tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post3990985516710425052..comments2023-07-17T03:57:39.014-07:00Comments on The Liberal Agnostic Who Could: Mormon Housewife BlogsLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268689890561878413noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post-82163383839658551402011-01-18T18:26:52.181-08:002011-01-18T18:26:52.181-08:00Annoying. You called it, Lis. I've got damn TB...Annoying. You called it, Lis. I've got damn TBM friends sharing this damned article on FB as proof of how the fucking mommy blogs spread the gospel.Madame Curiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03599079525934551325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post-88673359690427844082011-01-18T10:28:11.930-08:002011-01-18T10:28:11.930-08:00@CD: Annnnnd the church (and the bloggers themselv...@CD: Annnnnd the church (and the bloggers themselves) are using this facade to endear readers to the church. <br /><br />Again, maybe there are one or two for reals girls like this. Maybe. But there aren't in my experience. I know one girl--she's so sweet, but I can tell sometimes by the way she speaks that things aren't always so squeaky, but how can you not be when everyone else is commenting on how <i>amazing</i> you are? <br /><br />It's self-feeding.Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268689890561878413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post-21677252487262685992011-01-18T06:10:44.972-08:002011-01-18T06:10:44.972-08:00These blogs are just like church where the women p...These blogs are just like church where the women put on their happy faces and act out the picture-perfect life. They are not about real people/women with real emotions and problems. That's why they are so disturbing to exMormons because they make us feel like we are back in Fast & Testimony Meeting listening to Sister Perfect gush out her testimony while wearing cute-as-a-button new outfit and impressing us with the perfection of her ideal husband and plastic children. She doesn't tell you about her anguish with the fact that she has reason to suspect her husband is boinking his paralegal, etc.<br /><br />True to their Mormon culture, they hide who they really are behind the thuper-cute cupcakes and themed birthday parties. Yet in private they are collapsing with attacks of anxiety and not feeling good enough, quietly rushed to the emergency room, and given the prescription meds that keep them going while they keep holding up the fake image of who they really aren't. I know these people. I'm related to some of them.<br /><br />They post photos of an ideal, a fantasy. There is no truth, real, raw; no authenticity. They would never tell you how they really feel, not in a million years. In private they beat themselves up and can't sleep for days with the devastating thought that the neighbors are going to think less of them if they don't come up with the cutest and most clever Christmas craft ever to impress all the neighbors and thus validate their cutesy fake lives. That's what is truly sick and disturbing about these blogs. They aren't written by real people.<br /><br />The non-Mormons fascinated with and addicted to them are addicted to fantasy fiction. And it is incredibly disturbing.<br /><br />//end rantAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post-60537527912934253722011-01-17T10:58:02.976-08:002011-01-17T10:58:02.976-08:00I have a like-hate relationship with these blogs. ...I have a like-hate relationship with these blogs. I want to make my house and kids beautiful like some of theirs are sometimes, but it all reeks a little of shallowness. I look at the family photography: perfect family in expensive, color coordinated clothes hanging out outside of a run down crack house. Sometimes I wonder how often they have to sit and wait for the homeless people to move along. It is all so fake and is one thing I hate about the church I am still part of. On my blog under my real name I try from time to time to show the pretty side, because I do enjoy that, though I don't excel as well as some of those women, but I also write posts about how life kind of sucks sometimes and how I am occasionally close to being certifiably insane. It is destructive the way they try to portray life as perfect. I know it is destructive to readers who feel inadequate compared to their polished lives and I'm certain it is destructive to these bloggers themselves because it must be EXTREMELY exhausting trying to pass yourself off as perfect all the time.Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06171790040429837011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post-29026550754341439292011-01-16T19:14:35.487-08:002011-01-16T19:14:35.487-08:00Yup. Everything you said here, Lisa. 110% agree.
...Yup. Everything you said here, Lisa. 110% agree. <br /><br />I likewise tried so hard to BE the girl on the Mormon Mommy Blogs, and I was *NEVER* happy. Plus, most of the girls I know who do these blogs self-censor. You only see the happy, and you don't see the shit. <br /><br />While the non-Mormon author may say that she realizes its just a fantasy, that this shiny happy people don't really exist, being within the system and proving it for yourself really hurts. It hurts like hell, and I can't ever look at the happy mommy blogs without being reminded of that hurt. <br /><br />Mormon Mommy Blogs have become a caricature of the 1950s June Cleaver family. Oh, joy.Kate Edmondsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17205950968235119828noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post-11194438220046844742011-01-16T16:37:17.983-08:002011-01-16T16:37:17.983-08:00woo for flames!
i agree on that too--but i imagin...woo for flames!<br /><br />i agree on that too--but i imagine (caution: assumption ahead!) that the author doesn't really understand what it is she's saying.<br /><br />But y'know. Who knows. It just doesn't seem like it. And who can really blame her--you dunno until you've been in it and then ran like hell out of it.<br /><br />SSB is some kind of genius. if you haven't, read interviews with the author. she seems to be rather lovely :DLisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268689890561878413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5816147226417130386.post-15938159505378428572011-01-16T15:29:33.714-08:002011-01-16T15:29:33.714-08:00Yeah, I agree. It's a little startling that th...Yeah, I agree. It's a little startling that the author of the article knows that the picture-perfect Mormon family isn't a reality, but still wants to drink the Kool-Aid.<br /><br />That being said, I love Seriously So Blessed. I'm glad she mentioned that one too. Oh, and it was pretty funny when I linked to the mommy blogs in the article, then linked back here to your flames. lolDonna Bantahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01271377907141866718noreply@blogger.com