began to fade, it left in its wake an army of unmarried young women.
Sorry to be the bearer of nasty news, but it is time to have babies, and we must get the show on the road! With each passing year, the pool of available young men grows exponentially smaller.
QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.
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