Comments on: Eternal Gender Rolls

By: sol

sol — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:07:50 +0000

Oh Spud! Too funny! And oh so true…

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:39:50 +0000

Thank you for the lovely visual, Idahospud.

By: Idahospud

Idahospud — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:27:19 +0000

Then there are the other gender rolls; the ones that on women often settle under the belly button and under the bra strap, and on men are usually seen over the belt.

By: Struwelpeter

Struwelpeter — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:56:43 +0000

When I was an Elders Quorum President, I proposed as a ward activity a “Battle of the Chefs” amongst the three culinary experts in the quorum, one the owner of a Southern BBQ restaurant, one the former chef at a high-end Mexican beach resort, and the other a chef at a very good Chinese restaurant. The men of the ward counsel thought it would be great but the women rejected it as threatening to the self-esteem of the sisters of the ward to find out that their domestic sphere was being so successfully invaded. There was so much wrong with that objection that I didn’t know where to begin.

By: Kevinf

Kevinf — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:39:24 +0000

No comments on gender rolls, but the grape/chicken salad things are rampant here in the Puget Sound as well. Given the alternatives of my youth, however, it sounds good. All we ever had were funeral potatoes, green Jello, and red Mormon punch.

# 13 & # 16, could be talking about different brownies. The Costco brownie bites are round, but delicious to the taste, and desirable above all other Costco baked goods.

By: Cathy

Cathy — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:26:15 +0000

Maybe I’m missing something – is the old chicken-grape-nut combo universally loved by LDS women?

I don’t know about universally, but I love it. Also those Costco brownie bites. Mmmmm.

Strangely, I don’t remember the men of the ward ever putting on a dinner for us women, or vice versa. : /

By: James

James — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 18:08:37 +0000

In all the wards I have been in, the only priesthood activities we could get away with were work parties i.e. moving the Brown’s or doing yard work for Sister Jones.

We tried to plan a EQ activity once but nobody could get out of the house without the wife. If you bring the wife you have to bring the kids too so people without babysitters aren’t left out. If you bring the wife and kids it is pretty much a ward party. If it is going to be a ward party you might as well leave it up to the activity committee.

EQ budget is also only $50 for the year. It is pretty hard to pull something off with that slim of a budget.

By: kwk

kwk — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:01:50 +0000

mini-croissants filled with chicken, grape, and cashew salad

GAG. I have no idea how this dish became a staple in the church. It must be in one of the leadership manuals that wards have to serve this abomination at every activity that aspires to be described as “classy, or “elegant”. Maybe I’m missing something – is the old chicken-grape-nut combo universally loved by LDS women?

I mean, we’re eating on a basketball court here. How about hamburgers?

By: Researcher

Researcher — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 13:25:03 +0000

With all my years in Relief Society, I’ve never had chicken salad with mini croissants OR made brisket for the brethren of the ward. And one-inch square brownies? Never seen ‘em. Now I feel like I’ve missed some religious ritual. Thanks a bunch. Might as well give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice in.

By the way, we were invited to a ward event when we were traveling in the UK and everyone brought a quiche or a sponge cake. No gender rolls there!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 04:57:15 +0000

Mark IV, I have honestly never seen the men do it in either of my last two stakes. Perhaps I should move to your stake . . .