I would say the majority of 20 year old men in the US want a Stepford type wife with a great rack and a nice ass. Mind boggling?
Great body yes; Stepford, no. Even most shallow men at least fantasize about a woman who loves, or at least lusts after him; not an automaton.
I chuckled.
Are we still talking about Mormon women?
The magic underwear are starting to make more sense.
A lot of Mormons are descended from Danish immigrants (Danish Immigration and Life in Utah) And Danes of course are the happiest people on Earth (Denmark: The Happiest Place on Earth). So Mormons are happy not because they are Mormons, but because they are Danes. Who wouldn’t be.
Whoah. That was fascinating. Thanks, Rune!
That was actually pretty hilarious. ROFL
Hell yes. Here is the page for the Idaho version, a quick Google found one in Hawaii also. Everyone wants to go the SLC, of course, but there are others.
This might be a happy Mormon family.
The main campus of BYU is in Provo UT, which is about 50 miles from downtown Salt Lake City.
ETA—and I guess while I am at it, it’s Weber State, not Weaver State.
So Mormonism is how Romney got ‘turned out’ as the flip-flopper of all flip-floppers. Huh.
Are Mormons all that happy? Probably not, but not miserable either.
On the one side of the ledger, you have a strong community and social support network. There’s also a sense of certainty; everything has answer. I’m not certain, but I’d assume the rates of alcohol abuse are lower, and fewer cigarettes mean you’ll live longer (although that may be balanced out by obesity).
On the other hand, you have a grinding pressure to conform, an obscene number of hours per week given over to various meetings and assignments, 10% of your income, and constant pressure to live up to an impossible standard. Less money, less free time, more guilt/shame. Plus you are constantly exhorted to set an example for your non-Mormon friends and neighbors, to show them how wonderful it is to be Mormon.
I miss the social aspects a lot. Man is a social animal and human interaction is an important element to happiness and sanity. However, if that social network is mostly interested in controlling your behavior for their own ends, then it is no longer a net positive.
No one in my family was happy being Mormon except my mother. It was a source of my misery, but you learn to lie and put on a false face as to not draw suspicion…
Not mormons.
Can you tell what system of faith they might be practicing? I got the impression they were Mormon but not polygamous, because there is only one wife who apparently bore all those children.
Baptist.
my thought as well when reading that post.
(descended from a Danish Mormon)
Me, I’d probably crack a smile more often once I realized “Hey, the church isn’t going to pressure me into taking a second wife… sweet!”
One of my friends says that there’s a high rate of drug abuse among Mormon teens, as well as a very high rate of meth abuse. She also said that yes, things are very superfical and Stepford wive-ish in Utah.
I love you. This actually answers a few questions in my genealogical tree, thanks for posting it. 