Jessa Duggar: "Off the Market"

[agent46]

Jessa Duggar, Borg designation: 3 of 19 - daughter of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar is "off the market."

Women as property. Nice.

Apparently, Ben is the first man to pass the family muster and make it this far in a relationship with Jessa. However, don’t expect a makeout session anytime soon as Jessa is saving her first kiss for marriage.

“They want to wait on the physical relationship until later,” said Michelle. “If there is an engagement that comes about, they will work together on their goals and standards for that.”

Jessa, along with three of her sisters – Jana, Jill and Jinger – recently wrapped up a book called “Growing Up Duggar,” which will be released next year and will detail “their thoughts about boys and what goes into deciding who and when to marry.”

http://xfinity.comcast.net/blogs/tv/2013/09/17/jessa-duggar-suitor-saving-kissing-for-marriage/

The question remains though: Which one of the lovely Duggar girls will be the first to wind up junked out on ruffies and puking her guts out with Vin Diesel at the Viper Room?

[JI7]

1. how far in the relationship ? if they wont even kiss until after marriage

they reached the holding hands stage or something ?

[AZ Mike]

2. She looks biracial.

Mama's baby, papa's maybe?

I'm half white and Mexican and my wife is black. Jessa looks like she could be ours.

[struggle4progress]

3. meh. i don't understand these folk, and in light of my views on over-population i'm certainly not

going to promote their views, but she's a 20yo kid and i'm inclined to think she can arrange her life however she wants

the parental involvement in the "courtship" seems odd to me, but she's of legal age, and it's really just none of my business: humans have been deciding for millennia how to hook up without my input, and i don't think most of them suddenly require it today

[cbayer]

4. I've never paid any attention to these people, but what does this have to do with religion?

[agent46]

5. The Duggars

The Duggars represent a current in American religious trends substantial enough to support a reality tv series and corporate sponsored features in the mainstream media. This has nothing to do with religion really, but a lot to do with what many Americans have been led to believe religion is all about.

Fundamentalism has long been encouraged by the corporatocracy. People like the Duggars are easily manipulated to follow authoritarian figures who use religious imagery as triggers.

Easily manipulated, that is, until the meltdown that follows.

[cbayer]

6. Is there a religious trend towards having bigger families?

I've not seen that before.

I did some research and see that the Duggars describe themselves as fundamentalists, but I can't find anything on a trend.

[trotsky]

7. This recovering Quiverfull mom says it is:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/what-is-quiverfull/

I don't know if her personal testimony (as well as multiple hits on Google reporting on the growth of the Quiverfull movement) will have as much affect on your judgment as a single 5-year-old Internet survey, but I've submitted it for your consideration.

[Heddi]

8. This is obviously a case of

"I haven't heard of it / seen it / experienced it therefore it doesn't exist, and i will call into question any proof have about its existence because I haven't heard of it / seen it / experienced it..."

[Iggo]

9. "The Market"....ew.