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Post by Mini Mia on Jan 18, 2023 0:54:37 GMT -6
JUNE 6: August Epp, At Night Between Meetings
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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 12, 2023 19:14:54 GMT -6
I will be starting chapter 3 soon.
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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 13, 2023 10:58:18 GMT -6
No way will the men be dictated to. No way would they let a lowly woman take charge of her life, and especially not theirs. The women have no rights whatsoever, and are treated as property to be ordered about. If the women stay, they will have to continue as if nothing happened. Leaving is the only way the women can move forward and make the life they want for themselves. Their treatment was always abusive, in that there was rarely any concern for them. Because at this point, I don’t know if the men who were upset with the abusers were upset for the women, or that the abusers stole their piece of mind over not being good protectors.
I keep wondering if August would be allowed to marry Ona so that she can keep her baby. The thought of the men forcing her to give up her child is making me extremely angry. And the way she is treated by the men, even though she did nothing wrong. I’m glad I wasn’t born into such a community.
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Post by Joxcenia on Feb 14, 2023 15:39:53 GMT -6
As I’m rereading this chapter, I remember that Eve is why women do not deserve respect. Eve brought about Adam’s downfall. Adam’s temptation and willingness to take a bite of the apple is all on Eve. [Some] Men will not acknowledge, nor accept, their failures as their own. “The devil made me do it.” And women are the devil’s vessels that force them to stumble. These men sleep with the enemy because of their carnal needs, and to produce more upstanding men take over control, and lowly women needed to procreate, and wait on them as servants. Women are nothing but gossips who will cause all kinds of problems if not kept on a short lease.
[Some of] The men probably see the rapes as the women’s fault. The women probably encouraged it somehow. The abusers were weak, but surely have learned from this and will not fall prey to the women again.  Or it’s that the women deserved punishment for what Eve did. Evidently, this community picks and chooses and twists Bible verses to suit their agenda. And since men are superior to everyone and everything, they determine how the underlings should be treated. These men need a better leader. But then, what other man in the community would see the women as anything other than sinful creatures out to destroy the men?
The treatment of August shows how huge the divide is between being a man and being a woman. Doing women’s work is as good as being a worthless human being. August will never be seen as being worthy of being considered one of the men. He will always be an outsider. He should be allowed to leave with the women and children. The women need him to educate them, so that they can communicate with the outside world and be able to do business with it.
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