My amazing friend (and a rare Baptist MDiv/MAR/PhD) Thomas writes this fantastic post:
Admittedly, the overall message of the post seems to be one of trying to teach children good social media practices, but it does much more than that. For starters, there is what appeared to many commenters as blatant hypocrisy: the mother decried certain photos of teenage girls while peppering her post with photos of her attractive and fit sons, bare-chested on the beach the author has since replaced these pictures. But this only scratches at the surface.
via Conservative Christian Slut-Shaming, Boys Will Be Boys, and Identity Formation.
I really appreciate (and agree with) Thomas’s perspective. It’s past time to overthrow the “spirituality means repressed sexuality” paradigm.
I really appreciate (and agree with) Thomas’s perspective. It’s past time to overthrow the “spirituality means repressed sexuality” paradigm.