Anyone else weirded out by the Polygamy cult interviews?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

I dated an ex-cultist for a bit. the stories of the pressure, abuse, and the constant reinforcement of their rules (both positively and negatively) and belief structure. Whew, makes me very glad I never had to deal with such outside pressure.

[panader0]

1. I was struck by how mousey the women seemed

Their voices were squeaky and small. Their dresses wre all alike and their hair styles too. That's OK with me, kinda like the Amish, except the Amish don't practice polygamy. What gets me is the mindset of women who don't mind if their husbands have several more wives.

[Cresent City Kid]

2. Stockholm syndrome

I naively thought I would hear that they were relieved to get a chance to "escape". They have been taught a very different idea of what is "normal".

[louis-t]

3. Stepford people.

They spoke as if in a trance.

[ensho]

4. I've wondered - if they wear old time dress do they use old time rags

for their monthly bleeding? or modern pads?

[LeftinOH]

5. "The Handmaid's Tale"...very similar- even down to the (probably enforced dress code..n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. MSGOP just replayed an interview with

several of them at once, and one who appeared to be their attorney.

There is something seriously amiss with these misses.
"I love my children, and they love me. I love my children and they love me. I Love my children and they love me."

"How old are they when they get married?"

"It is their choice. I love my children and they love me."

seriously, seriously wrong.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Tale Of Two Worlds...

The corporate media broadstrokes what is "normal" behavior and then judges others according to that standard. Deviate and expect to be examined like a piece of meat...conform and be applauded as a "positive value". A lot of what we see of these stories are put through this prism and nuance and facts get swept aside in the moralizing and exploiting.

Call these ladies existance "alien", but you're viewing it from outside...and viewing it through that media or cultural filter that prompts some to ridicule. As crazy as it may seem, there are some who prefer this lifestyle and do so by choice...or find comfort, or others have known no other type of life and have accepted and adjusted. The corporate media loves to rush in and put the big eye and prism on a story...broad-stroking the details to evoke a viewers reaction.

Wierded out...yet I'll bet you're fascinated with the story. But remember, you're watching it through a prism.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. great comment, kharma. and many great points.

Even accepting the prism (which I admit exists) and ADDING my own, anti-religious beliefs and morals, I still come up with the same conclusion. They are weird. To me. By my standards. Seen through the prism you accurately describe.

[KharmaTrain]

10. I Agree...But The Pragmatist In Me Always Speaks Up

I follow the teaching of the right reverend George Carlin when it comes to religion. I've long felt that religion is used to dominate and control...answering questions that can't or haven't been answered and giving certainty in a world that is anything but. It appeals to the ignorant, but also the intelligent who need certainty. But religion is FAITH..not fact and if someone feels comfort or some other moral strength in following a faith, more power to them. I don't want them to judge my beliefs, and in return I try to keep an open mind to how and why others act as they do. Guess that's the dirty fuckin' librul hippie in.

The other day I posted how this group is no different than a cloister of nuns or women in an orthodox Jewish society or women dressed in burkas...and I used the word "cult". You should have seen how I got jumped. :rofl:

Cheers...

[Radio_Lady]

11. Hi KharmaTrain! "I follow the teaching of the right reverend George Carlin..."

I just erupted in laughter! You sound like me.

A few seasons ago, we watched "Big Love" the HBO series on polygamy with Bill Pullman, Jeanne Tripple... Chloe Sevegnie (sp????...) whatever the spelling. Tonight, I pointed to the TV tonight as Larry King showed pictures of the inside of the compound.

He looked up and said, "Boy, those women are in a cult."

He had a first cousin whose wife went into a cult. She took the two kids, gave all her money to the cult leaders, and we have no idea where that women is today.

I'm sorry. This is brainwashing of the first degree.

Cordially,

Radio Lady in Oregon

[kevinbgoode]

12. thank you. As a gay American, I've seen plenty of lunacy among

the Religious Right - and so many of them are getting caught with their pants down. Yet our media celebrates these crazies as if people of reason, especially in dealing with my constitutional rights. No one will ever think of asking these people why they obsess so much about how they imagine others having sex, and isn't that obsession a sin?

Yet they are free to indoctrinate their children. . .why there was a case in Florida just a year or so ago of a man who beat his three-year-old to death because he was trying to "toughen" him up - his big fear? The kid might become "gay." You bet - he was a "religious" nutcase. Did his church get raided and all the children pulled out of their homes?

And what about the continuing abuse of conservative religious nutcases who toss their teenage gay children out of the home simply because the child cannot be changed? That happens much too often - yet those "religious" beliefs are allowed to commit such mental abuse.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

15. since before this administration stole office, the religious reich

has been getting a free ride from MSM, even the catholic church. Just look at the fawning and form over substance greeting that former nazi yute, the current prince of Rome.

[Arctic Dave]

8. From my view it looks like all these people have a

"Little House on the Prarie" fetish. If they make believe enough the wholesomeness will come true.

[madmusic]

13. Kinda like Zero Tolerance?

Funny thing is, it's the "tolerant" who seem to most favor zero tolerance.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

14. I admit it. I have zero tolerance for child abuse

forced sex and marriage with 13 yr olds. Institutionalized rape. Brain washing.

I guess you support all that in the name of religious freedom, huh? Sorry. Did not mean to insult your faith. much.
So which is your preference, child rape? forced marriages? What?