Quote:
Originally Posted by Daniel Alicea
The idea of systemic sexism is pervasive even in our society ... CBO if your eyes are open ... We are all victims.
My mother left the Apostolic Assembly 2 years after her conversion because it was even more blatantly/overtly sexist.
The roots of the ultracon holiness movement is rooted in the deep South ... and one would be remissed if one cannot see that often women are subjugated in many of these churches to great extents ... and one way to manipulate and keep women in their place is to make them the trophies of dress holiness.
|
In the past I have actually been made to feel uncomfortable by some pastors who wanted to "show off" the ladies in his church. The preacher would get so wound up and "tickled" by all the "holiness" of the women that it made me cringe. So much saccharine and corn syrup.
And though the women were dressed "modestly," they were still being objectified in a manner consistent with a swimsuit competition.
Oh... and I can see Jekyll's point in saying that the UPC is "a den of incest" but I think that he is being overly harsh and deliberately using loaded words to try and create a scandal here. Chill, Jekyll! Not all holiness preaching is bad!