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Surrender Dorothy
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Date: March 31, 2012 10:20PM
"Then came Beck’s first speech in LDS General Conference.
Titled 'Mothers Who Know,' it triggered an avalanche of negative responses. Some conservative women felt inadequate ("Latter-day Saint women should be the best homemakers in the world"), and some liberals felt it described rigid gender roles of housekeeping and nurturing. Within days, the Mormon blogs were aflutter with critiques and counterarguments. An LDS group published a response they called 'What Women Know,' stressing more inclusive language in which men and women are responsible for nurturing, child care and spirituality.
In the aftermath, Beck reached out to bloggers, listening to them, answering their questions privately and engaging them in conversation.
But she didn’t regret the speech.
'Sometimes people like to pick things apart that general leaders say. I don’t get angry,' Beck recently told LDS Living magazine. 'Sometimes I feel sad — mostly for them — and I pray for them and I worry about them and their personal struggles that are causing them to feel some kind of discomfort or misalignment with how things are done.'"
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I could hear her condescending sniff about our failure to understand the absolute truth and brilliance of her talk. She shows true compassion by feeling sad for us that our personal struggles (translation: sins) keep us from getting the one-true way to do things.
She now has time to write the book she was born to write, "Mothers Who Don't Know Sh*t, An Autobiography" by Julie Better-Than-You Beck.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/31/2012 10:22PM by Surrender Dorothy.