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In Reply to: Women in positions of power in TF posted by Observer on January 23, 2006 at 11:48:36:
Getting in bed with Berg seemed to be the way women rose to power in the early days. Deborah's story about being raised to Queen, then being approached by her father for sex, and her subsequent fall from power pretty much detail how it worked depending on how much the woman decided to put out. Berg seemed to like Keda because she was deviant and could be used to humiliate both the men & the women.
I think there are a lot of women in positions of power now, particularly in the prophesy end of the business. The stuff TFI publishes as "revelation" strikes me as either gynocentric (Loving Jesus) or ladies' romance (Heavenly Birthdays!). The spirit helpers tend to lack testosterone. Not a single lusty Abrahim in the bunch.
Several people who have met a number of young men raised in TFI have remarked that many seem effeminate compared to Systemites their age. I'm not sure what to make of that observation, but some people speculate that it has to do with being overtly sexualized by their mothers.
I read somewhere (probably Movingon) that there are significantly more young women left in TFI than young men, because the young men have left in greater numbers. Loving Jesus is particularly hard doctrine for young men to swallow. (No pun intended.) Makes sense, and given the greater propensity of women to affiliate and stay close to home--particularly if they also have young children--I would imagine that TFI is dominated by female leadership at many levels.
