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RE: "Men Cause 100% of Unwanted Pregnancies" - Clover - Feb 11 2025
(Feb 11 2025, 4:32 PM)ShameMustChangeSidesThis, it's the "pleasant face" part from what I can tell. Mormons are very good at having an almost creepy smiley saccharine-sweet way about them. I think there's some joke about how because Mormons can't have drugs and that includes caffeine, that they compensate by overloading on sugar. Crumbl Cookies was created by Mormons and I'm not surprised, since the desserts chain is known for being obscenely sugary sweet lol.(Feb 11 2025, 3:26 PM)YesYourNigel [...][...]
I had no idea about this Mormonism thing, and it absolutely sounds fucked up. I wonder why women are more attracted to it. Is it just the usual patriarchal brainwashing making them more vulnerable to religious authority? Or is it uniquely more attractive to them than other sects? Alternatively, is it unrelated to female numbership and instead due to being uniquely offputting to men compared to other sects? Like if female membership remains static but male drops, it would still look like women are more attracted to it, when it's really just that men are less attracted to it, woth no effect on female membership.
Most women who are in it were raised in it, and for those who convert, the aspects that are highly emphasized are the family friendliness. That is what appeals to most people who weren't raised in the faith. Mormonism puts on a very pleasant face to prospective tithe-payers, and only those who dig a bit find the ugly underneath.
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That's probably also the reason the Netflix documentary exposing an [extra-]culty branch of Mormonism was named "Keep Sweet".
I think it's literally just how nicey-nice they act and appear on the surface. It's a corrupt patriarchal religion/cult completely coated in sugar.