So, my read on the Allie Beth Stuckey TPSUSA thing, if anyone saw her getting chewed out.
I think this is where the evangelical movement trying to get men in the door at all costs has gotten us. The new ideal of the evangelical man is a little boy.
The problem with audience
I think this is where the evangelical movement trying to get men in the door at all costs has gotten us. The new ideal of the evangelical man is a little boy.
The problem with audience
chasing and specifically chasing a young male audience is pretty clear now. If you look at the landscape of right wing and evangelical media for men right now, it's increasingly looking like a race to the bottom. People have figured out you can get more listeners than the other
guy if you appeal to an even more entitled and even lazier listenership than the person next to you. I had my issues with things like Promise Keepers but to their credit, they did expect men to do things.
Now if you listen to most of the Moscow people, it really sounds like
Now if you listen to most of the Moscow people, it really sounds like
they're mostly trying to appeal to insolent third graders.
No, you should not be expected to do more than you did when you were eight (go to 7.5-8 hours of another responsibility and play), no you should be getting taken care of by your spouse, no you don't have to thank her,
No, you should not be expected to do more than you did when you were eight (go to 7.5-8 hours of another responsibility and play), no you should be getting taken care of by your spouse, no you don't have to thank her,
no it's everyone else's fault you aren't living like this, you should have all the toys you want and all the entertainment you want and everyone should be taking care of you all the time and treating you like you're the most special boy and you shouldn't have to work for it.
I think when you look at the Brian Sauves of the world, that's mostly who their audience is. Guys who want to be eight for ever (but they want to add in sex.)
So, yeah. I think Stuckey is behind the times and she got to TPUSA and she told men to have responsibilities
So, yeah. I think Stuckey is behind the times and she got to TPUSA and she told men to have responsibilities
and be disciplined and she got absolutely wrecked for it because she didn't realize that men go to TPUSA to be told to be eight year olds. That's the new evangelical dream. That's what the new Christian man is. Eight. He doesn't want to hear about his responsibilities.
He wants to hear about his entitlements.
So when people talk about young men going to church more and joining religious movement more, I have to admit it makes me a little anxious. I don't know if that's conversion or if a critical mass of Christian speakers have finally found a
So when people talk about young men going to church more and joining religious movement more, I have to admit it makes me a little anxious. I don't know if that's conversion or if a critical mass of Christian speakers have finally found a
low enough rung to get people in the door en masse.
I don't want to live in a country of men who think they're eight years old. But I'm increasingly afraid that's where we're headed.
I don't want to live in a country of men who think they're eight years old. But I'm increasingly afraid that's where we're headed.
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