“Prairie Muffins” disdain birth control, “have aprons and know how to use them,” and “do not idolize Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) or Louisa May Alcott (Little Women); while they may enjoy aspects of home life presented in their books, PMs understand that the latent humanism and feminism in these stories and in the lives of these women is not worthy of emulation.”<\/p>\n
It’s all in the Prairie Muffin Manifesto<\/a>.<\/p>\n Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/a> was a dangerous secular humanist. Who would have thought it?<\/p>\n (Via God and Consequences<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Tags: Laura Ingalls Wilder<\/a>, Louisa May Alcott<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Prairie Muffins” disdain birth control, “have aprons and know how to use them,” and “do not idolize Laura Ingalls Wilder (Little House on the Prairie) or Louisa May Alcott (Little Women); while they may enjoy aspects of home life presented in their books, PMs understand that the latent humanism and feminism in these stories and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s6xQTg-525","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":435,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=435","url_meta":{"origin":525,"position":0},"title":"The Eighteenth Century goes to\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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