Did you as a woman buy into and follow the subjection crap?

restrangled

My grandmother didn't, my mother didn't and neither did I. So how does this continue in this advanced day and age?

Why would any woman put up with it?

I saw the results of women getting beat attending the hall. I have heard about women working their hind ends off as their lazy ass husband sat in the front seat of Cadillacs in the full back position (Because they were so tall)...as the older, wealthy widows drove, so they could put in their time and ....pioneer.

I feel until the GB actually has a full generational change, the WT will be straight out of the 50's and nothing will change.

r

Elsewhere

Sounds to me like your family is full of a bunch of Jezebels!

Scully

No, NO, NO, and HELL NO!!!

restrangled

YOU BET, Elsewhere!

looking_glass

My mother was dragged in the back on many occasions for her mouth. I learned to hold it in for the most part, but from time to time my Irish was raised and I said something. My grandmother was of the old school and she towed the line, unless she thought it was something that really needed to be raised, but she would often go to my gramps and have him address the issue. You know the saying behind every good man is a great woman. Well in her case, it was very true.

Confession

Scully: No, NO, NO, and HELL NO!!!

And Scully has proof. Did you see that letter she wrote more than 20 years ago?

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/35663/478991/post.ashx#478991

kls

Well, i guess i don't especially after telling the husband that if he ever trys to recruit our son into jwism again , he better sleep with his eyes open

YoursChelbie

No.

To the shock of the local elders, I took it upon myself to file for a divorce
without Scriptural Grounds™ from my JW husband. His lectures about the big A were getting old and so was he.

YC

J-ex-W

Yeah...unfortunately, I did. My first exposure to JW's was my then-boyfriend's family, and I had moved halfway-cross country to be with him. His family became my family/ JW model. It was sick, dysfunctional, and totally enmeshed, but I was young and inexperienced and didn't have the tools to recognize a lot of the stuff at the time. Nor did I have, by dint of my own upbringing, internalized permission to listen to my own gut/ judgment telling me things were wrong. I also grew up a military brat, so the whole idea of rank and order and subordination and ALL that made perfect 'sense' to me. [Dad was very authoritarian and mom very much a people-pleaser.]

I am gaining that voice and strong sense of self now--four years post-divorce and post-JW. I seriously admire and cheer on those who have it from early years.... YOU GO, GIRL!!!

Schism

Hell, I didn't even change my last name when I got married. Like as if I'd fall for their brainless crap...

My mom, on the other hand, is one of the younger (40-something) generations of JW women who does buy into it and it makes me sick. My dad loves the idea of men being women's masters, and he's brought it up a couple of times in front of me and my spouse. It usually wound up with me yelling at my dad like he was a child and leaving. Next time he tries it, that will be my ticket to unload onto him exactly why I hate the WTS.

Did you as a woman buy into and follow the subjection crap?

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