Lady-like way to reply to comments

The lady-like way to reply to comments is many a time labelled cowardice by many. 

But being lady-like in your internet comments is necessary. If you want to be nasty to someone you can write to them in private like I have done so.

When those women at Punkassblog came up with "I have infinite time and leisure time and wealth that allows me to play Victorian Pioneer Supergirl, but without the Tuberclosis."

Many of them made nasty comments like:

Christopher

This is a parody, right? They’re doing characters, right?

It’s so hard to tell these days.

Ryan

After reading the title to this post, I considered quitting blogging for good out of that burning feeling of joke inadequacy. I realized it was just that I had spit a mouthful of hot coffee into my lap. Now if I could just marry the spawn of some nice Wal*Mart shopper, I could get this cleaned up.

Ryan

I posted this little summary of a late 18th century sex guide last year: The Horn Book. Although it’s probably the most graphic how to I’ve ever seen on the ways of the bedroom, maybe you should send the link along to Lady Lydia.

She wouldn’t want her sons’ wives to think it’s wrong to cuckold their tightly-wound, disinterested husbands, would she?

delagar

The Wilder books, which are a lot more realistic than this bint gives them credit for, also have a scene, in Little Town on the Prairie, I believe, where Laura, sent off to teach school to help support the family because her Pa can’t manage to do it on his own, has to board with a woman who tries to murder her husband with a *knife* because she’s so sick of being treated like a servant. Slaving from dawn to dusk, I believe the actual dialogue reads. Maybe Miss Lydia skipped that chapter.

Douglas, Friend of Osho

When I click on the profile button of these ladies’ blog, I see an item marked “Team Member”. Apparently, one has to be such a member in order to leave comments about their posts (fair enough). Ergo, I suppose it’s safe to assume the team members listed consitute the entirety of the team’s membership. Is a stretch for me to assume that they constitute a society of exactly two, as the only members listed are…themselves? I am not being facetious, I know as much about how these memberships work as I do about phrenology. Please advise.

?!

This is where I confess that I have a sick, fetish-like obsession for websites about uber-Christian female modesty. Have you seen Lady Lydia and her ilk’s catalogs of “modest clothing for women”? Amazing.

Anyway, I linked to you from my blog - Feel free to do the same if ya like

Alice

THANK YOU. I read that post the other day and didn’t even know where to begin to comment on it.

Thank you especially for this: Lady Lydia, a living example of the kind of delicate femininity that can be yours if you have some kind of Victorian fetish and a husband and or community willing to help you indulge, which pegs her community’s mentality perfectly, and had me rolling with laughter.

By the way, to the commenter above me, you are not alone; I share your obsession. I think there are many of us, actually.

evilchemistry

And then crazy lady continues with the singular. That’s fucked up. I bet her family is more like the Peacocks.

mr skin

If you ever get a chance to, listen to the old audio recording of the original War of the Worlds. It’s pretty good, and people throught it was really happening when they heard it on the radio.

Antigone

Yeah, “Soap making” with pre-built kits don’t exactly include animal fat that you have to render, and the lye is in little bottles with a book telling you to wear gloves. Not really the same thing.

Anne

`You might like my post Dear Lady Lydia on the website whitewashedfeminist.com

Their teachings drive even many conservative Christians batty.

And thanks for this, it seriously cracked me up.

Molly

Thank you, thank you, thank you, for bringing some REAL history into the world of anti-feminist historical revisionism.

A former “lady-against-feminism,”

Kate

That first quote about the future daughter-in-law being in the kitchen with her (whichever LAF woman that was — Lydia?) was so full of self-absorbed snobbery! Talk about the future mother-in-law from hell!

So, THAT’S one way how so-called, modern-day hierarchalist, patriarchalists are made. For a while now I supposed it had more to do with peeniee envy only, and not just the neurosis of latent matriarchs with their lace collars buttoned up too tightly.

Loved the reference to the Allposters.com site  I’ll have to be careful here, because I happen to really gravitate towards intelligent and pain-in-my-side-from-laughing-so-hard sarcasm. It’s addictive.

Iva Bigbody

Xenophobia is not just attached to the national folk religion that Lady Lydia follows but is also a consequence of the gender related effects of enmeshment that they manifest.

The women in Lydia’s cultic religious movement generally have a fantasy-based view of life as part of their “love you into loving yourself” mentality, their own reactions to their own upbringing. The men are detached and pathologically paternalistic, so they are a good yang to their partner’s yin.

Both types are Xenophobic, so the whole pious fear of contamination from other cultures and groups just becomes intensified by their gender-enmeshment traits.

They just read like the textbooks about dysfunctional (addicted) families, actually.

http://botkinsyndrome.blogspot.com/2008/07/roles-that-enmeshed-and-abandoned.html

Conservative one

Let’s not forget that ma had to go to work in the local hotel in order to provide.

If Lady Lydia learned “One thing I learned reading her books is that in those times there was a clear distinction between woman’s work and man’s work” … then she missed the point of the series.

Laura’s daughter ended up being a career woman … she was a journalist. Moreover, it is my understanding that Laura’s daughter was encouraged and supported to have a career by her parents & maternal grandparents.

I see that Lady Lydia conveniently ignores that most men could cook, sew, iron, manage a household, and more. Why? Several reasons …

• cowboys/trappers/hunters needed to perform these tasks consistently or risk losing their businesses (I am NOT saying there weren’t any cowgirls, trappers, hunters … e.g., Annie Oakley)

• a family could NOT afford to have women inside working all day … they needed EVERY body they could get out into the field to work … this was vital to the existence of the family

• when a woman was in labor men needed to perform these tasks to keep the family going

With respect to the statement: ““She did not like to see women working in the fields. Only foreigners did that. Ma and her girls were American, above doing men’s work”. (The Long Winter, 1st Harper Trophy ed., 1971, p. 4).”

That simply demonstrates that foreign women performed these tasks all the time. It demonstrates how nationalism was beginning to take root in the USA where American women felt that only the lowly European or Eastern European were fit to be in the fields. Even though this is a racist statement, it is beginning to demonstrate how American women were leaving the field for other paid endeavors (e.g., Ma Ingalls working as a teacher and working as a cook in the field, Laura Ingalls working for her own income, Laura’s daughter having a career as a journalist, etc.)

I of course very sweetle replied:

Lady Lydia:

It took me a long time to make the costume that you see on my blog. I wear it a little more often than a girl would wear her prom dress.

Soap kits are popular even amongst those of “your ilk”. Check out Michaels, JoAn Fabrics, Hobby Lobby, and many other places where craft products are available. Yes, in the year 2008. Imagine that. Making soap in the 21st century.

(Of course I didn't answer any of the questions they raised, but that my dear is successful diversionary tactics)

(My attempt at sarcasm)

Lady Lydia:

Maybe the punk rock culture today can guide young women into a safer, better lifestyle. Maybe Madonna is a better role model. Maybe.