Mormon moms are taking it off for charity and embracing euphemism and domesticity in a fell swoop with the upcoming Hot Mormon Muffins: A Taste of Motherhood calendar.
On the heels of the gay boys fave calendar featuring repression in a pretty package, Men on a Mission calendars, Mormons Exposed announced it would release a 2010 calendar featuring sexy Mormon moms shot in a "playful vintage pinup style."
Proceeds from the calendar will benefit breast cancer, an idea inspired by a few of the Mormon mom models who've survived or been touched by the disease in their families.
While it's tough to dispute the inherent kitsch and playfulness in a calendar featuring women typically reputed to be repressed and stripped of their agency as individuals, Mormons Exposed appears to have missed it's mark, touting the calendar -- in a press release -- as, "...a vehicle to create dialog and deliberately debunk the subservient stereotypes of women's roles within the Mormon Church, the sexy new calendar celebrates the great looks, beautiful bodies and delicious muffin recipes of these unconventional Latter-day Saint moms."
Women clad in aprons and oven mitts, cleavages heaving and wielding greased-up muffin pans in the name of philanthropy could be construed as reclaiming power but it's hardly on par with the hunky boys back returning triumphantly from missionary work that the Men on a Mission calendar depicts. The last time we checked, women-in-the-kitchen narratives were fairly de rigueur and hardly a fulcrum to debunk stereotypes of subservient women.
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