The Cowtown Chronicles

Hat tip: Moose Peterson

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.

Seriously — All through the campaign I recognized the next path of spin or rhetoric a day or two before the campaigns started spouting it, and would share that with my wife, or comment on another blog about it.

Lately I’ve been saying that the solution to the energy “crisis” isn’t centralized power generation using renewable sources; the answer is distributed, small-scale production, close to where the energy is used.

I’m not sure if Amory Lovins is reading my mind or not, but he says the same thing (basically) in this post on the Freakonomics Blog.

How do I monetize my apparent clairvoyance? I want a job where I get to think about stuff and make predictions every day…

Thanks, FailBlog, for bringing it back for the holidays.

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