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Diana Butler Bass notes what media reports about the CDC finding that American girls are experiencing higher levels of violence and hopelessness are missing:
They do not make a connection between the fact that girls are not okay and the recent PRRI/Brookings report that two-thirds of white evangelicals are white Christian nationalists.
#misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy
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https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/the-girls-are-not-okay
Yet the PRRI/Brookings report finds that "Christian Nationalists (the majority of whom are white evangelicals) believe women must submit to men, society is diminished when women have more opportunities to work outside of the home, men are being 'punished' for 'acting like men,' and America has become 'soft' and 'feminized.'”
Built into white Christian nationalism are strong assumptions about gender and the roles of men and women.
#misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #gender
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White Christian nationalist ideology comprises a notion called complementarianism developed by right-wing Christians in response to the rise of feminism in the latter half of the 20th century.
Complementarianism stresses that males and females have complementary roles, and the female role is to be subordinate to males.
#misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #gender #complementarianism
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Bass writes,
"This religious history is a significant factor contributing to why girls and LGBTQ teens are in crisis. Today’s teens have grown up amid the success of religious and political movements intent on taking away their freedoms, rights, and futures. The goal is to force them into their 'complementary' assigned roles in kitchens and closets. Complementarianism and Christian Nationalism are twinned impulses, and neither wants girls, women, or LGBTQ teens to thrive."
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@wdlindsy@toad.social"I don’t think the two studies side-by-side are unconnected or simply coincidental. There are threads between them. They are of a piece, a single, smothering cloth.
It is no fun watching people undo your liberation, especially when you are young."
#misogyny #WhiteChristianNationalism #patriarchy #gender #complementarianism
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