Neo-Victorian deification of Romney-style motherhood a scam - Examiner

The statements, from all political quarters, defending Ann Romney this week, were all pretty similar: motherhood, especially five-son motherhood, is such hard work, why it's the hardest work there is, so hard that no man could even begin to figure out how to do it.

For example, this is Frank Bruni this morning in the New York Times, defending his mother, and lumping her into the same SAHM-cart with Ann Romney: 

But mostly I remember her at her computer well past 10 p.m., stealing the last hours of the day to do administrative work for some volunteer project she'd been drawn into or for the 60-member competitive swimming club that she and Dad had founded and that she ran largely by herself. I wish I knew how to work even half that hard.

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So, Bruni's mom was working so hard, doing such a good job of mothering him, that she forgot to teach him how to work even half as hard as she allegedly was demonstrating to him 24-7.

Hmm…

And with that Tom Sawyer-esque swindle, men snicker to themselves about what dolts women are to be stay-at-home moms, wasting away their lives playing chef, chauffeur and clown to the next crop of ungrateful brats.

Meanwhile, where the work that matters takes place, where men rule, and shake the earth with climate-destroying poisons and nuclear nuttery, they all know what the truth is (or what they hope it is)—women are dumb enough to buy silly flattery about being the hardest-working (and lowest-paid) goddesses in the universe.

Let's call it gender management 101—how to keep the majority demographic enthralled for thousands of years and still counting.

In Mormonism, for example, where Ann Romney's allegedly hard job is not just her choice, but her spiritual obligation, the scam is written into Mormon scriptures, and is reflected in Mormon organization and indoctrination of young Mormons. 

Women have no chance in the LDS to achieve the highest leadership positions. Furthermore, women are not even counted as possessing the most powerful, healing and blessing, anointments of the Holy Spirit. Only men who have been welcomed into the LDS priesthood can do that.

LDS women, on the other hand, get to work really hard raising much larger than normal broods of children, and are praised by the ruling powers, the LDS men, as of course being God's creatures who are doing the really important work. It seems, among other things, to be patronizing hogwash that has a long and well-established tradition in the Christian (or Christian-inspired) faiths.

Whereas the New Testament gives hints that the early Church was not gender-exclusive with respect to positions of authority, the apostle Paul, the predominant influence in shaping the Church's ministry to the Greek and Roman worlds beyond Judea, seems to have hated women (viewing them as a constant threat to men's self-control) and told Christian women to keep quiet in Church and obey their husbands as they obeyed the Lord.

The Western Church, and thus the West as a civilization, which might have gone a different and much more progressive way a lot sooner, if Paul had been a little more reasonable about how to handle the powers of sex, sanctified and institutionalized the role of women as the chattel of men.

Even though the LDS is a latter-day American derivative, Joseph Smith was a good 19th-century chauvinist, who was not about to rock the traditional Christian boat by suggesting women should have more equality in the Mormon Church. On the contrary, Smith and Brigham Young instituted "restorations" of doctrine that sought to go back to that really old time (i.e. Old Testament) religion—including polygamy for Mormon men who wanted to pretend they were the true inheritors of all aspects of the ancient Hebrew covenant with God.

It is important, while people are droning on about how bad it was to attack Ann Romney for being a SAHM (which mom Hilary Rosen did not do), to note that in addition to Ann being the recipient of an option most American women cannot financially afford to exercise, she is fulfilling a very peculiar version of the American Dream, which most Americans, men and women, would not agree with and not understand.

This might make Mitt Romney's wife an outstanding counselor for Mitt if he should become a candidate for the Mormon Quorum of the Twelve. But maybe not so much to advise him about the economic interests and concerns of most American women in the year 2012.

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