[Editor: Laura Grace Robbins offered a very convincing response to yesterday's NAWALT post.
Short and sweet it is, and undeniably true.
I stand corrected...
]
Laura:
Women are all like that. It it the default or primal position. If one is to rise out of that they have to continually be consciously aware that they can be “like that” at any minute and have to always keep themselves one step ahead. This just doesn’t happen much though because being so consciously aware takes a lot of work and a willingness to accept a fallen nature. It is much easier to blame men than to look inwards (i.e., “men make me “like that”).
Being like that as a default position is why the same sort of behavior often manifests in the conservative/traditional/Christian women. It is the baseline. Slapping some title on yourself like those does not absolve you of your sinful nature. They think they are absolved though because they are cushioned behind their “traditionalist”, etc., title who believe in morals, family, marriage, etc., so, therefore they can’t possibly be “like that”.
