Mar 12, 2009
So That’s Why I Have No Respect for Women!
I mean, duh! It’s because they dress all slutty and stuff. If they would only dress more modestly, they’d be “…individuals worthy of deep-seated respect and honor from men.”
Or at least that’s what Deliverance Bible Church’s pastor opined in Wednesday’s TCU Daily Skiff.
Here’s the interesting bit — Pastor Weatherford preaches for/at a church that not only accepts, but RELISHES being so-called “outcasts,” (which, based on the pictures on their website, means the tattooed/pierced/all-black-clothed/mullet/mohawk/punk/hot-rod crowd, not ACTUAL outcasts like orphans/immigrants/the poor/lepers/AIDS patients/non-white people). I’m sure he’s experienced his fair share of being judged based on his appearance by his peers in the evangelical community, yet he has no qualms about doing the exact same thing to 54% of his fellow students at TCU.
My favorite part is where he pulls the old “I’m rubber, you’re glue” trick and blames his own issues with lust and “impure” thoughts on the women (or rather the bodies of the women) he’s lusting about and objectifying. Then he brings it full-circle and blames the fact that he even needs to school us on this topic on the women’s liberation movement; the go-to bogey-uhhh-”person” for evangelicals caught in a vexing moral quandary about women.
Is this really the school of thought in mainstream churches, or is Weatherford’s column just a particularly egregious example of the tortured logic evangelicals will go to to justify their continued attempts to subjugate women?
Note: I linked to the TCU Chapter of the Tri-Delta sorority for illustration purposes only — I am in no way implying that these young women are dressed or behave in a “slutty” manner. I merely wanted to give an example of how the typical female student at TCU dresses, which I thought was nicely illustrated on that page. Maybe the average female TCU student doesn’t bend over quite so much when they’re in a group photo, but I think you get the point.
Yet another fine example of the “it’s not my fault” inaccountability that so many Americans today relish in….especially those who suffer from the Poor-me-no-one-understands-me illness. Suck up deal with your own issues and stop blaming my fine ass.
I bet Andrew Weatherford couldn’t hook up with a Tri Delt if his life depended on it.
Oh Andrew, don’t let these years go to waste. God made college, and sorority houses, for a reason.
“And the two became one”.
you say -
“ACTUAL outcasts like orphans/immigrants/the poor/lepers/AIDS patients/non-white people”
how are non-white people and immigrants outcasts? we have a non-white president and the very fact someone is an immigrant means they have chosen to ask for inclusion and that we – accept them – not “cast them away.”
you also failed to mention in your list the over one million per year in america who really are cast away … slaughtered first that is, and then cast away.
Hey Pete I have no intelligent comment on this post … only that if this guy is so foolish and nonsensical, you shouldn’t dignify his effort by replying to it … come on, I’ve been checking back here over a week. Where is the next post? Why don’t you talk about returning to TCU or cooking or something like that? I think of Cowtown Chronicles as being cerebral and metaphysical, not political and culture-warish.
I like you, Sonja — you go straight for the balls when you challenge someone.
I haven’t dignified the troll with a response because I was debating whether I wanted to feed it or not. You’re right, I shouldn’t.
More content this week, I promise!
What kinda of weird pastor lists himself as female on Myspace (http://www.myspace.com/j_andrew) and then puts “not really female” in the City field? Previous/pending sex change operation or something? Creepy.