Southern Baptist seminary to offer academic program in homemaking
Coursework will include seven hours of nutrition and meal preparation, seven hours of textile design and "clothing construction," three hours of general homemaking, three hours on "the value of a child," and three hours on the "biblical model for the home and family."
Seminary officials say the main focus of the courses is on hospitality in the home - teaching women interior design as well as how to sew and cook. Women also study children's spiritual, physical and emotional development.
I have no words.
*Or, The Subjugation of Women
And it was "breaking news"??? OMG!
Posted by: token | August 09, 2007 at 16:43
WOW! Straight from the 1950s.
Posted by: Margaret | August 09, 2007 at 16:58
That seems like something I would write in satire. Not something that actually exists. So sad.
Posted by: AndreAnna | August 09, 2007 at 17:33
I feel an urgent need to puke.
Or to write an indignant letter to these people.
Or maybe both at once?
Posted by: Chloé | August 09, 2007 at 20:15
Oy. Are you sure that this wasn't a long delayed radio message that was beamed into space and bounced off of some long dead star?
Posted by: Karan | August 09, 2007 at 20:45
Oy. Are you sure that this wasn't a long delayed radio message that was beamed into space and bounced off of some long dead star?
Posted by: Karan | August 09, 2007 at 20:46
Where do I sign up?
Posted by: Joolie | August 10, 2007 at 02:04
Please tell me that these classes are co-ed, that men are supposed to know these things, too. I want a man that can sew me a dress!! :)
Posted by: meredith | August 10, 2007 at 03:54
Nope, it's open only to women, along with a select number of other courses which I had no desire to track down. What amazes me is that they also offer real classes for women, especially classes on ministry, since it was the southern baptists who recently decided that Timothy's exhortation to women to STFU was words to live by.
Posted by: AlisonM | August 10, 2007 at 06:25
Hmm. Does one get a degree upon completion of this coursework? The curriculum seems just a tad antiquated to me. But then again, what do I know? My house is a generally a mess and I can't sew worth anything.
Posted by: ally bean | August 10, 2007 at 15:10
Hope it doesn't kick me off as obscene... WTF? Is this someplace near you? Oh, Kentucky!
I actually went to our county fair last night... another little trip back in time.
Posted by: Heather | August 10, 2007 at 16:31
two words: HA-ha!
Posted by: barb | August 11, 2007 at 01:29
These are the core requirements for the MRS degree, dontchaknow.
Posted by: AlisonM | August 11, 2007 at 06:48
I wonder what they'd do if a man showed up?
Posted by: Betty C. | August 11, 2007 at 13:37
Well, actually, the textile design and clothing construction interests me, but only because I really love sewing. I WISH I could have taken a textile design course :)
But I don't think that's quite what they had in mind ...
Posted by: Jen | August 12, 2007 at 07:38