A Proper Wife

I don't usually love HuffPo, but I appreciated this considering how many people misunderstand the term feminist. It's really pretty simple. We really need to re-brand this term. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-searles/how-to-tell-if-youre-a-feminist_b_4185742.html

http://whatwomenknow.org/all_are_alike/ I was amazed to realize that I hadn't yet published this list on here. I really like a lot of these suggestions and it seems from recent events that the leaders of the church are listening! :)

http://utahvalley360.com/2013/11/04/primary-young-women-and-relief-society-broadcasts-combining-in-2014-general-conference/ Now I wonder if they'll consider it officially part of conference and make it as long as the other sessions? I think it's pretty awesome that the leaders do seem to be at least considering the most common sense attempts at parity. I'm excited to see what other changes are in the works!

I've recently been discussing with some friends an LDS cultural phenomenon that can be a source of frustration for women such as myself. It's something that before I got married, I never even dreamed I'd have to deal with. It is what occurs nearly every time I meet a new LDS man. He tends to ask my husband what he's studying, what his career plans are, what interests he has and then he almost always fails to pose these same questions to me. I'm guessing there's the tacit assumption that the answer to the question, "what do YOU do?" when posed to me would basically be, "I'm his wife. I... wife him." This is hard for me. Before I was married, LDS men would ask me these questions. They wanted to know what I studied, what my aspirations were, what my hobbies and interests were. So my question is, why do these questions cease after marriage? Do these men feel like their interest might be somehow misconstrued as too much? Is my major in colle...

Even mormonwomen.org is talking about women and the priesthood. The link below is a collection of very conservative sources addressing the issue. http://mormonwoman.org/2013/06/30/pondering-mormon-women-and-priesthood/

This recent post   on Feminist Mormon Housewives was so refreshing to me. I've been hanging out on the FMH facebook page and honestly, it can be a little depressing at times for me. As in any movement or organization, the more radical members tend to also be the most outspoken and end up being the de facto representatives. I think that's unfortunate in this case, because the borderline ex-LDS or straight up anti-Mormons end up misrepresenting the very legitimate feelings of faithful, active LDS women who desire to see moderate change in the culture and some of the policies of the church in order to more accurately reflect the doctrines that we love. This misrepresentation ends up ostracizing people who would probably be supportive to the cause if it were represented more accurately and moderately. The post describes this problem and the broad spectrum of feelings and opinions that exist under the umbrella term "feminist" within the church. Anyway, it was just valid...

I felt like I had to link this for anyone who has feminist temple issues as I do. This whole issue is about different women's experiences with the temple, some very positive, others more reminiscent of my own. It was very comforting to realize just how many other women struggle with the same questions and pain as I do. I still pray that I will live to see major changes made to the wording of the temple ceremonies, which I don't believe are consistent with the professed doctrines of the church regarding women and are merely vestiges or the earlier, more patriarchal society in which these ceremonies came out and were developed. Anyway, check it out! The free PDF is at the bottom of the page. Exponent II