"The day after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, Afghanistan’s Taliban offered its congratulations to the American people for 'not handing leadership of their great country to a woman.'”

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil Even then, I wonder. See Monica Potts' excellent book The Forgotten Girls on how women in the solid-red Southern evangelical-dominated states choose to vote against their interests and the interests of their daughters as they reinforce male control that harms them and their daughters.

Paxil

@wdlindsy Born and raised there I know all about it.

@wdlindsy

Always find it weird, or just outright dumb, that when women decide to have fewer children it is referred to as a decline in the fertility rate.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil Nothing like growing up in that environment to teach us some hard lessons about who many of us really are and what many of us really want, is there?

William Lindsey :toad:

@the5thColumnist Yes — and that hysteria on the part of men is usually focused on the choice of white women, in particular, to have fewer children.

lupus_blackfur

@wdlindsy

Been waiting since the election for someone to lay these truths bare for all to see.

Seems blatantly obvious to the casual observer and yet "analysts" everywhere have simply refused to mention.

Fear? I dunno...

AndyGER :verified_coffee:

@wdlindsy The radical Islam is called Islamism. So how do we call the radical Christians?! Those who voted for Trump and the Republicans, who are far right fascists …

acm

@wdlindsy NYT opinion piece right after the election talked convincingly about "hegemonic masculinity"...

Paxil

@wdlindsy The Southern Baptist and Evangelical churches are nothing but white political arms of the #Republican party the United Methodists seem to be a bit more empathetic to certain demographics but still incredibly segregated. I grew up #Jewish there wasn’t great they abused #black folk though.

William Lindsey :toad:

@Paxil Yes, I agree. I grew up Southern Baptist with two Methodist grandfathers, so saw both denominations up close as I was growing up. The Southern Baptist Convention is, just as you say, now an arm of the Republican party. My experience teaching and doing administrative work at two Methodist colleges/universities allowed me to see that group up closer than ever, and I find it very disappointing. Lots of nice, smiling talk about loving others, but cheap talk not matched by costly walk.

William Lindsey :toad:

@acm_redfox A very good phrase for what we're seeing as a central driving force of political life right now.

William Lindsey :toad:

@andreas_heitmann Some people have in recent years used the label "Christianists."

William Lindsey :toad:

@lupus_blackfur I agree. Diarmaid MacCulloch is excellent — everything he writes is excellent. I'm very much looking forward to his forthcoming book on the history of sex and Christianity.

William Lindsey :toad:

@the5thColumnist Yes. That tells us, doesn't it, that concerns about futility or population really aren't at the center of this discussion. It's primarily about controlling women and returning them to "their place."