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See, here's my problem. People like her are why religious people get a bad rap. She claims to speak for all Christians, claims to know what's right for all Christians, etc. I have no problem with any one person's set of beliefs, but when they start this righteous generalizing, I start my righteous judging and write them off completely.
They were originally posted in 2005 or 2006 (Candy removed and then redesigned her entire site earlier in 2009), and I believe they may have inspired this fairly well-known parody.
That may be the central problem with modern life. The nice people are crazy. The people who arent crazy tend to be pompous asses. and everybody else is simply boring.
This whole collection of links represents a glimpse into a strange online community that I stumbled across a couple years ago while researching home economics (don't ask.)
It kinda reminds me of a post over at Hillbilly Housewife about making an apron as a sign of the woman being in charge of the household.
I feel like I should feel bad about this sort of thing, but then I remember the fact that I take a sense of pride in my household being decorated nicely and having the proper materials to have a tea party with friends and baking things to take to work--and I'm quite conflicted. I almost think that I should feel bad about wanting to be domestic, when isn't that the whole point of being all feminist and shiz? Being able to make the choice to be domestic? And work outside the home and all that?
I don't know. But hell, if this woman is happy--who am I to bitch?
Oh sperose, totally -- I'm sort of a weird homemaker at heart. I mean, I'm in nutrition (dietetics) which, as a field, has its roots in home economics. So, naturally, I am fascinated by everything home ec-related, even though I'm a pretty hard-core, at times bordering on radical, feminist.
So...yeah. I don't have any quarrel with people living their lives they way they want. And that's part of why I find Candy fascinating, even though she's totally different than me.
But this whole thing just made me go, "Buuuuuh wut?" And much of it is unintentionally humourous as well. Plus all the rebuttals and criticisms from other homemakers makes for excellent blog-dramaz, if you're into that kind of thing.
Well if it were just the homemaking, it would be one thing. But she has gone off into some bizarre tangents in the past-being supercritical of Catholics, for example, and being very very dogmatic on scriptural matters where said dogmatism was kinda in my opinion out of place.
She also believes in the type of home birthing where you don't have any attendants-I think they call it free birthing or something. Kinda dangerous, that. I have no problem with home birth per se, but I think a midwife is a good idea!
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