by Gill 19 Replies latest jw friends
his oft stated comment that women were only "a stack of bones and a hank of hair." (September 15, 1941 WT, page 287)
It was not just said at a convention but it is in print. I can understand now why my Bible Student grandparents did not like Rutherford, especially Gram. She was a career woman when it wasn't cool.
Makes you wonder, if Rutherford were here now and uttering those words how many women would be left in the bOrg by the next day. Perhaps they'd all be round to Brooklyn to whip his crooked ass!
Hillary, were you around at those assemblies to see the women's reactions??????
Minimus,
Hillary, were you around at those assemblies to see the women's reactions??????
Sometimes I think you have spaghetti for brains, other times I know you have. HS
I always was under the impression that Hillary was quite old and certainly may have been around at that time. Apparently not eh? How old are you HIllary? Tor
I recall hearing that phrase repeated by JWs over the years - although not for many years, now. It seems to me that it was a popular phrase back in the early-mid part of the twentieth century. Remember the song "Honeycomb"? It used the phrase.
So, as insulting as the phrase may be, I don't think it was coined by JWs - merely adopted by them. It is also possible that it may not have originally carried it's current insulting connotation.
Runningman - Possibly just as the word 'Slave' may not have carried it's current insulting connotation?!
RunningMan...As mentioned above, it was coined by that ol' bastard Rudyard Kipling.
It pretty well sums up their opinion of women. Not cool...
Jean
Hillary - supposedly Rutherford used that same expressen when he heard that my dad was thinking of leaving his special pioneer assignment in Kentucky in the 40's. He (my dad) wound up graduating from the 9th class of Gilead - marrying my mother on assignment 5 years later.
I "came along" a year later. After toting me around Europe for 18 months on missionary assignment, they decided to return to the states. The letter he received from Knorr was a lot more understanding!
So, instead of leaving his assignment for a "hank of hair / bag of bones" it was for a "drooling, yowling bag of diapers".
Mak
