Comments on: Father’s Day http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/06/17/fathers-day/ let's activate something Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:33:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Skylark http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/06/17/fathers-day/#comment-2107 Skylark Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:17:48 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/06/17/fathers-day/#comment-2107 Thank you, Denver. One of the few Sundays I'm not at Dayspring, and it ends up blog-post-worthy. :-P A couple of years ago I had a mini-meltdown over the question "Is it OK to be white?" I tried explaining this to some people at the conference (Jubilee) I was at at the time, but I think I weirded them out. So, while I can't speak to the struggle of figuring out of it's OK to be male, whiteness would be somewhat analogous. When I hear males complain they're not sure of their identities since the feminist movement began, I'll admit I'm tempted to respond, "Congratulations, you now know a little bit of what it's like to be a woman." That may or may not be helpful. When I was having my mini-meltdown over my racial/ethnic background, I was grateful that people of other backgrounds just let me go through it instead of blaming me for not being further along. Thank you, Denver. One of the few Sundays I’m not at Dayspring, and it ends up blog-post-worthy. :-P

A couple of years ago I had a mini-meltdown over the question “Is it OK to be white?” I tried explaining this to some people at the conference (Jubilee) I was at at the time, but I think I weirded them out. So, while I can’t speak to the struggle of figuring out of it’s OK to be male, whiteness would be somewhat analogous.

When I hear males complain they’re not sure of their identities since the feminist movement began, I’ll admit I’m tempted to respond, “Congratulations, you now know a little bit of what it’s like to be a woman.” That may or may not be helpful. When I was having my mini-meltdown over my racial/ethnic background, I was grateful that people of other backgrounds just let me go through it instead of blaming me for not being further along.

]]> By: Kara Noecker http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/06/17/fathers-day/#comment-2106 Kara Noecker Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:08:35 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/06/17/fathers-day/#comment-2106 "we have a huge responsibility to figure out what it means to be radical Anabaptist men seeking after what God intends for us while rebuking harmful stereotypes" --Amen to that. As a female growing up in an Anabaptist church, even I have run into the constant "male-bashing" that the world seems to dwell on lately. Some of my close family memebers think the idea of submission is utterly appalling, and try to "offset" the idea by engaging in male bashing. Little do they know, they are guilty of the same thing they are so bothered by... -in Christ, Karaleigh “we have a huge responsibility to figure out what it means to be radical Anabaptist men seeking after what God intends for us while rebuking harmful stereotypes”
–Amen to that. As a female growing up in an Anabaptist church, even I have run into the constant “male-bashing” that the world seems to dwell on lately. Some of my close family memebers think the idea of submission is utterly appalling, and try to “offset” the idea by engaging in male bashing. Little do they know, they are guilty of the same thing they are so bothered by…
-in Christ,
Karaleigh

]]> By: Forrest Moyer http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/06/17/fathers-day/#comment-2104 Forrest Moyer Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:23:35 +0000 http://young.anabaptistradicals.org/2007/06/17/fathers-day/#comment-2104 Thanks, Denver. Very encouraging. Since I rarely look at this blog, it was nice to encounter something uplifting :) Have a great week! --Forrest Thanks, Denver. Very encouraging. Since I rarely look at this blog, it was nice to encounter something uplifting :) Have a great week!
–Forrest

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