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Saturday, December 20, 2008

f**k old spice

and 'manliness' too. a real man is someone who is not uncomfortable (or as in the case of matthew chancey, AFRAID ) around women who are comfortable being who they are. strong, beautiful, smart, hard working, thoughtful, nurturing, and capable of making a decision to vote for the best candidate they deem worthy.

According to Old Spice, the Art of Manliness is Anti-Woman
Meet Matthew Chancey, the epitome of "manliness," says an Old Spice-sponsored contest.

Religious Dispatches has a piece on how an this contest created by web zine The Art of Manliness included a finalist who is a part of a movement that doesn't believe women should vote. And that finalist ended up being the winner of the Man of the Year Award.

Chancey was chosen with nine other finalists that the contest claims "epitomize the manliness that used to exist before the arrival of metrosexual pretty boys." But apparently this "manliness that used to exist" regresses all the way back to when women didn't have the vote. A member of the Christian Reconstructionist movement, a homophobic, anti-choice, anti-contraception group. In short, Chancey, his wife and nominator Doug Phillips is, according to author Kathryn Joyce,

"the staunchest promoters of the Quiverfull conviction and the patriarchy lifestyle, both of which hold that Christian couples should have as many children as God gives them, forgoing any form of family planning, as both a demonstration of their obedience and trust in God and as a militant method of demographic battle with nonbelievers."

Yes, Quiverfull, the movement that believes women's bodies aren't their own, but in fact sacrificial wombs used to build God's army. .............

2 comments:

Commander Zaius said...

Once again I don't know whether to laugh at the completely ridiculous nature of Chancey or again start planning my escape to someplace away from most civilization.
While I'm still very hopeful with Obama about to become president I'm around enough of those people to know they are figuring out ways to return to power. The sad and disturbing fact in this my son's girlfriend's parents are those people.

Unknown said...

we can only hope your son shows his girlfriend the right path. wow, he's old enough for a girlfriend? wow