And briefly, the last distinction we must have is the distinction between the wise and intelligent women who understood exactly what Wilkin was getting at, who have dealt with real instances of such a haunting, and who actually have had a bloviating pastor modulate into his ‘pastor voice’ when answering a simple question, and the clueless women who blindly liked Wilkin’s article on Facebook, but who are themselves pushy broads, twinkies in tight tops, or waifs with manga eyes. If there is a real problem out there, an article like this one needs to put up barriers in order to keep the wrong people from getting the wrong idea.
Douglas Wilson
Book Review: Virtuous: A Study for Ladies of Every Age
“A virtuous woman is a woman who protects the weak and vulnerable. A virtuous woman would bravely speak up and tell her pastor husband that writing about other women’s breasts is unseemly and revolting. That woman would be downright ‘plucky.’ Now I am in no way implying this pastor’s wife sat silently by but rather pointing out the virtue in a woman that would abide a husband who demeans women.” Continue reading
Site Note ↑
I added two subcategories to the Quotes category: Breasts & Rape. To access them, hover over the Categories button on the navigation bar above ↑, you’ll see Quotes on the dropdown menu. And when you hover over Quotes, you’ll see another dropdown menu with the subcategories Breasts, Purely Gratuitous, and Rape.
Most if not all of the quotes in Breasts overlap with Purely Gratuitous, but they deserve their own stand-alone category due to the sheer volume of citations (I have about 10 more in the queue).
Regarding the Purely Gratuitous category, it’s worth your time to thumb through those quotes. He waxes vulgar simply for the thrill of shocking his readers. Of course, the problem with this approach is that the writer must continually lower the standard of discourse to maintain his level of shock. Eventually they exhaust their vocabulary and have nothing more to say.
As for the Rape quotes, they should fall under the category Purely Gratuitous because he clearly did not believe the things he wrote, insofar as he addresses punishment for rapists. He wrote them because he wanted his followers to believe he believed them, which is important to hypocrites. Pharisees value appearance over substance every day of the week. “They say and do not” (Matt. 23:3).
“Men dream of being rapists”
But we cannot make gravity disappear just because we dislike it, and in the same way we find that our banished authority and submission comes back to us in pathological forms. This is what lies behind sexual ‘bondage and submission games,’ along with very common rape fantasies. Men dream of being rapists, and women find themselves wistfully reading novels in which someone ravishes the ‘soon to be made willing’ heroine. Those who deny they have any need for water at all will soon find themselves lusting after polluted water, but water nonetheless.
Douglas Wilson
On Doug Wilson’s Concept of “Normal”
Insane. Continue reading
“As stacked as . . . Some blonde in a tight dress”
As stacked as . . . Some blonde in a tight dress. . . .
Douglas Wilson
In case you missed it
“they take the girls out for a walk in order to be noticed”
No matter where you go, people are always just people. The same move is perfected by those unfortunate sisters who want everybody to notice their breasts without anybody seeing them. So they take the girls out for a walk in order to be noticed, but if anybody acts like they saw, such a person is immediately dismissed as Mrs. Grundy’s legalistic aunt, and the responses can be pretty funny.
Douglas Wilson
“Just Between Us Girls”
When I say that some women are biddies, this is not because they differ with me. It is because they are biddies. If I say a woman is a harridan, it is not because she disagrees with me about something. Other factors are in play, one of them being that she is a harridan.
Douglas Wilson
The Serial Pastor Gives Counsel
“Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company corrupts good morals.’” — 1 Corinthians 15:33 Continue reading
@KirkCEO: “Faithful pastors wed child molesters.”
Faithful pastors wed child molesters. Say it with me, Kirkers.
— Not Doug Wilson (@KirkCEO) February 29, 2016
“quite a few missionaries are not spiritually qualified to be out on the field in the first place”
Couple this with the fact that quite a few missionaries are not spiritually qualified to be out on the field in the first place, and you have a clear and obvious need to diversify the risk. I am not trying to be particularly inflammatory or cynical here, but one of the ways you can tell that a young college student is starting to struggle in his Christian walk is that he is starting to think about missions. What better way to quiet the spiritual churn within than by becoming a missionary? Missionaries are spiritual people, right?
Douglas Wilson
Douglas Wilson: “for the sake of accuracy”
“if anybody still cares”
In the matter of Greyfriars’ Hall ministerial student Jamin Wight. Continue reading