Not to mention, it's entirely incorrect. Yes, it's a gendered attack based on the idea that only childless women can advance, and sure that's logical for most things in the church. However, not for Carri Jenkins. Guess what? She has kids! Yes, she worked outside the home. Shocking. I'm over the fact that even though all of these exmormon guys think they're so progressive, they don't recognize their own shortsightedness.Portia wrote:I'm not only bothered by the "spinsteress" attack on etymological grounds. I think that it's so very obvious that single, childless women are those who are least bound by the double shift and unequal expectations, so no shit that they're more likely to advance in academia, much less MORMON ACADEMIA.
Attacking the messenger, who has literally no institutional power to change policy (the Board of the university is literally tied to the Priesthood, and women can only access that institutional power through marriage in a Mormon framework) is such a garbage argument. The misogyny among ex-Mormons gets old.
I had classes with one of her kids and dated one of her kids' mission companions. This is the only reason I know this.