It really is. I have a younger cousin who - long before the current wave of book bans - was teaching her kids that Satan is a real being stalking the planet looking for children. Her oldest child started having horrible nightmares for some reason.
I wouldn’t be surprised if she thinks that’s a good thing, expressing a healthy fear of a real and present danger. If the thread title were about stupid and evil religious fucks, this would be an even better match.
On a recent trip to the library (or rather, I should say “a library”, since I have cards for at least three different library systems and use them all), one of the librarians was wearing a shirt that said “I’m with the banned”.
If the pastor wants a “Satan’s influence free” library, he can start his own, in the pastor’s study.
Jeez, the things you gotta do these days to get kids interested in reading.
I always thought that to get young people interested in Shakespeare schools should put the comedies in classes. Twelfth Night is full of dirty jokes, foolin’ around, and other good stuff,
Do any of us old folks remember the show Family Affair? Mr French decided to read classic fairy tales, instead of TV stuff, to the kids. Then he realized that the original Grimm stories, as well as others, were full of really awful stuff. The prince who tried toclimb the tower to Rapunzel fell and put out his eyes in brambles. That kind of “kid stuff”
Yeah, at first I thought it was the evangelical version of stranger danger (“Avoid the creepy guy with the windowless van, he’s an agent of Satan!!!”), but I gathered from later social media posts that doing battle with Satan is apparently a completely different thing.
I mean, he knew where he worked, right? That doesn’t make it correct or that I agree with the ruling, but I hope he isn’t surprised.
Was he “fired” or just “not invited back” as a substitute teacher? The two are different things.
I get the sense that he was fired, but it’s not clear.
He was invited to speak and has the right to say what he wants, but he’s still an asshole in my book.
One wonders what the reaction of all those “future homemakers” was.
Who knows? You know how emotional they are. /s
One presumes that from his POV that by speaking at a Catholic college, he was speaking to the men in the graduating class, and that the women (other than a few deluded sorts) were there to find a husband primarily.
Excuse me, I think I’m going to be sick after channeling his old white guy from the 60s & 70s mentality. Honestly, my step-mother (82, and one of the first few classes of practicing female lawyers of her generation) shared all sorts of stories reflecting that attitude when all she wanted to do was work and prove she was just as smart, and just as skilled as her peers. She rocks.
But if you read the article, the fucking homemaker quote is among the LEAST horrible things he said. I’d hope for a backlash beyond the existing “he doesn’t speak for us” comment from the NFL if it wants to grow it’s female base, but find it extremely unlikely.
In yet another sad commentary:
He found a way to offend pretty much anybody, and that includes the majority of the straight white Christian men in this country.
Do men also find fulfillment in marriage and parenthood? Maybe he thinks they do, because in his case, she does all the work and he takes all the credit.
The nuns around here would have a few choice things to say about his “conservative Catholic” views.
[Announcer Voice} And Butker misses wide right again. [/AV]
They would not be alone:
The sisters of Mount St. Scholastica do not believe that Harrison Butker’s comments in his 2024 Benedictine College commencement address represent the Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts college that our founders envisioned and in which we have been so invested.
One has to wonder why they invited him. Lie with dogs, arise with fleas.