Corrie

Hi Jayne,

I appreciate your desire that some people be very accurate about the things they say on blogs but I would also appreciate it if you endeavored to be accurate in your assessments, too.

Karen’s blog is NOT an egalitarian blog. Lin is exactly correct. You are just repeating the same lies that you have heard elsewhere.

And talk about being banned from blogs? The Baylys banned me for absolutely NO reason. I was polite and on topic and I was respectful. The Baylys ban people simply for asking questions or disagreeing with their stance on some issues. Karen has NOT banned you! You are free to post on her blog whenever you want. In fact, you did that very thing after she asked you and I and others to cease from a certain topic that was OFF-topic.

I find it funny that you call men “nice” who come onto blogs calling the host (Karen) and other commenters “cackling hens” and other various demeaning names along with a host of false accusations about how they don’t take care of their families but then you get up in arms when people have a problem with that sort of rude behavior?

I think the way that many women have been treated over on the Bayly blog is horrendous. The way they treated Suzanne is just more proof of that. Tell me, did Suzanne deserve the response she got from Tim and others? The way they have treated Light is also more proof. Oh, and let us NOT forget about Rebecca and how she was called a “feminist” and a “seminar caller” for simply making some very intelligent statements. All of these women were polite, well-spoken and knowledgeable and they were asking some very good questions. What did they get for being nice, Jayne? They were gracious but they were not treated with graciousness. I do not understand why people would agree with this sort of behavior at all.

The Baylys are NOT complementarians. They, in fact, left CBMW because they thought that CBMW is too wimpy as far as being patriarchal. David wrote a public letter about leaving CBMW but did not even bother to go to those on the CBMW board FIRST before he wrote it. I wrote CBMW to tell them about David’s public statement (10/05) and at that time they had only my email and one phone call telling them of his statement. They think that the word “complementarian” is a compromise to make the egals happy. They are patriarchalists and would rather be known by that term. Most of what they teach is just personal opinion passed off as bible doctrine.

Lin is right that Karen and many others, including myself, are against the patriarchal excesses and legalism but we are not egalitarians. It is not fair to paint people like you and others do ( Stacy McDonald- “white-washed feminists” and “professional mommies”) just because we disagree with how patriarchalists interpret scripture.

Lin is exactly correct that Karen is a gracious hostess and she allows anyone to post on her blogs. You are certainly not banned from her blog nor were you ever banned! She simply asked US to stop talking about a particular subject because it had been talked to death.