She was such a Molly. Imagine her marrying a bishop’s kid…
Posted in Mormon Humor, Missionary Folklore on May 28th, 2007 6 Comments »
While we often talk about stereotypes as a bad thing and are encouraged to get rid of them, as a folklorist I find stereotypes fascinating. They encode a lot of cultural knowledge that is useful (either practically, or for purposes of understanding culture). If one take the evolutionary position of memetics, these stereotypes persist because […]
