Why binders of women was such a curious thing for a Mormon to say- binders used for extra wives
http://jezebel.com/5952656/why-binders-full-of-women-was-such-a-curious-thing-for-a-mormon-to-sayby Tracie Egan Morrissey
"Binders full of women" struck such a chord with the Internet after Mitt Romney said it during last night's debate, because it's just a really weird thing to say. It conjures up the mental image of a man sifting through the pages of a homemade catalog of females, as though he's lady-shopping. It's kind of creepy, and maybe you couldn't put your finger on exactly why. But maybe it's because before this, "binders full of women" already had some association with creepiness, and like Romney, with Mormonism.
Known as the "joy book," it's a register that the FLDS prophet allegedly keeps of girls who are eligible for marriage, most of whom are underage, and it serves as a dating pool for fundamentalist Mormon men looking to add more wives to their homes. While the "joy books" have been discussed by members of the faith that had fled their compounds before being married off to older men without their consent, they were most famously featured on an episode of Big Love, in which they're depicted, quite literally, as binders full of young women.
Obviously, while Romney is Mormon, he's not part of the FLDS sect, and he didn't mean to imply that his own "binders full of women" was at all sexual. But religious affiliation aside, it still means that, kind of like those FLDS men, Romney has trouble meeting women. It's really unsettling to think that he felt like he hadn't come across any femalesin all of his 65 yearsthat was qualified enough to appoint to his cabinet, that he would even need those binders."
Here's a scene from Big Love showing the binder full of young women/girls:
genna
(1,945 posts)If Mormons do this to young girls anywhere in the u.s., isn't this like kiddie peddling?
What business do adult men have to have a binder filled with pictures of underaged girls?
alsame
(7,784 posts)sexual assault against minors (among other charges). He was facilitating 'marriages' between grown men and young girls.
OregonBlue
(7,754 posts)yurbud
(39,405 posts)flamingdem
(39,313 posts)fasttense
(17,301 posts)The whole thing is just very creepy. The way Mitt Romney said it. Instead of saying he had a listing of fully qualified women, he had to say binders of women. As if the women were inside the binders just waiting for some pervert to set them free.
It's just more objectifying of women by RepubliCONS.
And he lied and claimed it was his idea to get this binder full of women. I'll bet.
alsame
(7,784 posts)binders of resumes or lists of qualified women. Aside from the lie about the request, the phrase was as weird as everything else about him.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)... Got women? Yup. Ignore the vulture capitalist behind the curtain.
Hestia
(3,818 posts)Glad someone else made the connection.
FreeState
(10,572 posts)its quite a stretch to be honest - Warren Jeffs is so far removed from the the mainstream church it would be like saying Joe Biden gets his ideas from Bill Donohue. The FLDS are a very small cult that nearly all LDS members have no knowledge of outside of that he is a polygamist.
Canuckistanian
(42,290 posts)With the resultant effect of the appearance of acceptance of the FLDS "lifestyle".
Octafish
(55,745 posts)The language came naturally.
milestogo
(16,829 posts)underpants
(182,807 posts)this is bizarre but then so is Mitt.
Overseas
(12,121 posts)underthematrix
(5,811 posts)who will turn 66 two months after he is sworn into office. He will be almost 70 years when he finishes his first term. To me, he seems like a severely conservative doddering old fool who has 10 working digits to sign Grover Norquist policies into law. It seems to me on the surface (because as Gloria Allred would attest you never know what peeps do behind closed doors) mittnocchio is guided by his cultist beliefs and what he is hiding is his extremism. I cannot imagine this nutjob in the White House.