EMMA (non illustrated)

Emma Woodhouse has the world at her fingertips. She's young, pretty, and smart; she also happens to be the reigning queen of her village's social scene. Emma.
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My wife manages our family.

You should’ve asked | Emma

I have a job and do housework. I still think that this is a good arrangement. The work my wife does should be respected and revered in society as much as it is in our house. Like Liked by 4 people.

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Many households are like mine, where there is a division of labor within the house…For example, in our home, I admit that my wife does most of the laundry, though I do help with this, and cleans bathrooms more often than I do. We should not wait for them to ask for help. We should be more aware. Many of us, myself included, are guilty of this. We can do better. Those folks are not gender-specific.

Like Liked by 5 people. As is expressly pointed out in the cartoon which is about France, by the way, but I would be stunned if the situation in the US were not similar , in practice this burden does fall predominantly on women, and this IS a gender issue. It should just automatically be shared.

We are moving luckily into a wold were everyone is becoming more equal, and so far we focused on job opportunities, women in politics ext. But it starts at home. Thank you very much, this comic actually changed me. Feminism IS fairness and equality. The one nitpick I have is with the assumption that raising children based upon stereotypes is the problem. If you give a young girl toy trucks, she will often give them names and tuck them into bed at night.

If you give a boy a doll, he is likely to use it as a pretend gun. Of course, these behaviors could be due to exposure to media and peers, so who knows. My point is at the jury is still out on nature vs. Fortunately, we finally have enough money to outsource some of the child care and cleaning duties. We have a male nanny, at least. And women can have this issue too. When you are just in your average daily life, you can generally process around 7 simultaneous stimuli around you.

You notice a few things on the counter, a mess on the table, and the empty mustard in the fridge. Anything not processed is simply discarded as non information. When you are tired, the number of things you can simultaneously process goes down, to example perhaps 3 things.

This reduces your mental load capacity. You either start processing less things simultaneously, or you have less deep thoughts about them. It just exists, and without some form of aide in formulating ideas, there is a high likelihood that it will continue to exist. This is why so many ADHD people work off the concept of checklists.

It can be stressful, but it can also just create a different order and habits that both are doing well? I agree with this comic, even if the man helps out a lot, because of stereotypes and certain societal expectations it turns out women always have to do most of the household management regardless, and I wish that would change. While I agree the socialization of men is a heavy contributor to these issues, I also feel like a number of examples here are also matters of personal preference.

So the woman thinks to pick the towel up after clearing the table, while the man ignores it until it becomes a problem in his own perception. They seem to make it to the cohabitation phase just fine. The examples with children, I think, are far more relevant and meaningful.

Both should be actively involved and constantly vigilant. BUT by this point, she has already done it, because her threshold for a mess was lower. And so, over time as this pattern repeats, he becomes socialized to her doing what she wants, and telling him to do what she wants. So communication IS important despite how this article seems to undervalue it. I can think of many anecdotes of people mocking women for having a messy house while the man who lives there is entirely left off the hook and maybe even pitied.

Anyone who wants men to pick up the slack needs to let them work out their own routines around the house and be very gentle about putting them down for ignorance or different standards.

The internet can teach them everything they need to know about housekeeping. Women in the meantime can learn how to delegate without micromanaging — practice at home and then take the new skills to work. Families now need two incomes to support a family because women wanted to compete with men for jobs, which increased supply of workers and drove down the price of labor.

Now, families can not rely solely on one persons income in order to have a basic standard of living as wages have not kept up with inflation. So women feel overworked in the home and want to force men to step up while men also work more hours, work nights more, work outside more, work more physical jobs, more dangerous jobs to support their families. No wonder why women in the 60s had higher levels of fulfillment and happiness than women today. Who would have thought? Everything that has happened to society is because men allowed it to. What they should have done was send women to work and break their backs on farms, foundries, mines and construction sites while the men worked in the house and cooked and cleaned.

That would make a lot of sense! And there were women working in the 50s — just not the wealthy ones.

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If thats the case then women dont even know when they are happy since women more unhappy today than they were in the 60s. Women have every right they can ever want today without the responsibilities of men and they are still unhappy and feminism is louder than ever before. Emmanuel, women have always worked on farms, in factories and down mines too, as have children. Equally dangerous and backbreaking conditions and paid far less. It sounds like you have had some negative domestic personal experiences with women.

But why go so far as to entirely dismiss the female point of view, going right on to list the great worldly accomplishments of males? Am I a misogynist? At worst, I am apathetic to women, especially those that I have no personal relationship with. In reality I do empathize with women because they created their own problems, unless you can convince me that it was men pushing women into the workforce.

I do not believe that women contribute nothing of note. Men and women contribute to the survival of the species in two completely different ways. Men are much more useful for survival due to the natural dimorphism between men and women. Women are much more useful for reproduction because they are the limiting factor. I thought the content and clarity of the book was superior. I was able to learn so much about Emma Smith.

Beloved Emma: The Illustrated Life Story of Emma Smith

She was a woman full of never-ending faith, sacrifice, and diligence, which she showed to everyone around her. In the book, Lucy Mack Smith defines Emma well when she said:. I have never seen a woman in my life, who would endure every species of fatigue and, from month to month, and from year to year, with that unflinching courage, zeal, and patience, which she has done; for I know that which she has had to endure—she has been tossed upon the ocean of uncertainty—she has breasted the storms of persecution, and buffeted the rage of men and devils, which would have borne down almost any other woman.

The book gave a detailed description of the life Emma lived and the many hardships she faced. However, it also gave a great account of the many miracles she witnessed in her life. She never gave up and always trusted in the Lord. Emma has become a woman who I truly admire. I also really enjoyed the pictures shown throughout the book. They really helped the story come alive. Nevertheless, I wished there would have been a picture of detailed maps showing the route of the destinations that the Smith family traveled to and settled at.

I think the map would have helped given me a better picture of knowing where the Smiths were residing as I read.

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Something else I would have liked to see would have been a greater focus on Emma. It seemed there was a lot of focus on Joseph, which is great, but I was expecting more information on Emma because the title of the book is Beloved Emma. Overall, I strongly recommend this book. I felt very informed and I my testimony of the restoration of the gospel was strengthened. I truly enjoyed reading about the life of Emma Smith and I applaud the author, Lori Woodland, for her efforts in bringing forth such a marvelous book. I finally found the time to read this beautiful book which I have owned since it was released.


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I probably purchased it because it is beautiful: The author was able to help me see what happened through Emma's eyes. It was astonishing to see how faithful she was in spite of the many times she could have quit or felt sorry for herself. But in back of your mind, the cogs are whirring and the longing to get back to work is there! There are times, usually in the later stages of a book, when I know what needs to happen, what I need to write, but I start to slump. When you were a child, can you remember contacting any authors or them ever visiting your school and if so, did this inspire you?

Authors just sat at home, authoring and eating biscuits. I should have had a childhood interest in both writing and contacting authors. It gets worse, Mr E — because I am reading nothing. I find they come creeping into my own writing. Walls and Teaching 3. Could you suggest ways that your book could be used in the classroom for the many teachers and school staff that will read this? The effects on children when parents split, how it manifests in Ned, the different ways it can manifest, how you can help friends in that situation. And maybe some role playing — looking at ways Ned could have handled situations with his friends in a better way, with discussion of the right and wrong ways to behave towards others?

Also, Ned loves making lists — including Ten Questions about Wallboggling. Maybe a class could think about what magic skill they would choose to get, and work out what their ten questions would be. Walls tackles, in a funny and magical way, the effect on a child when parents split up, and what happens when friendships break down. Ned, the central character, has to learn one big lesson: It should be up and running very soon, and all the details will be there.

Two more before you go 2! What has an interviewer or blogger never asked you before, that you always wished you could answer? Because at the time, of course, it was the modern world. I think that would be fascinating, finding how much my own memories tally with the truth of things. Finally, can you share with our readers something about yourself that they might be surprised to learn?

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