"The ‘easiest way’ to maintain healthy weight is to ‘live constantly under the control of the Spirit.’ Her book, like Ross’s, is dated, but given the number of chapters on appearance in more recent books by pastors’ wives, this kind of advice still resonates”

#women #Trump #MAGA #misogyny #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #ChristianNationalism
/6

"In words reminiscent of [Mary O.] Ross’s, she explains that a pastor’s wife is the ‘church hostess’ and should ‘appear as attractively dressed as possible all the time.’ But she goes further than Ross, addressing not only wardrobe but also the body— dedicating a chapter titled ‘Do Calories Count?’ to weight management. ‘Overweight is a sign of a spiritual lack,’ Pentecost contends."

#women #Trump #MAGA #misogyny #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #ChristianNationalism
/5

“Dorothy Pentecost— wife of J. Dwight Pentecost, a longtime professor of Bible exposition at Dallas Theological Seminary and pastor at Grace Bible Church in Dallas— had written a book for pastors’ wives that was recommended to me."

#women #Trump #MAGA #misogyny #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #ChristianNationalism
/4

~ Beth Allison Barr, Becoming the Pastor’s Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman’s Path to Ministry (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2025), p. xi

"Like many Godly Christian Wives, I was programmed to blame myself when a husband expressed his unhappiness by verbally, emotionally, and/or physically abusing his wife. It took my male pastor and a male friend telling me they were afraid my husband would eventually maim or kill me to seek a divorce."

#women #Trump #MAGA #TechBros #misogyny #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #ChristianNationalism
/3

@megatronicthronbanks @VedaDalsette @WatchForBones @idoubtit @megatronicthronbanks
For the Mosuo, in Nepal's vastness, the absence of the norms of sedentarized marriage and male domination may have contributed to society's evolution towards peacefulness.

Male domination + individualism may be significant factors favoring violence and preventing societies evolution towards peace and maturity.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359615292_Gender_Differences_Concerning_the_Horizontal_and_Vertical_Individualism_and_Collectivism_A_Meta-Analysis

"If you are a member of QAnon and were under the impression Donald Trump is saving women and girls from sex trafficking, well, I guess facts have never stopped you before."

~ Robyn Pennacchia

#Musk #Trump #AndrewTate #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny #SexTrafficking
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https://www.wonkette.com/p/trump-breaks-alleged-rapistsex-trafficker

"Just when you thought the regime couldn’t get more vomitous, accused rapists Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan are on their way to America, sprung by an adjudicated sexual assaulter [i.e., Trump] who has extracted them from the Romanian justice system, with blithe insult to prosecutors in both Romania and the UK."

~ Nina Burleigh

#Musk #Trump #AndrewTate #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny #SexTrafficking
/8

https://www.americanfreakshow.news/p/a-maga-welcome-for-andrew-tate

As "misogynist influencer" Andrew Tate is released by the Romanians after he had been jailed on sex-trafficking charges, and as he flies to the US Matt Shea's report on Tate's alliance with Trump is must reading.

#Musk #Trump #AndrewTate #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny #SexTrafficking
/7

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/21/andrew-tate-trump-administration

As Romania announces that self-styled misogynist influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, who had been jailed in Romania on sex-trafficking charges, have been released and are flying to the US, Jon Hinley and Emine Sinmaz report that the Tates are "outspoken supporters" of Trump and members of the US president’s inner circle have spoken out publicly against their jailing.

#Musk #Trump #AndrewTate #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny
/6

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/feb/27/andrew-tate-tristan-romania-us

"They aren’t even opposing DEI so much as very transparently restoring white men to power, stripping women and people of color of their accomplishments, and casting doubt on the very concept that people who are not white and male might actually be qualified for important roles."

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DEI #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny
/5

"What the Trump administration is doing is not opposing DEI because they believe it’s unhelpful or divisive or unfair or an overcorrection to a legitimate problem."

~ Jill Filipovic

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #DEI #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny
/4

https://jill.substack.com/p/the-anti-meritocracy-of-maga

"Republican women are fools if they think that treatment will only be reserved for Democratic women. On the contrary, because Republican women tend to be in closer proximity to Republican men, they're far more likely to be on the receiving end of anger over talkback or other perceived insubordination."

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny
/3

"Male MAGA leaders are showing increasing interest in bringing Republican women to heel, both culturally and through the force of law. After all, they are more likely to live and work with Republican women. If they want to feel the full flowering of male domination, it's Republican women they need to see submitting."

~ Amanda Marcotte

#Musk #Trump #Republicans #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination #patriarchy #women #misogyny
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https://www.salon.com/2025/02/26/a-woman-is-like-a-child-maga-quickly-turns-its-sights-on-stripping-women-of-power/

It's everywhere in the dismantling of reproductive rights for women, especially in the Dobbs ruling.

We've just seen in the Hegseth hearing all over again how willing many US white Christians are to excuse and explain away sexual abuse including rape, when the person committing it is a white heterosexual man — and a Republican. I.e., not Bill Clinton….

What's not to like in this exclusive boys' club, for young men?

#churches #GenZ #millennials #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/4

In every way possible, many churches now advertise themselves as privileged boys' clubs for heterosexual males. They promote a theology which claims that males, heterosexual ones, are at the pinnacle of creation and have been placed there by God to rule and govern, and to subjugate women.

This theology instructs women to obey and submit.

#churches #GenZ #millennials #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
/3

"But the young people who do show up in houses of worship are more likely to be men. Even as Gen Z women continue to leave churches, their male counterparts are joining congregations in higher numbers."

For young males, particularly white ones, what's not to like in what many white Christian churches in the US are making of Christianity at this point in time?

#churches #GenZ #millennials #gender #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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