Awards
Lists of Brodie award winners:
X-Mormon of the Year 2012: David Twede
X-Mormon of the Year 2011: Joanna Brooks
X-Mormon of the Year 2010: Monica Bielanko
X-Mormon of the Year 2009: Walter Kirn
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Sunday in Outer Blogness: a woman’s worth edition!!!
On the even of the most dreaded holiday for women on the Mormon liturgical calendar, Elizabeth Smart made a statement explaining what’s wrong with object lessons teaching girls that after having sex, they’re used-up and disgusting, like chewed-gum, sparking lots of discussion (including about other unhelpful chastity lessons). But since it would be unimaginable for Mormons to drop object lessons altogether, some folks have come up with some more positive metaphors illustrating that your worth is Read more [...]
Posted in Motherhood, Sunday in Outer Blogness, Women
The Social Psychology of Mormon Heteropatriarchy
Sometimes my own life corresponds to the current news cycle. There’s been a spat of conversations regarding how GOP in Congress are slowing coming out in support of gay marriage because they have gay children themselves. But then Mormon congresspeople are holding out with the idea: “Of course I love my gay child, but I also don’t support gay marriage.” And then the media analyzes whether this is possible. I very much agree with the following stance on the matter (taken from the opinion Read more [...]
Posted in Homosexuality, Women
“Imagine a Church where your beloved grandmother is your stake president.”
Great interview by Joanna Brooks of Kate Kelly who launched ordainwomen.org. I REALLY hope momentum builds on this issue. On Tuesday, I ran into a female missionary on my campus. Since I just left a course on “feminist international political economy,” I couldn’t help but give her an earful. She was only 5 days into her mission, and looked rather homesick…age 19, chose to go on a mission before going to college, given that the Church recently lowered the age requirement for missionaries. Read more [...]
Posted in Women
Toxic Perfectionism
Evidently some mormon women suffer from toxic perfectionism. So on top of being the angel in the home, they are trying to be too perfect; keep a spotless home, cook a scrumptious, frugal, healthy meal, raise perfectly coiffed children. It’s not only mormon women who suffer from unrealistic expectations (of course) – Jerry Hall quipped: My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I’d hire the Read more [...]
Posted in Christians, Feminism, Women
Sunday in Outer Blogness: Ordination edition
chanson is on vacation this week, so I’m going to attempt Sunday in Outer Blogness. On the faithful side of outer blogness, things have been astir about female ordination. Not surprisingly, many faithful mormons disagree about this issue. Considering the last time feminists called for female ordination they were excommunicated, my hope is that this time will be different. Personally, I want to cheer the small victories, but it also seems a little like crumbs from the table… On the Read more [...]
Posted in LGBT, Sunday in Outer Blogness, Women
Earthly father, invisible mother, sort of like our Heavenly Parents?
There’s a new video on the YouTube Mormon Channel comparing earthly fatherhood to Heavenly Fatherhood, and I generally agree with the sentiments about the importance of fathers, but a few things really bother me. First, there’s the implication that fatherhood is primarily about providing materially. Second, the wife of the father featured in this video is barely portrayed at all. Yes, I know this video is about glorifying fatherhood, but as my brother commented, “I wonder when we can expect the Read more [...]
Posted in Family, Marriage, Mother in Heaven, Motherhood, Parenting, Women
Is sweetness next to Goddessliness?
The topic of wet dreams came up with a never-Mormon friend, and I told him, “You’ve just got to check out this ridiculous talk one of the Church leaders gave in the 1970s!” I found the link to Boyd Packer’s “Little Factory” talk and sent it to my friend. I’d read it several years ago, and decided to do so again for the chuckle. I remembered all the asinine counsel for young men not to tamper with their Little Factory’s release valve, but there was one paragraph I hadn’t remembered. After describing Read more [...]
Posted in Mother in Heaven, Sex and Gender, Women
A GAY PROCLAMATION TO THE WORLD FAMILY
The Proclamation of Robin Lee Johnson and his own life experience. I believe that all gay people are valid human beings who have the God given right to marry the person who they love and as long as they are monogamous and keep the law of chastity which they are doing by being married, they should have all of the 1,049 rights and privileges that comes with being married. This is the first and foremost belief I have. I have someone that I wish to marry right now and I do not think that I am sinning Read more [...]
Posted in Affirmation, Family, Homosexuality, LGBT, Marriage, Morality, Mormon Matters, Mormons, Motherhood, Parenting, Patriarchy, Proposition 8, Women, World
Valerie Hudson’s take on Taylor Petrey: A Misogynist in Sheep’s Clothing?
Today I read some articles by Valerie Hudson, a Mormon feminist and ex-BYU Poly Sci professor who’s written on interesting topics like the relationship of gender equality to state security. Here at MSP, we talked about her here. Back in 2009, she created some hubbub regarding the “real teleos” of marriage: its gender complementarity as an argument against same-sex marriage. She argued that the national anti-same-sex marriage campaign is failing because it’s lead by patriarchal men who focus on Read more [...]
Posted in Homosexuality, Women
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Mormon Moment Series on poetrysansonions.blogspot.com
Ahhhhh! The smell of fresh, juicy, slightly wrong Mormon blog posts. It must be Sunday! I have been doing a series of posts related to Mormon and Post-Mormon issues that seem to be *hot* this year. With more and more people interested in Mormons, and now the change in rules for when male and female missionaries are allowed to serve, the Bloggernacle keep heating up! So, if you missed the first posts in the series (because I was a slacker and wasn’t cross posting) here is your chance to catch up. Read more [...]