Strange Website
I had trouble accessing my blog for a while, thus the delay in posting.
Anyway, I was at the commissary last week or so and there was a sprog that sounded exactly like a foghorn. I am not joking around here. The little brat kept leaning forward in its gargantuan stroller and opened its mouth and repeating made foghorn noises. Perhaps it had just discovered that a widely opened mouth and lots of air is a great way to give fellow shoppers a monster headache. Foghorn Sprog was in the produce section and I could still hear it in the toiletries aisle. Nice eh?
So at work the following day, I decided to browse some of my favorite childfree websites to relieve some of the annoyment caused by previously mentioned Foghorn Sprog. Well, apparently SrA ProudToBeAMommy who administers the firewall decided that childfree websites must be blocked. However, I did stumble onto a site called “Above Rubies”. I’m nervous to post the link because I really don’t want these people mad at me.
Allow me to describe them: they would be the uber overinvolved soccer moms, the ones that not only get offended by my favorite radio station, but would also burn it down while singing contemporary praise hyms.
They get their name from a Bible verse that says something to the effect of a good woman having a value above rubies. Their definition of a “good woman” is quite different than mine; they feel that a woman’s place is the home, that God is the boss of the husband, and the husband is the boss of the wife. Mkay. Women are encouraged to have as many children as possible, and the site is full of “testimonials” from people who delete their (kinda paltry) life savings to have vasectomies and tubal litigations reversed, often with financial assistance from their churches. Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t it be a better idea for a couple who regretted sterilization to lovingly adopt a child that needed a home? And what kind of parishioner donates money to a “cause” such as sterilization reversal?
Anyway, the gist of their website was that if women submit to their husbands, have as many children as biology allows, eat a vegan diet with at least 60% raw foods, and take a crap at least 3 times a day, then those women will indeed be above rubies. The website gave me a good laugh, but unfortunately a “how to deal with the stresses of motherhood” story destroyed my fondness for peanut butter.
In other news, I am going to write some more travel posts about recent trips, and try to put more useful info them like hotel, public trans, etc. I’ll still post a trip report full of the usual misadventures.