Thanks for posting this.
I have been to BG’s seminars and am familiar with the patriarchal kind of thinking that pervades homeschooling.
There are plenty of homeschoolers who you can tell fit the profile.
The women and girls are always wearing long denim skirts, dirty running shoes, have long hair that is usually in desperate need of combing and rebraiding. To a degree, it is a stereotype, but it’s often a very justified one.
One of the comments I got regularly from non-homeschooling people was *You don’t LOOK like homeschoolers* and I knew EXACTLY what they were referring to.
Yes, the kind of stuff Gothard promoted was very legalistic.
I read his stuff on how to resolve conflict one time and found that it was so in depth and detailed and burdensome, that I thought that I could spend the rest of my life just digging up my past to make things *right*. It would literally consume the rest of my life just doing that alone in the way he prescribed.
At that point, I realized how off the mark he was.
I’ve never understood the denim skirt thing. They’re hot and uncomfortable and take forever to dry after washing. (Don’t get me started on jeans ...).
If you want to wear a long skirt or dress, why not a pretty, lightweight cotton-blend print?