my inner feminist

I enjoy being a girl.

Yesterday I took Anna to the bank to open her very first checking account. We walked in with Jack in tow, the other girls otherwise occupied at ballet class and Activity Days, and met with a very chatty banker, who walked us through the process.  

We learned she has two boys and two girls of her own and that she LOVES babies (as evidenced by her constant fawning over Jack).  She remarked, “You are going to LOVE having a boy.  They are SO different than girls.”  (As if girls were something worthy of disdain.).  I thought to myself that aside from diaper changes, I hadn’t experienced anything remarkably different about having a boy, at least not in the first ten  months.

Is God a chauvinist?

There’s been a lot of press in recent years regarding women who are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints seeking priesthood ordination.  I’m not sure how much of it has garnered national attention-it might just be isolated to LDS circles and/or news outlets in areas where a high percentage of members of the church dwell.  Regardless, I feel like I need to insert my two cents, not only so I can put down on paper how I feel about the issue, but to clarify for my friends who are not members of the LDS church that not all Mormon women share the same views on this topic.