Comments on: Hopeful for a radical change in babywear

By: Mary Ann

Mary Ann — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:05:36 +0000

Hi Emily,
Thanks for your comments! In regard to your first comment – wow, it’s great to find other parents who feel the same way about babywear!! And though you did not get a girl to teach her she could do anything, God gave you a boy so that you could teach him how to honor women and be one to fight for the cause of women. We need more men who believe in biblical equality. What an opportunity you have! — Mary Ann

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:59:40 +0000

I also had a long question I want to ask you because I like where you are coming from- your marriage and your journey into foster care is inspiring!
Due to some fear and anger about facing labor for the first time, I have been reading articles and blogs about the “curse” on Eve for pain/sorrow in childbirth. Some people talk about how women shouldn’t take pain meds because it’s their punishment for sin. I find that shocking! I agree with the people who say if pain meds in childbirth are “unChristian” then men should all be sent back to the fields to toil the land by the sweat of their brow! But then I was thinking- women work too. Women in all countries toil and sweat for their food literally in the gardens or by working outside the home or by making dinners, etc. So doesn’t that mean the women have to deal with a double curse- the pains in childbirth AND the cursed ground, which God spoke to adam? And added on that is the power struggle between men and women – women are on the losing end of that battle, according to Gen 3. So it seems the punishment for sin falls heavily on women. Why do you think this is? Thanks for any thoughts you have on the subject!

By: Emily

Emily — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:53:19 +0000

Hi- I found your blog through cbe’s blog. I had the same problem, but with boy clothes. Why do boys clothes have ugly firetrucks on them? Why are they trying to dress him like a major league baseball player? I really wanted a girl, and I cried when I sorted through a bag of donated boy’s clothes, thinking of all the stereotypes. With a girl, I was excited to teach her to be anything she wanted to be- to encourage her to fight limitations. But with a boy, it almost feels like I’ll have to teach him to put limits on himself, to restrain the power his has by mere fact of being male. That seems like not as much fun, and possible unjust. I haven’t sorted it out in my mind yet.