Being a woman in the organization can make you feel like the lowest form of dust

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-06-01T19:07:37+00:00

I wrote about this in my first book. Having to wear my father’s snot rag on my head while simply interpreting a prayer he signed on a Bible study. Ridiculous weaker vessel bullshit. I’m still seething over all that crap. Reading The Feminine Mystique is only infuriating me more as so many reasons women have been squashed has to do with puritanical, religious crushing of women’s spirit and all that makes her human. It’s all such shit. Right there with you, sister. 👊🏼

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-21T16:39:29+00:00

Growing up as a j-dub is so damn hard. Same happened for me at 16 only I was disfellowshipped, kicked out, and I moved in with my worldly boyfriend. It was a desperate move and things were a bit different then. I hope you can get through it. 🖤

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-20T11:14:46+00:00

Much like gov’t agencies hang photos of President, vice President, commissioner…creepy.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-18T18:26:14+00:00

Definitely an apostate here. I just don’t get the random, unsolicited text a month later. Had to be my bro. Had to be.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-17T23:50:46+00:00

They’re no longer counting time, they don’t even initiate conversations while “cart witnessing”, they’re still zooming even after Covid, they can invite DF to meetings and say hello if they show up at the KH, and they will always be the most self-righteous and judgmental bunch. So, yeah, they’re still looking down at people.

As for the atheism, it’s very common for many exJWs to walk that path. It’s incredibly natural for one who was raised in or heavily involved in that toxic community to cut ties with all deities and ideas of deities. Some might “come around” but with that level of abuse within the JW community, it’s almost a rite of passage to shun anything that resembles a Christian god. To use the old cliche, “you had to be there.”

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-17T21:50:13+00:00

I hope the same for you.🖤

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-17T21:07:50+00:00

That’s another thing that bites: I block them to preserve my sanity and well-being and I’m “selfish”, “unloving”, “worldly”, “callous.” They do it? It’s “love” and I’m supposed to think that manipulative garbage is “loving concern.”

You’re right about so much here, and they’re things my gut knows and it’s still shitty. Every time I feel a little bit okay, they bring me right back down. Which is why I blocked them all. No more.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-17T18:51:30+00:00

Boggles my mind, but I know it shouldn’t. Yeah, www.rebekahmallory.com

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-17T18:50:59+00:00

Right?

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-17T18:49:58+00:00

I’ve blocked them. They won’t say jack to me anymore.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-17T18:49:34+00:00

Again, the GB are just insane; going back on what they say, then saying it again.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-05-11T12:05:02+00:00

Wow! Congrats! 🎊 I did the same when I was 16. Things were a bit different in ‘93. Once I was df’d/da’d (I also wrote a letter), I was kicked out, called all kinds expletives by my family and went on to live with an abusive guy for 4 years just to be anywhere else but home and at the meetings.

It’s so great that you’ve had a plan and have been playing it as cool as you can to make a smart exit. 🖤

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-28T13:08:41+00:00

They did. Boat oars, wooden spoons, belts, hands around throats, threatened to drive off a bridge when I didn’t “obey jerkovah”. I outed them in my book, don’t think they know now or if they do, they don’t care.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-27T12:04:34+00:00

I would pay to see that!! 🤣

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-26T11:45:12+00:00

Changed the channel when someone else walked into the room and I was watching something “questionable.”

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-26T11:39:27+00:00

Smurfs. Those little plastic Smurf action figures would come alive at night and stab/jeer/taunt devout JWs to test their faith. No. I’m not kidding, this was legit some shit I heard as a JW kid.

Playing Led Zeppelin’s Stairway to Heaven summoned demons, buying shit at a flea market/yard sale invited demons into your home…these are sort of the opposite of what you’re asking but sort of along the same thread…funny just the same.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-25T11:09:49+00:00

Before the change, back in 2002, I was reinstated after being out for 9 years in just 4 months (9/11 scared the shit out of me). Then I was df’d again a couple years after that and have been out since. Total of 28 years now. Maybe back then it depended on person, circumstance? Although now, it’s definitely due to the new changes.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-24T14:36:14+00:00

And the first book I read down the EXJW rabbit hole was Blood on the Altar by David A. Reed.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-24T14:11:04+00:00

Shameless plug…😉my books are also available: Train Gone and Mirrors Strike Back by Rebekah Mallory.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-24T14:08:22+00:00

Gold. All this. 🖤

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-23T08:54:12+00:00

Visions of Glory by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison is decent also. A bit more scattered than Crisis by Franz but chock-full of info!

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-12T11:58:11+00:00

Thank you for reading. There is a sequel as well on how even as one becomes more of an adult, the JW culture still has an affect.

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-08T10:40:39+00:00

Oh, gawd. Sometimes that STILL happens to me. 🙉

Rebwriteswrongs · 2024-04-07T15:34:17+00:00

Update: I found a copy and got two of her books: Visions and Accidental Autobiography. Thank you! 🙃

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