No Longer Quivering
There’s one thing you can count on when you read Lori Alexander of The Transformed Wife’s blog, that she’ll rationalize what she’s doing. You know that at some point during the week she’ll make a poorly-thought out response to why her “ministry” must exist. This time she’s claiming it’s because women do not know that marriage and raising children is an option, it’s all nasty careers and education. Women need to be told to marry, the gospel according to Lori.
Don’t know why Lori feels the need to keep stating again and again ad infinitum why she’s doing what she’s doing. Perhaps she’s insecure in herself and what she’s doing? Could it be that the pushback she receives is enough that she has an internal need to keep repeating herself?
This claim is based upon a tale told by Dennis Prager on his radio show. It sounds very much like a Debi and Michael Pearl letter, ficticious in its entirety, existing only to prop up whatever strawman the author is currectly beating up. I am surprised that Prager would be anti-education like Lori, so I’m thinking this is wishful thinking on the part of Ms. Alexander.
Really? We’re surrounded day in and day out with the expectations of a society that still shows in media and by their actions that marriage and children are the path most women take. It’s no big secret and it’s not hidden information no matter what you and Prager might claim.
I’m sure some nosy buttinski relative or three cornered her at family holidays and demanded to know why she wasn’t married. She’s likely to have been surrounded by women who dipped in and out of the job market to marry and have children. We’re not talking about a big secret.
Lori goes on to complain that churches are not teaching that you must marry from the pulpit. She thinks that needs to be the thrust of teaching. I guess, I don’t know, that most pastors realize that most people will marry and they don’t need to ham-fistedly enforce this from the pulpit.
Now Lori is just adding words to Prager’s mouth about not getting an education or traveling. I find it very unlikely that someone involved in something called ‘PragerU’ would denounce education.
The reality is that most women, and men, just are not emotionally mature enough for marriage at the age when you go off to college. It seems that going off to college to gain knowledge and maturity before making the life long commitment of marriage is the smart thing to do. Even if you decide to be a stay at home wife and mother at least you’re better equiped with an education.
One of the telling points in Lori’s narrative is her advice to get married. She, like C.R. Wiley a few days ago, orders you to go where the boys are. Put yourself out there. Thankfully she does not also insist you drop your hanky! It’s all Annette Funicello-like “Where the Boys Are”
Lori Alexander, making a career out of her agoraphobia while telling others not to have a career and to huddle at home paranoid of everything. What a miserable way to live!
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