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Middlemarch (Illustrated) | George Eliot

Chapter 1: we meet the Brooke sisters, Dorothea and Cecelia. Be sure and tag me so I can see your book cover, there are so many! #Distheplainone #Cisthefancyone #Distheonlyonewhothinkssheisplain #Cwantsalllllllthejewels #Dlikestheemeralds #samegirlsame #pemberlittens #buddyread #chapteraday

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BarkingMadRead @TheBookHippie @ravenlee @IndoorDame @Daisey @Bklover @kspenmoll @AllDebooks 2y

TheBookHippie Today is our opening presents day so I‘m reading tonight! I‘ll be back! ♥️ 2y

BarkingMadRead @rubyslippersreads @peanutnine @Addison_Reads @kwmg40 @LitStephanie @julieclair @MoonWitch94 @Larkken @JamieArc @RebelReader @jhod @daena 2y

JamieArc Looking forward to snuggling in to read my chapter tonight. I did order a pretty edition so it‘ll help make me want to pick it up. 2y

BarkingMadRead @JamieArc I love pretty books!! 2y

Bklover I suppose it is way too early to think D is a bit of a weirdo. 2y

Deblovestoread The problem with too many books…you can‘t find a book you know you own…I will be getting a late start 🤦🏻‍♀️ 2y

BarkingMadRead @Bklover I thought the same thing! #daddyissues @Deblovestoread I feel that in my soul! 2y

MoonWitch94 @Bklover @BarkingMadRead I thought so, too. I‘m hoping it changes….. 2y

CoffeeNBooks @Bklover I can't decide yet if she's a weirdo, or if she's trying to live up to what she thinks is the expectation of utmost propriety for the time. Although, still a bit of a weirdo- Celia definitely doesn't seem as strange. 😄 2y

Clare-Dragonfly I have read this book a couple times but I have no idea who this illustration is supposed to be 😆 I don‘t remember ANY of the women having much to do with horses! 2y

Clare-Dragonfly P. S. Dorothea is totally a weirdo and I love her. 2y

BarkingMadRead @Clare-Dragonfly this was the chapter opener in my book 🤣 I guess because they keep saying Dorothea looks great on a 🐎🤣 2y

DebinHawaii I‘m going to try with a cheap Dover Classics on Kindle for now. Can you add me to the tags, please? 🤗 2y

TheAromaofBooks Oh my gosh! I totally forgot about this buddy read!!! Off to read chapter one 😂 2y

Bookwormjillk The thing I loved about this chapter was how much we learned about the sisters by seeing how they divided up the jewelry. I don‘t have a good cover to share, just a kindle version. 2y

BarkingMadRead @Bookwormjillk yes! The way they interacted with each other said so much! 2y

JamieArc Dorothea on horseback riding: “she felt she enjoyed it in a pagan, sensuous way, and always looked forward to renouncing it.” This line made me chortle 🤭 2y

BarkingMadRead @JamieArc such a good line 2y

RebelReader I think I already like this one more than Villette and I like Dorothea mostly because she is weird and different from Cecelia 2y

Bklover @RebelReader I agree. May make this one more interesting! 2y

Aimeesue Oh, Dodo, piety is all well and good, but such strict adherence to it doesn't often lead to a happy life, I think. Live a little! Enjoy the emeralds! (Exposing myself as a hedonist right at the start, I suppose, but life is meant to be ENJOYED, is it not?) (edited) 2y

TheBookHippie @JamieArc my favorite part!!! Spit my coffee out laughing 😝😵‍💫🤯 2y

TheBookHippie @Aimeesue I agree. Don‘t be so boxed in. 2y

TheBookHippie @BarkingMadRead 🤣🤣🤣👀 2y

rubyslippersreads So far, I kind of want to smack Dorothea, and I think that feeling will only intensify as I keep reading. 😏 2y

BarkingMadRead @rubyslippersreads 🤣🤣🤣 2y

LitStephanie @Bklover oh no I don't think it's too early. 😆 2y

julieclair @JamieArc I loved that line!! 😂 Maybe she will look forward to renouncing the emeralds, too, but wear them in the meantime! 😉 2y

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GingerAntics

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!! THIS. IS. DISGUSTING!!!
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #daddyissues #childabuse #disgusting #taxes #iwantmymoneyback

Amandajoy 🤦🏼‍♀️. There‘s really nothing else to say. 5y

GingerAntics @Amandajoy right? I‘m not sure I have words. Just... 🤦🏼‍♀️. And maybe “I want my money back.” 5y

Amandajoy Yes. There‘s something I‘d really like my taxes not to go to. 5y

GingerAntics @Amandajoy I‘d like to have my tax money not go to some other things as well, but this just about tops the list. 5y

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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

Finally, someone said it. This seriously sounds like some of these dudes (fathers?) aren‘t going to see the line they should never cross...seeing that this madness is actually taking their hands and guiding them across it.
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #daddyissues

CarolynM Good for Judith Warner! 5y

Ericalambbrown I‘m convinced a lot of dads aren‘t down with this purity culture either but they are being told to be a good dad they must take ownership of their daughters‘ bodies. They go through the motions for this crap to keep from being ostracized or to keep their daughters in the “in crowd” at church. It‘s such an unhealthy atmosphere all around. I‘ve talked to guys who left too because of this nonsense just like I did. 5y

GingerAntics @CarolynM right? I‘m reading this thinking, “someone had to point this out to you?” Then they go off and deny all of this because it just doesn‘t fit their creepy world view. 5y

GingerAntics @Ericalambbrown once again, you have restored my faith in humanity and human decency when it comes to this conservative bullsh. I am so relieved to hear some fathers are walking away. I wish the ones who weren‘t comfortable with it would have the courage to speak up. I think anyone with half a brain can see how unhealthy it is. It‘s like brainwashing. It‘s so disturbing. 5y

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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

How is this not creepy?! SO many red flags here!!! I‘ve never been more relieved to have grown up without a father. This is just disgusting.
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #daddyissues

Bklover Makes my stomach turn a bit. 5y

Eggbeater Because it IS creepy. My dad was a single dad when I was a teenager. We went everywhere together. Never was it referred to as dating. That would have made us both sick. 5y

CarolynM O. M. G!!! That is horrifying! It is wrong and damaging on so many levels. If I start trying to express all the problems I have with this I will be here all day. Just UGH!!! And😡😡😡😡😡 5y

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GingerAntics @Eggbeater EXACTLY!!! He may have taken you out for ice cream or a meal, but it wasn‘t dating. GROSS!!! I‘m all about taking children out for a meal or something special to celebrate birthdays or achievements, especially one on one (or just with both parents and the one kid) if there are multiple children in a family, but this is disgusting. 5y

GingerAntics @CarolynM @Bklover yes, to all of that. All of the above. This book enrages me. I‘m hoping it gets more hopefully soon. 5y

CarolynM Fathers treating their daughters as individuals of worth is one thing, this is something altogether different. In my view it's likely to create narcissistic princesses rather than women with self esteem. 5y

GingerAntics @CarolynM oh, they‘re not concerned with self-esteem or self-worth. They talk about virginity as their self-worth and their identity. It‘s just disgusting. This entire thing is a psychological nightmare. I‘m beginning to think it‘s bordering on child abuse. 5y

alisiakae Do not get me started on Focus in the Family. Some of the things I see here in the South (we moved here in 2011) just boggles my mind. The “dating” terminology drives me nuts (same with fathers “babysitting” their kids). 5y

GingerAntics @4thhouseontheleft we moved here in 2000 and we‘ve had enough. How does a father “babysit” his own children. That‘s called parenting!!! 🤦🏼‍♀️ 5y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Healthy fathers are great, including my own now deceased and my sons. He really did teach me how to be a strong independent woman. I miss his advice terribly to this very day. I very much understand though that every one was not as blessed. However, this certainly does not reflect fatherhood. 5y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads And I was born and raised in the South but as a psychologist for many many years I know that pathology is not localized nor is it according to gender 5y

GingerAntics @Joyfulmimi oh no, this book point blank says that these balls and these ideas are happening in every state now. I completely agree that this is not healthy fatherhood in any way, shape, or form. 5y

DrSabrinaMoldenReads And you know what @gingerantics? These girls are more likely to have sex. Oh yea! It‘s going on alright and it‘s a farce. 5y

GingerAntics @Joyfulmimi yeah they are! It‘s a fact. These girls are more likely to not use protection because they feel like that‘s planning ahead and that would be worse than “accidentally” getting carried away. 🙄 Farce is the PERFECT word for the whole thing. 5y

readordierachel YIKES. I was subjected to a lot of Focus on the Family as a kid, but thank the stars my dad never tried to date me. This is appalling. 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel you wouldn‘t have found it sweet? They claim good Christian girls LOVE their fathers‘ dating them. 5y

readordierachel Nope, nope, nope. I wasn't a good Christian girl then and as an atheist I'm sure not one now. 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel 🤣😂🤣 you and me both. Do your parents try to convince you you‘re not actually an atheist, like mine? 🤣😂🤣 5y

readordierachel That must drive you crazy!! Weirdly, my folks kinda backed off from religion not too long ago and my mom apologized to me for "drinking the kool aid" (her actual words) for so long ?‍♀️? 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel wow!!! That‘s amazing. Yeah, I don‘t think that‘s happening at my house. I tend to get more of the bait and switch madness. I figure I‘ll just keep my beliefs to myself at home. 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel in fact, I was really Christian at one point (I didn‘t even know how rigid I‘d become until someone said something after I started chilling out), and now I say I was drinking the kool aid. 5y

readordierachel We all drank it at some point. That's the point of indoctrination, right? 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel good point! They told us it was something else and we all drank happily. Luckily, we‘ve since stopped. I think I‘ve replaced it with the occasional arbour mist. 🤣 5y

readordierachel 😆😆😆 5y

GingerAntics @readordierachel actually, the more I think about it, I think I‘ve replaced it with Powerade zero. 🤣 (edited) 5y

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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🍷🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #daddyissues

Ericalambbrown Ahhhh, girls as property . . . So infuriating . . . 5y

GingerAntics @Ericalambbrown oh my god I want to punch some people in the face, reading this book. Seriously, I don‘t want my tax dollars going to this disgusting madness. 5y

Bklover Oh. My. God. 5y

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Ericalambbrown @GingerAntics It‘s bonkers. I was raised with the forerunner of this nonsense but missed the purity ball madness - or purity banquets because Southern Baptists don‘t dance. My daughter was born in 1998 and I got the hell out. 5y

GingerAntics @Ericalambbrown I‘ve been wondering if some of the people within these groups had children and went “nope. I‘m out.” That does make me feel better. 5y

GingerAntics @Bklover right? How do they not see the disturbing symbolism? How are they not grossed out. “God” does NOT want you doing this, I assure you. If your god wants you doing this madness, I don‘t want anything to do with your god. Thanks. *shudders* 5y

Bklover Neither do I. No thank you. 5y

CarolynM Speechless. This is grotesque. Maybe promising purity to their mothers would be better, after all, it's likely to be mum dealing with any emotional or other fall out if something goes wrong in the daughter's relationship. 5y

CarolynM Obviously, I don't really think anyone should be promising "purity". 5y

GingerAntics @CarolynM I think there is harm in calling virginity “purity” anyway. Somehow that makes sex “dirty,” and it‘s just not. Rape is wrong, it‘s terrible. Sexual abuse is wrong, it‘s terrible. Neither of those are sex to me, those are abuses of what is meant to be a good thing. I think we have to move away from calling it dirty. We‘ve got to stop calling genitals “dirty parts” or “nasty parts.” We‘ve got to grow up in how we deal with this. 5y

GingerAntics @CarolynM oh thank god. I was worried there for a minute. Exactly. It‘s just so problematic. 5y

CarolynM Yes to all of that. I was clumsily trying to point out that the choices girls make about their bodies are unlikely to have any real impact on their fathers but the more I think about it the more I realise this is another kind of stereotypical thinking on my part. Still, I would put money on 99% of the fathers who take part in these activities leaving the practical and emotional support of their daughters to females. 5y

GingerAntics @CarolynM I 100% agree with that. If you‘re willing to see your daughter this way, you‘re going to be the type to say “tears, this is your mother‘s department.” 5y

Butterfinger You teach me so much with your quotes. Talk of sex didn't happen in my family and I am glad I had that extreme over purity balls. 5y

GingerAntics @Butterfinger you were happy to go to purity balls? Plural? How many did you go to? 5y

Chrissyreadit @Butterfinger did you mean not discussing sex? And prefer that to purity balls? A giggled because I live with teens and so many conversations are about sex, inuendos about sex, jokes about sex. We can‘t discuss catching balls, throwing balls or playing with balls without someone bringing up sweaty balls. I keep explaining balls are balls and testes are testes... but they are not amused. 5y

Butterfinger Oh @GingerAntics you misunderstood. My extreme was not talking about sex. I have never heard of a purity balls till I read your quotes. 5y

Butterfinger @Chrissyreadit that is exactly what I meant. The idea of a purity ball is revolting to me. @GingerAntics just reread my statement. 5y

GingerAntics @Butterfinger thank god. I was really worried about you for a minute. Yeah, there are two extremes here and a lot of us experienced the opposite extreme of this, and I think that‘s just as damaging, if not in the same ways at all. 5y

GingerAntics @Chrissyreadit 🤣😂🤣 the mother of teens, I am so sorry. I‘m told this eventually passes. lol 5y

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The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women | Jessica Valenti

No, this isn‘t disturbing AF at all!!!
#ThePurityMyth #JessicaValenti #disgusting #perv #daddyissues

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erzascarletbookgasm

The Brothers Karamazov | Fyodor Dostoevsky

Oh, no! 🙅‍♀️These three brothers are NOT my #favoritefictionalsiblings !
They have a complicated relationship with each other, and their father. A very complex family. #NewHogwartsAdventure

This is not the edition I‘m reading from, but it‘s a #sizeable book. #SisforSeptember

#myvodkabromance