(Hat tip Womanist Musings.)
Pastor Sean Harris, a small pile of slime that has crawled out of the primordial ooze and inexplicably chooses to call itself human, has a few wise words to share with people about the gender binary:
“So your little son starts to act a little girlish when he is four years old and instead of squashing that like a cockroach and saying, “Man up, son, get that dress off you and get outside and dig a ditch, because that is what boys do.” You get out the camera, and you start taking pictures of Johnny acting like a female, and then you upload it to YouTube, and everybody laughs about it, and the next thing you know, this dude, this kid, is acting out childhood fantasies that should have been squashed.
Can I make it any clearer? Dads, the second you see your son dropping the limp wrist, you walk over there and crack that wrist. Man up. Give him a good punch. Ok? “You are not going to act like that. You were made by God to be a male and you are going to be a male.”
And when your daughter starts acting too butch you reign her in. And you say, “Oh, no, sweetheart. You can play sports. Play them to the glory of God. But sometimes you are going to act like a girl and walk like a girl and talk like a girl and smell like a girl and that means you are going to be beautiful. You are going to be attractive. You are going to dress yourself up.”
So, uh, we’re explicitly encouraging people to beat up their gender-non-conforming children now? That’s nice. That’s… very, very nice. Ozy’s Controversial Opinion of the Day: if you would EVER consider beating a four-year-old child for ANY reason, much less something that harms neither themselves or others, someone should call Child Protective Services on your child-abusing ass.
And let me just put this as clearly as I can: DRESSES DO NOT MAKE BOYS GAY. There are lots of straight guys that like wearing dresses! Dresses come in many interesting and flattering styles that many men appreciate! There are many, many gay men who are masculine as you please, and there are many, many straight men who are femme as fuck. You cannot assume someone’s sexual orientation from their gender performance, and it is fucked as hell to think that you can. Hell, the ancient Romans thought that trousers were for girly-men; as a classicist, I am duty-bound to consider Pastor Harris a cinaedus.
Not to mention the dear pastor’s apparent confusion between trans women and gay men. Trans women are women who happened to be born with penises; gay men are men who happen to be attracted primarily to other men. These are two completely different groups. Trans women can be attracted to men, women, both, or neither; gay men are attracted to men. Gay men could have been assigned male or female at birth; trans women are assigned male at birth. Trans women are women; gay men are men. You see here that they are really nothing alike.
Pastor Sean Harris has retracted his statements, apparently! “I have never suggested children or those in the LGBT lifestyle should be beaten, punched, abused (physically or psychologically) in any form or fashion.” Man, you didn’t? I must have been confused by the fact that you SAID THAT KIDS SHOULD BE PUNCHED FOR BEING LIMP-WRISTED. Ha ha, isn’t it funny how these silly little misunderstandings happen?
He goes on to remark that he does “not apologize for the manner in which the Word of God articulates sexual immorality, including homosexuality and effeminacy, as a behavior that is an abomination to God.” That doesn’t seem quite right, but then I’m only a godless commie, what do I know about religion? Let me go consult the Words of Jesus Himself, the dude who created your religion!
Jesus replied, “‘You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, you shall not steal, you shall not give false testimony, honor your father and mother,’and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’”
“All these I have kept,” the young man said. “What do I still lack?”
Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”
That doesn’t say anything about effeminancy at all! Maybe it’s someplace else…
“Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you? When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?”
The King will reply, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.”
Oh, no, that CAN’T be right.
If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
Huh, that can’t be it, Jesus clearly supports the punching of little kids…
When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.”… At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the older ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?”
“No one, sir,” she said.
“Then neither do I condemn you.”
My Bible is clearly defective.
High five for femme straight men! I decided to get my haircut last week and with short hair, I look rather androgynous. Not two days later I’m in starbucks and I get the, “What can I get you, Miss?” There is an awkward silence while I glower at him and he finally says, “Uhh, what can I get you, Sir?” like he isn’t quite sure. Maybe when I’m 30 I’ll look many enough to be thought of as a man, haha.
How about streamlining the process by removing the gay kids? Just Sean Harris beating himself
I’m pretty sure the church thinks that’s a sin too.
teehee
Well then! In that case, I advocate gay kids beating pastor Sean Harris! I mean, it’s only fair, right?
This is rarely about actual homosexuality, but rather just gender performance. They treat homosexuality, cross dressing, transgenderism, or liking the wrong colors as the same thing because in their world view they are simply various degrees of the same sin: failure to properly perform your gender.
In this world view there is no such things as a “person,” there are however “men” and “women” and “boys” and “girls” and they come in that order.
Exactly. This is all about enforcing a very narrow set of prescriptive gender roles. Anyone who does not conform to those is a freak, and nobody cares what kind of freak, because all there is is right (those conforming) and wrong (everyone else). And so, since LGBT is an obvious target, everything non-conforming get bundles up as “gay”. You can observe this type of thinking in many (most?) teenage groups. teen boys are often under a lot of pressure to perform their gender. If they’re unlucky and belong to an environment where the adults have not grown out of these… Read more »