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Smart Talk SMART TALK By Dr. Viva Palaver
WORKING MOTHER: Dr. Shirley Glibb talked about the following incident in a session. As staff psychologist at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, I thought Dr. Glibb’s thoughts would be instructive, and I got her permission to share them.
Early this week, she came to me very angry. I was surprised that something in her church had upset her so. Usually, a rousing service at the Safe Haven Chapel of the Perfect Ideal lifted and energized her all week, in spite of her church’s name.
But this time, Elder Cyle Crisco had preached against working mothers. And he’d had the nerve to use the chapter in Proverbs about the perfect wife as his text. In that chapter, the wife achieves perfection thanks to nonstop labor, and Elder Crisco saw no irony.
“Don’t all mothers work?” Dr. Glibb fumed in my office. “They work their buns off even if they don’t have paying jobs! How repressive!”
This Sunday, Dr. Glibb plans to try Our Lady of Loving Disapproval.
Good luck, Shirl.
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