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Originally Posted by Requiem
Only the tip of the iceberg. The men love to put on "breakfast" mingles. Involves a Costco run and slamming oversized cereal and milk on bare tables in the cultural hall. The women always use a real theme, decorate the tables and put out a little effort. Bishop reminds us it is good training for the rest of our church "careers".
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One of my pet peeves about church culture (and not doctrine) is how men are expected and even enoucraged to be slack-jawed spiritual and cultural idiots and women are expected to take up the slack (I realize I'm mixing slacks here, but you get the point). In our ward whenever there is any social event the men always jokingly say how the women have to be in charrge for ti to be any good and the women in the RS actually ENOUCRAEG this thinking. It drives me wild. This goes beyond cereal and doughnuts, but that example is certainly symptomatic. One of the main reasons men are lazy and never do their share is becaseu no one expects them to. This is not ocnsistent, IMO, with the mantle of the priesthood and the expectations of God.