Why do my interests in canning, couponing, and homesteading overlap so often with blogs with titles like ‘The Obedient Housewife’?
Like, I’m like, “I want to learn to make soap and farm,” and suddenly I see 500 “traditional family” motherfuckers like no you are mistaken. I am just a simple lesbian anticapitalist looking to limit my consumerism as much as possible.
I have a feminist Quaker friend who I think could relate to this completely. She chooses to dress Plain Modern Quaker dress and wears a head covering of her own design… and works as a computer programmer. (I knew her from the hacking scene, but then she ended up being colleagues with my old housemate for a while.) She’s all into this kinda stuff. Her and her husband got mistaken for Amish at a punk show.
Yeah. Not all folks into “traditional” stuff are actually traditional.
Hi, that’s me. (Like, literally, I’m the friend being spoken of)
I’m also an archer, a weaver, a spinner…look, I’m into living history, ok? Consequently, there are some friends of my dad who also seem to think I’m a prepper.
And actually, we met at Pride first, then at the Ubuntu booth at a folk festival, *then* at a hacking thing.
Well I stand corrected, then. You clearly have a better memory than I do. 🙂
Also, hey, good to see you on here. 🙂
With regards to the original post, there’s a very good sewing blogger who occasionally drops hints her family are pretty conservative Christians. It doesn’t usually affect the blog except for one post about the time she sewed a wedding dress in twenty-four hours because her brother and his fiancée, who had vowed not to so much as kiss until their wedding, announced a couple of months after the engagement that they wouldn’t be able to resist temptation until the planned date, and that therefore they had to get married by the end of the week so they wouldn’t break their vow. Everyone then spent the next couple of days rushing to book a church and throw together a reception, and our blogger made a wedding dress to replace the one that got lost in transit because she didn’t want her sister-in-law to have to get married without a nice dress (even though the bride had said she’d get married in jeans if she had to, she just wanted to be married). Anyway it all turned out fine, and the blogger seemed to consider it a heartwarming story (and an example of how fast she can work if she has to) but I couldn’t help feeling a bit angry at the couple who made a vow that was too ambitious and then put everyone else to a great deal of trouble to move up the wedding date so they could keep their word.
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