"What's on the shelves of the popular Christian parenting resources library today? What's a girl to do by Douglas Phillips a vision forum? Let's take a closer look. We've talked before about the vision forum ideals and aesthetics. They're dominionist. They're patriarchal They appeal to longings for an earlier time period of history in an aspirational view of history So you see a lot of nods to classical art on their products So here they've chosen a wistful looking young girl looking up maybe looking for help with a dog right near It's a curious choice, but I want to look at the subtext how to wisely invest your daughter's time So certainly here we yes this this product is marketed toward parents But certainly here there's an assumption that a daughter will not have agency investing her time It will be up to her parents to wisely invest it So there's also a kind of paternalistic approach or an infantilization of a daughter But what we see on the back that even though it's not surprising from this subculture that there's a father's knows best Approach it's really going to be a vision forum knows best They are going to tell the parents the best approach and they're going to use spiritual authority language to do it The Bible offers clear guidelines This is what wise parents will choose and will result in choosing virtue for the glory of God with eternal stakes This is set up as a response to the threat of feminism and you'll see in the last line That there's an appeal to young women actually like if you truly want to cultivate virtue and exercise your gifts You'll listen to us"