Top 10 Posts of 2016

Let’s make it the Top 11 posts of the year and here’s why: This website runs on WordPress, which is the most flexible content management system in the world. And whenever you upload an image to a WordPress post, WordPress creates a stand-alone post for that image even if the theme does not display it (the theme developer determines if & how this happens). So we uploaded an image to post #11 in this list (“the propriety of rape”); you see the image when you click on the link in the post. That is, you see a stand-alone post that features an image, which is the #1 post on this list, Her Hand In Marriage, page 13. Posts #11 & #1 are separate but related, or attached.

Rachel Held Evans tweeted a link to post #1. Julie Anne tweeted a link to post #11. Both posts share the same content (Doug Wilson’s explanation for why some women agree to get raped), though each post displays the content differently. The point is this: that rape post moved the needle with readers everywhere, as it should. And it takes little thought to see how it accounts for Doug Wilson’s disregard for Natalie Greenfield and Steven Sitler’s son (and Sitler’s other rape victims for that matter). He easily explains away the crime of rape and its victims.

One last thing: Rachel Miller sent that quote over but didn’t get a hat tip. Therefore, a big tip of the fedora to Rachel Miller for that lead, and for her marvelous discovery of the plagiarized text in the Omnibus textbook series (Douglas Wilson general editor).

Here are the top eleven posts of the year:

  1. “the propriety of rape”
  2. The Kirk Payroll: It’s Related
  3. Update to the Sitler Archive: “Special Progress Report”
  4. It’s Not You
  5. On the Serial Pastor’s comments to the Daily News
  6. Truth & Exhortation
  7. A Brief Vindication of Gary Greenfield
  8. Survivors: ‘Listen to me’
  9. The Shubin Report: “Analyzing Douglas Wilson’s Handling of the Steven Sitler and Jamin Wight Cases”
  10. Fifty Shades of Guile
  11. Her Hand In Marriage, page 13

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Happy New Year to everyone!