Two-for-one Kingdom Song Extravagana: A seldom-sung, condescending ode to women.. as long as they keep quiet and behave themselves, and another one that's just more of the same. Yuck.
Even when I was still in I thought there shouldn't be anything odd about me working for a business-owning sister (janitorial, of course!) but I occasionally got the question of how I, a brother, handle taking directions from a sister. It's *work!* That's all. My opinion that some of the elders should be sisters, given that women are just as competent, sometimes even more so than men, were, um, unwelcome. btw I love RU-vidr Kristina Kuzmic's My Husband Does Not Help With The Kids. He doesn't help, he *co-parents!*
I had forgotten how miserable and yawn inducing those songs were. Truly awful, and yet we were expected to joyfully sing those unsingable pieces like they were the epitome of grace. Couple that with the miserable preaching and teaching, and I have to wonder how we didn't believe in eternal torment.
I played the piano at the KH. I was a young teenager and didn’t know too many of the songs, but I was still better than the other sister who HATED to play. I forgot how ultra depressing they all sounded when singing these songs. Like we’d rather be doing anything else
If the Society had included them, they would have had to mention that Deborah was a judge; after all, women aren't supposed to be judges because then they might have to hear cases involving the menfolk. And that just wouldn't be fitting from the Society's vantage point: "We can't have the sisters thinking that they have any real chance of advancing in this organization! What would be next? Supporting the ERA?"
Those were cringe-worthy songs for sure, and boy they were singing off key,lol. I bought a copy of the songbook from my childhood, yet I don't remember ever singing them. I must have washed all that garbage out of my brain! It took me awhile to watch your video's, but I am so glad to be out and not have to sing those terrible songs. Time for us to enjoy life, and get the menfolk to share in the chores that we women have to do all the time!
