Posted on 08/30/2002 6:46:34 AM PDT by victim soul
Jane and the real enemies.
Jane doesn't like Lisa Beamer.
You thought you'd never see that, eh? Someone who does not like the likes of Lisa Beamer, mother of three, widow of Todd Beamer, who was part of the brave passenger team that saved another designated American terrorist target and potentially hundreds or thousands of innocents from a death similar to those who died at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon last September 11? Beamer is a woman whose husband, prior to helping lead a team of passengers into the hijacked plane's cockpit, said the Lord's Prayer with a 911 operator, who, fortunately, was not a Jane reader.
Lisa Beamer has one overarching problem, though, which her husband clearly shared: She's Christian.
How did she end up in Jane? For their September issue (exquisite timing!), a reporter from this crude women's glossy "infiltrated" a Women of Faith conference. Women of Faith is a harmless — perhaps even spiritually enriching! — nondenominational Christian organization. They hold conferences at which thousands of women hear speakers talk about faith and life, listen to wholesome music, and meet some like-minded sisters. Nothing too dangerous.
Of course, Jane has a different take. Here's the set-up from their anniversary issue: "We infiltrated the sexist church of the Promise Keepers in our first issue. Now, their female flip side is even larger — thanks to whores, refurbished virgins and the militantly stupid."
The Women of Faith may not be everyone's cup of tea, but to Jane they're an enemy. They are the antithesis of Jane's don't-need-God-or-men message.
Here's how Jane writer Ellise Pierce interprets what she saw at the conference:
So, women need men to take care of them, and good men take care of their women. In a nutshell, that's Women of Faith's Promise Keepers-on-estrogen message: Just sit back, relax and give yourself over to a man, mortal or otherwise. As their glossy press kit says, it's "about liberating women — not through politics or legislation, but through faith in God. [It] helps women free themselves of struggles by helping them understand God loves them unconditionally.
Pretty bad stuff, or so Jane thinks. Pierce continues: "Sounds like the devil's work to me, especially when you consider that the organization was started by a man." So the devil is behind it!
More Pierce:
Last year, 375,000 women coughed up $67 a pop to take part, and Women of Faith attendees — including folks like WTC widow Lisa Beamer, who was there last fall — now outnumber Promise Keepers. This year's guest speakers are the missionary team of Heather Mercer and Dayna Curry, who even the Taliban couldn't stand. The soul-saving business, even in a suck-ass economy, is booming. Hallelujah.
There you have it: Christian American women are worse than the Taliban.
The bulk of the article is devoted to making fun of the simple women the Jane writer sat next to at lunch (people who attend schools like Ozark Christian College and Baylor) and the all-female Christian-pop group Point of Grace, whose members have never used drugs or alcohol and were virgins until they married.
Worse than terrorists, beyond a doubt.
PS - ALL the so-called "women's" magazines are like this - check out a copy of Harper's Bizarre sometime. An older issue dealt positively with a woman's book on her incestuous affair with her father.
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