I figured out my problem!

[carolynsinger]

OK, I know I've been terrible about posting this semester. Quick recap: I'm meeting my goals for the semester. I'm not behind yet, and it's almost finals.; I've been working ahead even. Also, I've worked out regularly, I've been eating well (our meal schedule did the trick!), my body feels good, and the house has been reasonably clean all semester

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[bassclefchick]

This made me think of something I saw the other day.
I was flipping through book of postcards from the Post Secret website in a bookstore the other day. There was one from a woman who wished she had been born into an ultra conservative community so she wouldn't feel so much pressure to have a super successful career and exciting personal life. It's like you can't win either way.
I can relate somewhat. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the conservative worldview I had in high school, because it was simpler in some ways. But I know I could never go back unless I could erase from my memory the things I believe now and I wouldn't want to do that.
It's all very complex. Feminist theology sounds like an interesting course!

[carolynsinger]

You're absolutely right, Rach, we can't win. Yes, life would seem "simpler" if I'd stuck around the predominantly fundamentalist town in which I was raised. But so many things cannot be explained from that worldview. Is ignorance bliss? Maybe. Pressure to do it all is, according to some contemporary feminists, just as oppressive as having no choice over what we do. We are still held to impossible standards.

I've wondered, as a result of this class, if I can stay a Christian. I think that I would sooner lose my faith than go back to life in conservative Christianity. That's because it allows women, people of color, LGBTQ persons, and Muslims to be dehumanized... it fails to speak out against injustice and sometimes even perpetuates it.