Jennifer

Cheryl, to answer your much earlier brilliant observation, “What do people like Kamilla get out of following the Bayly boys? I do not know her heart so I cannot judge her motives. However I do wonder if women like this have a need to be controllers but that they also have a need to work underneath the authority of these leaders so that it doesn’t appear that they are indeed strong controlling women? Thoughts?”

You pretty much answered this question with the last sentence and the several sentences afterward: the most extreme women do wish to appear “submissive”, like Jennie Chancey and the unpleasant Carmon Friedrich. Kamilla’s another breed, though, in the sense that I’m not sure she actually believes she needs authority over her, nor does she seem to care to give any impression that she’s submissive in spirit the way the other women do. I think instead she’s one of those who blatantly sees the spoils evident in patriarchy: while it clearly isn’t beneficial to women, certain members of it do spoil, coddle and flatter their females, while others enjoy letting their truly snappish wives butter their egos in public and snarl at women who stand taller than they and their husbands. Kamilla has no husband, but she has tapped into the Baylys’ agenda and is clearly their most treasured female. I’m guessing this is both because she flatters them most and mirrors their unkind spirit best, rather like the bulldog or small terrier adorned in the same outfit as its master. And as we know, with certain canines, the master enjoys giving the dog a long leash so it may snarl at others and even lets it run loose occasionally, to show its meagerly sized but razor teeth to anyone the master doesn’t like.

I’d never noticed before that the Baylys tire of some of their prized females (and yes, I’m using animal-like terms here deliberately, as these people remind me especially of the harsh patriarchal baboons and their harems I just saw on the Discovery channel). Just as well; perhaps they’ll lose more followers this way. The observation skills and analysis I see on this site have been brilliant.