Comic relief!

Everyone must be familiar with Lady Lydia's catty remarks on old ladies at the market and Katrina victims. So we though we'd do a comic post. Next in line, maybe Lydia's racist remarks on black slaves in America. Do check out the original link:

http://homeliving.blogspot.com/2005/09/more-readers-respond.html

Data Lounge on Lydia Sherman

I was recently reading a thread on Data Lounge. They of course had very nice things to say about Lady Lydia Sherman which I wanted to share:

Comments: "What a bunch of douchebags!"

"Apparently, equality is an unknown concept to this judgemental bunch of loons."

"Have you even read any of the articles at that site?! Mrs. Jennie Chancey and Lady Lydia and all the rest are Dominionists, who spew hatred and bigotry at every turn."

"Most of the shit at this site is just scary, but some of the domestic related stuff cracks me the hell up, like Lady Lydia Speaks: Laundry With Love. It's, as she puts it, a "dissertation on laundry."
I guess the fact that at 32, I still wash my laundry "college student style," everything together on cold, is yet another outgrowth of being a feminist, and not just because I'm too lazy to be bothered."

"Sounds delicious mon cheries !!
We LADIES need to get out more often, and pick wildflowers, and run through fields of grass, and wade fully clothed into ponds, and... shit.
by: Miss Emily Howard, a LADY!"

"Can we just go back to barefoot and pregnant. Those we the good old days, when women were women." by Arch .H.Bald

"Blech. Someone tell them that pairing a 4 dollar men's tee-shirt with a shapeless tea length calico skirt and some white socks and Keds isn't "dressing decently" by:Tinabina

"Many years ago in San Francisco, there was a satirical group that called itself "Ladies Against Women". They parodied right-wing social politics, and were a sort of precursor to Mrs. Betty Bowers. And now, the real-life version has come into being."

Deleted posts

I suddenly realised I had these photos on my personal cache, which have been deleted from Lollybeth and Lydia's blogs.

Its not just Lydia who's into costume acting!

The Visionary daughters have next lined-up to be praised, feted and dined as they parade themselves in historical costumes. If Elizabeth Botkin wants to follow Anne Boleyn's footsteps does that mean she'd consent to be the mistress of the same man who consorted with her sister? Do these girls at all know history? And also the assumption that Anne Boleyn and Jeanne D Albert were blue-blooded Christians who would be watching their teensy little play from heaven above...the egoism, the assumptions, the vanity and the ignorance. Anne Boleyn promoted Christians for political ends ....just as surely as Geofry Botkin is using his girls as pin-up stars of the homeschooling community for commercial ends. Do read Overcoming the Botkin Syndrome!

Material girl -Lydia!

Why did Lydia marry Mr Stanley Sherman?
Correct Ans: Because he promised her a closet full of clothes.
Check Fascinating Womanhood for the full-length interview Lydia has given to Helen Andelin.

Excerpts from the interview:
I was also interested to learn from this study that girls have to create interest in marriage for men. The prospect of having a home and family can be just as compelling for a men, if only the picture were drawn for them and made to be an advantage to their lives as well. I had been desperately trying to find a partner for life, but was going about it totally in the wrong way. I know many young women who are perfect in every way, but they do not know how to attract a good man. They fail to understand what it takes to motivate men to marry. I always suggest a serious study of this book to alleviate that predicament!
One of the principles taught in this course was developing the spiritual side by consistent Bible study and church attendance. I began to attend church faithfully, and one day to my surprise the young, handsome, single minister, 8 years old than me, asked me to join him at a church dinner. I wasn’t at all sure that I liked him, as we didn’t really “click”right away, and it certainly wasn’t love at first sight. He later said he had observed me out of the corner of his eye on many occasions and began to ask me to come to various church events and accompany him on hospital visits and visits to shut-ins.
I still find it hard to believe but in six weeks he had made up his mind that I would be his wife, and asked me to marry him. He told me of his many plans and ambitions, and suggested that if I did not marry him he would lose his enthusiasm for these things. Of course I did ask him if he felt quite sure and wouldn’t he rather continue on a friendship basis with me. I remember distinctly that he said, “I’ve already got lots of friends! I want a wife.”
I protested only once more. I said that I was not prepared to be someone’s wife, having only a suitcase with a few clothes, a Bible and a diary, to my name. He told me, “If you will marry me I’ll fill your closet full of beautiful dresses and provide everything else you need.” Thirty-three years later I must tell you, he has kept that promise. I’ve had to clean out those closets many times! He bought me a sewing machine for our wedding and has supplied me with the fabric I needed to sew whatever was necessary for myself and the children, over the years.

- Lydia Sherman

Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?

The more one reads Homeliving Helper or Living at Home (as it has been recently changed) and The Pleasant Times, one is amazed at the time and energy these women spend on themselves. Quite narcissist in nature!

All the posts are about their own purer-than-lily selves! Very rarely do their children or husbands get mentioned in the posts. The way Lydia Sherman never talks about her first son (she has 3 kids - Mr Unknown, Lillibeth aka Mrs Elizabeth Humphrey and Mr Stevie Bumpfrey) one wonders if she has murdered him or he's committed the unpardonable sin of not staying with his parents. Is the first child - Mr Unknown the reason for "Guard the Home" blog?

The way Lydia & Lillibeth go on and on about the blessings of sewing - one wonders if they think the key to opening the Pearly Gates is Victorian fashion. And so many, many photos of themselves parading in various outfits! Sigh! Vanity, egoism & narcissism served up with only a veneer of pseudo-Christianity..

Lillibeth & Lydia, how much ever they might pretend they are not aware of the existence of a mirror blog, have made multitudes of changes to their blogs. Lydia has deleted all the posts that have drawn flake and deleted the archives. Lillibeth meanwhile has taken down most posts of her and her mom in different costumes. She has also deleted all the posts on the Bumphries - Lillibeth had a real sense of humour as she commented about the poverty in her family & their huge debts in those columns about the "Bumphries cousins." But once we exposed that the columns were really about her and her family and not about any imaginary cousins, she has systematically deleted everyone of those posts, including the one on the "Austen tea party."

Lydia is paranoid about people getting to know about them...those columns showed the world that Lillibeth's hubby was jobless and Lillibeth's dad was just an insurance agent....poor Lillibeth having to stay with her poor parents because her husband can't get a job and having to delete all those posts, because they showed her family in a bad light.