Spoof or not?

Perhaps I should begin with thanks to those of you who have had the patience and endurance to keep plowing through the innumerable deliberate spelling mistakes and grammatical gaffes of the HoneyDawn blog! Was it a spoof? The answer is both yes, and no. Thank you to those who played along with the joke. It was fun, and also therapeutic for me. I really was a "polygamy gal". After leaving my polygamous community I had no wish to go into victim mode. Instead I decided to process my experiences and the experiences of other plural wives through this very silly blog. HoneyDawn, although amusing to some extent, was in fact a malicious and manipulating woman who caused a great deal of harm to the women whose lives she impacted. And yes Melissa, I do know the meaning of Pratt in Australia - the choice of name was deliberate! I chose to try to laugh at some people rather than being eaten up with anger at some of the harm that had been done and was still being done by them to people close to me. I chose to portray the idiocy of some of the practice and beliefs.


The saying goes that "truth is stranger than fiction". Although I am aware that many will find this hard to believe, the majority of what I have written is based on actual occurrences - things that happened either to me or women I have known. The camping trip really happened - the honey left outside the tent did not! (I had actually fantasized about tying a steak to HoneyDawn's tent!) Even the insane "Lizard people" theory was actually proposed to me when I went to dinner with a rather sweet couple one evening. It was hard to keep a straight face and nod politely as they seriously told me about it.

Some of what I wrote made me cringe - in particular the beliefs about African Americans. The comment about Martin Luther King as "Martin Lucifer King" is appalling, but I really did hear that expression from one of the "bretheren" and it appalled me then as it does now. I hate writing some things but felt compelled to do so to paint an accurate picture.

I have tried to be absolutely accurate about the doctrines of Mormonism and Fundamentalist Mormonism. None of that is made up. The only fantasy is the actual day to day occurrences in the family upon which I hung all the crazy things I heard and was taught over a long period of time.

Harmonee, dear Harmonee has been my own voice throughout. She is a mixture of myself and another questioning woman in a plural situation.