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by Tim Bayly of Bayly Blog – What a Little Girl Does With a Reconnaissance-by-Artillery Weaponized Water Balloon Launcher
Editor’s note: I would hate to be a little girl in Tim Bayly’s straight-laced strictly-gendered world. No fun, just Barbies and making everything pretty. Water balloon fights are some of the most fun you can have in the summer as a kid. You get to expend energy in creaming people like your brother and you end up soaking wet on a hot summer day in the process. Add ‘Killjoy’ to being sensitive about his sexuality and easily offended to Bayly’s list of weird. So many things in this world are neither gendered or sexual.
Well, all that to say that my children’s missionary Grandmother had the same idea and actually bought the thing. But having spent much of her life in the Congo where death, mayhem, and poison-tipped pygmy blowgun darts are as much a part of life as…
earth, wind, and fire, she didn’t give the reconnaissance-by-artillery weaponized water balloon launchers to her eldest grandson, but his older sister. Her one concession to girlhood was to give her the pink one.
Her precious granddaughter outwitted her devious grandmother’s efforts to subvert sugar and spice and all things nice. No butch warriorism for her, thank you very much!
Dear sweet Aubrielle knew precisely what to do with the whole shebang—especially the accompanying ammunition. She carried the front porch wicker table down the steps and fifteen yards over to the scrub saplings where, with a little help from flowers and a vase and assorted other accoutrements (including three hundred-gallon trash cans and a dilapidated mailbox), she turned her mortar shells into Christmas tree balls daintily hung as background to her own shrine to all that is beautiful and lovely; to all that gives joy to a vacationing seven year old girrrrll.
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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