No Longer Quivering
by Lori Alexander from The Transformed Wife – Everything is His Fault
Editor’s note: Now Lori is upset that movies on the ‘Christian’ Hallmark Channel don’t push her gender roles agenda. First, Hallmark Channel isn’t implicitly Christian any more than Lifetime is. They market themselves and their movie fare as traditional. Second, Hallmark and Lifetime tend to make movies following a formula that appeals to a certain class of women, not reality, not men, but their core audience. My question is what is a good QF female enforcer doing laying around in sweatpants watching a movie in the middle of the day? She states in the beginning of this that she was sick, but even in illness this is behavior that is frowned upon as ‘lazy’ in the CPM. Aren’t there clothes to mend or Bible to be read? Blog posts telling women that yoga pants are evil? Something more productive to do?
What do you think about this idea that all culture must conform to CPM/QF theology? Why does it never occur to the cultural enforcers that the easily way to deal with this is to start their own movement and channel with the movies they want.
I watch Hallmark movies. In every single movie, the woman is mad at the man for a time. I can’t recall when the couple separated because the man was mad at the woman. What’s up with this? I was the same way for the first many years of my marriage. Everything was Ken’s fault. I would get upset, and I would pout until he came and told me he was sorry. It’s SO ugly! He would try as hard as he could to not push my buttons but there were so many of them that he felt at a loss what to do, so he would come and say he was sorry, just like the older man told the younger man to do.
~~~snipped a long bunch of advice from an older woman telling the wives to suck it up and stop blaming their men written by Lori~~~
As you can imagine, I was thrilled and had to stop it frequently to get all of these wise words from this older, godly woman down on paper so I could share with you. NOT. Nope, there was no godly, older woman who showed up and said all these things to these women. The men were wrong and the women were right and once the men figured this out, they lived happily ever after. Blech. I cannot believe how almost all movies make the men wrong and the women right. Probably because they have female writers writing these things or if men are writing them, it’s been their experience.
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.
Read more by Lori Alexander:
Stay in touch! Like No Longer Quivering on Facebook:
If this is your first time visiting NLQ please read our Welcome page and our Comment Policy!
Copyright notice: If you use any content from NLQ, including any of our research or Quoting Quiverfull quotes, please give us credit and a link back to this site. All original content is owned by No Longer Quivering and Patheos.com
Read our hate mail at Jerks 4 Jesus
Contact NLQ at SuzanneNLQ@gmail.com
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In