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Starry Messenger

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2. I'll never understand how women get sucked into this pattern of total submission.

Reply to niyad (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 14, 2013, 10:42 PM

Jan 2013

Religious sects I can understand, kind of. Not really, but a tiny bit. This whole hand your power over to someone who is harming you, actively, is deeply seated conditioning that goes against everything instinctive in your brain to protect yourself.

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I had really hoped that, by the time we reached the 21st century, that this kind of non-thinking niyad Jan 2013 #1

I'll never understand how women get sucked into this pattern of total submission. Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #2

Christian Domestic Discipline get the red out Jan 2013 #4

The author's self justification is unconscionable. She posted an "update" on her blog catbyte Jan 2013 #3

If her publisher had any integrity Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #5

You've got that right, Starry. It's just awful. Her memoir is just awful, and her publisher is catbyte Jan 2013 #6

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OMG, that's like a person would do with a dog! get the red out Jan 2013 #8

Totally awful. Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #9

OMFG for real?! obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #11

From the Gawker link... Gormy Cuss Jan 2013 #13

Yes. I'm shocked he didn't send him a fruit basket too. Starry Messenger Jan 2013 #14

Yet she is an accepted source for DU obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #10

This reminds me of Scott Glenn's character in "Urban Cowboy" obamanut2012 Jan 2013 #12

Why, bless her lil ol' damaged heart, the poor thing thinks she's a poodle. Zorra Jan 2013 #15