You see the strategy. Minimize the seriousness of this, but not so that you can feel good about indulging yourself. Minimize the seriousness of it so that you can walk away from a couple of big boobs without feeling like you have just fought a cosmic battle with principalities and powers in the heavenly places, for crying out loud. Or, if you like, in another strategy of seeing things rightly, you could nickname these breasts of other woman as the ‘principalities and powers.’ Whatever you do, take this part of life in stride like a grown-up. Stop reacting like a horny and conflicted twelve-year-old boy.
Douglas Wilson
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So Doug nicknames women’s breasts? Thanks, Doug. I feel respected, loved, cherished, protected.
And yet this sounds exactly like what a 12 year old boy might do.
yup
This advice could have been given by any point-missing moralist of any religion or no religion at all. How about being transformed into the image of Christ instead? Love your neighbor. Stop seeing others as a means of amusement, or worse, a source of temptation to be managed, or worse yet–a locus of evil put there to trip you up.
Thank you. Better advice than Doug ever gave.
Is it just me, or is this one of the most disgustingly misogynistic statements I’ve ever read?
Thank you, Dash. I thought it was just me. It’s good to know that it’s just us.
is this from the new book? and what if , WHAT IF an elder’s wife, addressing the spiritual koffee klatch 4 moms, talked about the struggle to avoid lusting after hot young men’s crotches….just ponder that a moment.
Wow. Apparently someone has some trouble treating women as actual people rather than body parts.
I can always recognize Wilson’s unfortunate rhetoric by his combination of pretentious Oxfordian language and crass, demeaning, nasty phrases. It’s the strangest juxtaposition.
Sounds like an attempt to sound well-bred and academic while reminding us what a red-blooded manly male man he is. He notices breasts, people!
Agreed. C.S. Lewis would wince in pain at Doug’s writing.
Astute observation. Unfortunately, this “cock of the walk” affectation is not uncommon in evangelicalism, reformed or otherwise. I think it’s symptomatic of a monstrous craving to be affirmed sexually, albeit in the most idiomatically juvenile way.
Another way to view women, from the same post: “herpes on heels”
Wait, these names are reserved just for the women that “tempt” you, and so, deserve them. Does it never occur to him that the women of the Wilson clan could easily be labelled at some point with the hateful verbiage he heaps upon women? Or does Doug pretend to know what his daughters actually wear in their bedrooms, and how those darling granddaughters might act out one day as they strain at separating from their own parents? (Would he be willing to use the word “skank” as readily?)
I foresee the day when DW finally stops pretending to be a Pastor and counselor and turns to full time porn author. Nifty little income on the side for Canon Press. And a perfect gig for a horny and conflicted 60 something ex “Pastor”.
The publishing company is already named Canon Press. “Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember.” Mark 8:18