Apostolic Feminists

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Barb

[Truly Blessed]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

This was how I was brought up too - never saw my mother use it as a "tool", but saw love and didn't realize it existed until I met other friends and especially ladies in the work place that talk about it.

I know it exist, just not with me.

Women in the work place. Now I could tell you some stories there. I spent the summer of 1972 working in a shoe factory in a department of mostly women. I had never heard such talk in 20 years of living. I was red faced most of the summer!

[Felicity]

If this subject wasn't so serious it would truly be a hoot but there are concerns here.

One being that you all need to read what is actually said, not what you want it to say!

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

Women in the work place. Now I could tell you some stories there. I spent the summer of 1972 working in a shoe factory in a department of mostly women. I had never heard such talk in 20 years of living. I was red faced most of the summer!

Absolutely! Women will talk about anything!

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Felicity

If this subject wasn't so serious it would truly be a hoot but there are concerns here.

One being that you all need to read what is actually said, not what you want it to say!

I think I've been reading what is actually being said.

What do you think is being misread?

[Barb]

Originally Posted by Truly Blessed

Women in the work place. Now I could tell you some stories there. I spent the summer of 1972 working in a shoe factory in a department of mostly women. I had never heard such talk in 20 years of living. I was red faced most of the summer!

Oops...man onboard...

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by rgcraig

I think I've been reading what is actually being said.

Well then good. If you read the post I just wrote it will help you to understand that I didn't say what you thought I said.

Originally Posted by Felicity

I'm talking about women I know personally like my PW friends, the friends I had before I married, the friends I've made with women in the church. The women in my social circle did not model the manipulative controlling behavior connected with physical attractiveness that you all are talking about here.

I think most people would not reveal this about themselves, even amongst their very good friends, let alone their church ones. So to say it not happening, lets just say their probably not telling.

[Felicity]

Originally Posted by Barb

Oops...man onboard...

TB was raised in the wilderness too!

[rgcraig]

Originally Posted by Felicity

I guess I'm a little less sophisticated than some of you ladies here and don't have the cosmopolitan experience you all have had. I've led a fairly sheltered life. None of the women I've known have acted like this i.e. using their femininity to manipulate men (in a negative sense) into getting what they want.

I never saw this kind of behavior modeled by my mother or my sisters or my grandmother.

Never saw it modeled by my close friends -- either before marriage or after it. Neither I nor my close friends acted this way (intentional manipulation to draw some guy into relationship with us).

Haven't seen it modeled by most of the women I know in any kind of personal way. Like I said the women in my social circle which was the church circle didn't act that way. It was never even thought of by myself --- my mind certainly doesn't work that way. My husband would agree.

Our opinions are formed by our own realm of experience. Guess your realms of experience are outside of mine. All I knew was church, loving God and living for Him. And the friends I've hung with over the years were the same.

Felicity,

Is this post that we've misread?