Reply #2: Same here, Lisa

[MountainLaurel]

I grew up attending a fundamentalist church as well, and have heard all the same things. But I never bought that line of horseshit. In my case, my parents -- especially my mother, who ran out of scholarship money partway through her sophomore year in college and took a job to help support her family -- told me from the start that I WOULD go to college and that I could do ANYTHING I wanted to.

But the overall culture where I grew up was one where women were to defer to their husbands in all matters, were able to work as a teacher, nurse, or secretary of some sort, were considered barren if they hadn't procreated by age 24 or so, and where education beyond high school was not the norm for anyone, male or female, and was not valued.