Original post: https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/stop-shaming-men
Archive post: https://archive.ph/JzmQy
It’s one of the most well known facts in social science that women initiate the vast majority of divorces – around 70% or so depending on the source you look at. It’s a fact I have never heard an evangelical pastor mention. In fact, as one feminist scholar found in her academic research, in evangelical sermons ‘women are framed primarily as receivers of divorce rather than initiators.’ And, while there have been improvements, divorce court and child custody practices still favor women. . . . It’s also worth asking what Blake – and by extension the rest of the evangelical leadership class – are doing to reduce these risks, help men manage them, or to create an environment in which men have a better chance of marital success. The answer is basically nothing. . . . They could tell men, “Get married and we’ve got your back.” But they don’t. Instead, should some man actually get married and any troubles arise, they will almost certainly blame him for it.”
Evangelicals, is there nothing they can't fuck up?
Have I ranted yet about how much I hate right wingers these days? This kind of shaming language is very common with them. Especially the boomers and generation x types who don't fucking get how lucky they were to even be able to find their wives in school or in university. It really isn't just the evangelicals.
This is why I always do have a degree of respect for Count Dankula and Sargon of Akkad, because they fucking get it. Sargon especially gets it even though he's a typical generation x guy that's living in his family life bubble because he's seen what younger men are going through when it comes to feminists and women who buy into their bullshit.
Again, it's not just evangelicals, they're certainly the worse and low hanging fruit, but right wing men especially come across to me like borderline male feminists except they often tend to be married and are lecturing men from a position of extreme safety.
Evangelicals are not right wing. They all love the blacking of America. Not one evangelical church calls for the removal of brown people. Stop blaming the right you fucking communist.
#NotRealRightWingers
Evangelicals really aren't right wing because it's not a political movement. There are plenty of Evangelicals who lefties like you.
It's not specifically the right-wing as a political ideology and movement so much as specific cultural groups that have tended to nest and reside there for about a century or more that are the problem. Which doesn't necessarily make up or represent the right wing as a whole at all.
It's a little too easy to jump to ranting about the whole wing instead of those individual subsections. I used to do that a lot, and sometimes have to correct myself when I accidentally slip into it.
Evangelicals are certainly the most obvious and easiest to name though, since they're so consistently loud and unison in their judgemental sentiments and ideology. And their eagerness to wield and utilize power to shove that ideology down other peoples' throats.
Pretty much the Ori from Stargate (though some mistake the Ori as being a play on Christianity as a whole, which is an overly simplistic take I totally disagree with. Regardless of what the show's writers intentions were.).
You’ve ranted quite a bit about them actually.