Cate Eland

A Proverbs 31 woman is not a woman who brings no income into the household and struggles to get her family through financial hardship. She has her own money. She's buying land, establishing and running vineyards. She engages in trade.

A parable that explicitly talks about how a woman makes money for her family has become an admonition to young women who dare to violate their husband's physical, financial, and spiritual sovereignty over them, and instead to work themselves to the bone and be grateful for what little they have.

A Proverbs 31 woman is not a woman who brings no income into the household and struggles to get her family through financial hardship. She has her own money. She's buying land, establishing and running vineyards. She engages in trade.

It's not directly stated that servants care for her children while she's taking care of the business of running her household, because it's not needed. She's rich. No one expects her to spend her days caring for children. They expect her to spend her days keeping her family rich...

A Proverbs 31 woman is not a woman who brings no income into the household and struggles to get her family through financial hardship. She has her own money. She's buying land, establishing and running vineyards. She engages in trade.

And you know what's not mentioned even once in Proverbs 31? Hands-on childcare. She buys and spin wools and flax, then sells the excess for profit. She rises early to ensure her household is fed. She runs her own agriculture ventures, oversees trade, and literally keeps the light in her home on.

A Proverbs 31 woman is not a woman who brings no income into the household and struggles to get her family through financial hardship. She has her own money. She's buying land, establishing and running vineyards. She engages in trade.

I've seen folks explain away the work the actual Proverbs 31 woman did by saying, "But she worked at home! And most of the work she did herself with her children! She wasn't leaving her children with strangers, and she was content to be a homemaker!" The woman was running multiple *businesses*.

A Proverbs 31 woman is not a woman who brings no income into the household and struggles to get her family through financial hardship. She has her own money. She's buying land, establishing and running vineyards. She engages in trade.

Yes, she's industrious, but her industriousness is not limited to her own home and is not restricted to labor that does not earn income. With *her* earnings, she keeps her household running well with fine things and adds to her husband's business enterprises.

A Proverbs 31 woman is not a woman who brings no income into the household and struggles to get her family through financial hardship. She has her own money. She's buying land, establishing and running vineyards. She engages in trade.

There is speculation that the Zerrusen family, owners of Three Z Printing, who are heavy Republican donors, might be the ones behind actually printing the mailer pretending to be from an organization protecting trans children. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...

Here's a piece on one of the right-wingers speculated to be behind the fake "Dallas Justice Now" group, Monty Bennet. Bennet owns a media group that's gobbled up or created out of whole cloth hundreds of local news sites that generate pro-Republican propaganda. www.texasobserver.org/dallas-hero-...

There is speculation that the Zerrusen family, owners of Three Z Printing, who are heavy Republican donors, might be the ones behind actually printing the mailer pretending to be from an organization protecting trans children. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...

It's been interesting to watch how quickly the mental goal posts have moved regarding the "we're transing YOUR children!" mailers that went out last week. MAGA has gone from, "OMG! They're transing our children!" to "It doesn't matter who sent the mailers. They're still transing our children."

Republicans will defend *anything*, which I guess isn't surprising given the decade of gleeful support they've given Trump's virulent bigotry, history of rape, and close ties to and cover up of a massive trafficking ring of underage girls.

It's been interesting to watch how quickly the mental goal posts have moved regarding the "we're transing YOUR children!" mailers that went out last week. MAGA has gone from, "OMG! They're transing our children!" to "It doesn't matter who sent the mailers. They're still transing our children."