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Arkansas Granny

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6. It wasn't just nuns teaching that lesson. When I was growing up girls were always

Reply to SCantiGOP (Reply #2)

Sun Jun 21, 2020, 01:11 PM

Jun 2020

being warned about wearing clothes that might give boys the "wrong idea". People wanted to know what a rape victim was wearing or what did she do to drive a man to act that way. If a girl got pregnant she either got married quickly or was branded as being "that kind of girl".

Girls were taught that they were responsible for their own sexuality as well as the conduct of the boys/men with whom they came in contact.

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Evangelicals Are More Anti Fornication Than Anti Abortion [View all] DanieRains Jun 2020 OP

Christian extremism has always been about putting the woman under a subjugated iron foot sunonmars Jun 2020 #1

Reminds me of being taught by the nuns in elementary school SCantiGOP Jun 2020 #2

It wasn't just nuns teaching that lesson. When I was growing up girls were always Arkansas Granny Jun 2020 #6

OK, so anti-forn...how do they square that up with their Jeebus Dumpy? CurtEastPoint Jun 2020 #3

They are anti-minding-their-own-fucking-business. Iggo Jun 2020 #4

If they were anit fornication, the hypocrites wouldn't do it so much Warpy Jun 2020 #5

They're certainly not anti-masturbation. LuvNewcastle Jun 2020 #7

It has ALWAYS been about controlling women's sex lives... Wounded Bear Jun 2020 #8

They want women punished for sex. Codeine Jun 2020 #9

They want women punished for being in charge of sex. Iggo Jun 2020 #10

That's a better way of putting it. Codeine Jun 2020 #11