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They’re soft when it comes to sexuality
I still get unsolicited emails about pills that can help with that.
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I’m reading the transcript. This shit is wild.
Douthat: So who is your audience right now? Who is the Allie Beth Stuckey listener?
Stuckey: I would say it is mostly Christian conservative women, ages 25 to 45. There are obviously men who listen as well.
Douthat: How many men listen to the show?
Stuckey: They have their own name. They’re called the Relatabros, and I call my husband chief Relatabro. He is the head of the Relatabros. At least from the YouTube demographic information that we have, I believe it’s 85 percent female, or maybe 80 percent female. So there’s definitely a chunk of men who listen to and watch the show.
Some episodes, like “How to Fix Your Period,” are probably not going to be for them, but other episodes they can enjoy just as much.
Relatabros?!?! That did NOT develop organically. How the fuck do these people manage to get so many followers? That is the cringiest fucking thing I’ve seen in awhile
Douthat: Why do you think younger women are drawn to your particular way of talking about the world?
Stuckey: No. 1, clarity. A lot of evangelical leaders and pastors have a tougher job than me in a lot of ways, so I’m not trying to throw all of them under the bus, but they’re just not as clear about what the Bible says about gender or what the Bible says about marriage. Does the Bible have anything to say about immigration?
The biggest surge in followers and listeners that I had in a short period of time was in 2020, when everyone was posting the black square. Everyone was saying that George Floyd was killed because of racism. Everyone was saying that white people, especially white evangelicals, had a role to play in George Floyd’s death. We all need to sit back and listen and learn, and even in churches we need to be reading “White Fragility.”
And I don’t like to pat myself on the back at all, because I certainly wasn’t alone, but among white evangelical women, I have been one of the only ones to say, “No, that’s not biblical. That’s not how I’m talking about it.” I’m not going to shame white women. I’m not going to say that they need to sit down and shut up and be lambasted for something that someone who might have looked like them in the same geographical region did 200 years ago or 50 years ago. That’s not the biblical definition of justice.
I don’t think she understood White Fragility (I have not read the book, but I do understand the basic idea).
I don’t think that pastors should get up every Sunday and tell you what’s going on in the news. I don’t think that they are bound to the news cycle. But when the Bible says in the beginning, God created them male and female, in his image, he created them, they shouldn’t avoid that. They shouldn’t pretend like that doesn’t mean what it means. We shouldn’t pretend that the Bible doesn’t speak so clearly to so many of the so-called culture war issues of our day.
And because they are scared of what they may lose by speaking up because they like to be written about nicely in The New York Times or wherever, they’re just not willing to say it.
She’s literally being written about nicely in the New York Times while spouting hateful bullshit.
The toxic empathy part is basically saying that empathy can be good or bad, and if you’re empathizing with sinners (trans people get a specific call out), then that’s bad. You know . . . I am no longer a Christian, but I was raised as one, and I am 100% fucking certain that that is NOT consistent with what Jesus said. Fuck these people, and fuck the NY Times for giving them a platform to spread their bullshit.
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And given that their own book say things like “Love your neighbour as yourself” and “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone”, I’d say “… their Anti-Christian bullshit”.
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She’s Southern Baptist, which explains a lot.
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This reminds me of the toxic woman profiled here. So they believe that they are the good ones, and they are the only ones deserving of empathy. Everyone else is a sinner, but they’re “doing it right,” so all is forgiven when it comes to members of their group. 
I hope Stuckey has a FO moment, too.
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“Toxic empathy,” the heretical notion that all people are deserving of respect. The world needs more of this toxin.
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Mr. Trump’s demands cannot be challenged, because not only are these demands of no importance, He is not the president of Brazil.
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I don’t know that this is true. When the list gets this long, it’s hard to remember everybody. There were an awful lot of ex-Nazis who took power int he post-WWII German governments.
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Yeah, but we knew who they were.
One of the starting points for the "68er" protest generation.
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True, but a major reason for that was the rising tensions between the US and USSR. By the time of the Berlin Blockade/airlift, leadership on both sides decided that de-nazification was done and it was time to move on to the next struggle…
And as @FGD135, people knew…
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Worked for Ukraine. Just sayin’.
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I think that if the war had not happened, Zelenskyy probably would have been voted out. His pre-war numbers were apparently not great. He has turned out to have risen to the occasion, and that’s amazing. But at some point we need to start acknowledging that someone being good on TV isn’t really a great qualification for being in office.
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Despite the government trying its hardest to stop the publication of the brown book, and cover up just how many of them were “busy” before 1945.
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Pfft. All of them, to some extent.
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