Christians Say the Darnedest Things: The Patriarchy Lives on at The Heritage Foundation

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8 responses to “Christians Say the Darnedest Things: The Patriarchy Lives on at The Heritage Foundation”

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   March 18, 2026

   GeoffT

   Ouch! The level of self deception (stupidity) and conceit is unbelievable. The article is so insanely ridiculous that there is absolutely no point in trying to debunk it: it debunks itself. What I will say is to repeat a comment I’ve made to my wife several times, and it’s regarding BBC news presenters and journalists in the UK. At one time it was entirely male dominated, with news delivered in those horrible monotonous tones (still referred to funnily enough as “BBC English”) attempting to imitate the Queen’s English, with no hint of regional accents, and the only role women played was as tea ladies. Now the situation is reversed, and women dominate at every level. Almost every one of our main news slots is occupied by women (not exclusively, but mainly) and regional accents are now much more common. As far as I know most of these women have families, even children(!), and I very seldom hear anyone who is unhappy with this aspect of the BBC.

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      March 18, 2026

      matilddaa

      Yes, Geoff, I’ve noticed over the past 20 or so years about women playing more visible roles in many fields, like the BBC, but much else. Anecdote. In 2002, my daughter’s rather shy friend graduated and took a job with the UK’s leading independent consumer champion group, “Which.” In the first weeks, the BBC called the organisation several times to arrange an interview on a topic that affected the public that week. Apparently, they said, ‘So if you can find a young female spokesperson to take the interview, that would be most acceptable….so poor Liz found herself way out of her depth, she was shy, thrown in at the deep end as it were, representing Which to the masses – but her physical appearance mattered to the BBC, and she’s very attractive. Things have changed over the 20yrs or so of this century fortunately, as you say.

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   March 18, 2026

   … Zoe ~

   I had a Math teacher who told us that women should never pursue higher education like engineering. He said it every year, several times a year. He separated the girls from the boys. He put the not so mathematically inclined girls at the front of the class. From grade 9 to grade 11 I sat listening to his misogyny. Sadly, I couldn’t get past his abuse. Instead, I formed speeches I would give, if ever I was in a position to give them.

   I failed grade 11 advanced Math. In my 4th year I went back to repeat my 3rd year. There were 4 of us, all girls, and we were assigned the dummy position at the front of the class. Again he started by telling the entire class, women should not pursue higher education like engineering. I walked out of the class and went to the Principal’s office. I told him I wanted to drop to 4-level Math instead of repeating 5-level. He told me I couldn’t because I needed 5-year for University and we all knew I was going to University. I said, then I guess I’m not going to University. I refuse to sit there and listen to that man demean women.

   Short story, he refused to confront the Math teacher. I dropped the course. Next day, I showed up for 4-year level Math. The teacher took me right outside into the hall and said, Zoe, don’t do this. Don’t let him win. I told her I can’t tolerate it and something should be done. She told me he was a misogynist and we know very well who he is. You can’t do this. I told her unless someone did something I was done with him. She let me in and for the most part I did 5-year level grade 13 Math to kill time. The next day, another girl showed up. The next day, another and the next day the last one. And there we sat through the year. No one did a thing about it. I did not go to University. So much more to the story. 🙂 But, that’s enough.

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   March 19, 2026

   Joel Labonte

   That sucks, Zoe. My friend Aili wanted to be an engineer, was in the top 10% of the country’s academic spectrum, and felt badly about doing so, just because she was a girl.
   She did go, in the end, because a male science teacher encouraged her to follow her dream. It’s so wrong to put such limitations on girls, because they can end up internalizing that, believing it and those wrong beliefs influence their lives and that of their families, not to mention the world around them.

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      March 19, 2026

      … Zoe ~

      Thanks Joel. I had no desire to go into engineering. so that wasn’t the issue for me. I even demanded to see my exam marks. I was exempted from all exams except Math. I knew I had aced Trig but likely didn’t do well in the rest of the exam. I sincerely believed the teacher failed me but I felt strongly that I had at least passed. I was not allowed to see the exam. I fought for it but I was also fighting the culture at the time. Even my own parents, both educators, did nothing to support my efforts. That’s a whole other story. :).

      I don’t feel the angst as I once did. The irony of all of it, is he had two children, girls. I do hope at least one of them became an engineer.

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   March 19, 2026

   Joel Labonte

   Comment section actually works now!

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   March 19, 2026

   ObstacleChick

   My mom was born in 1943. She was an intelligent, curious girl who was a voracious reader. After it became obvious in the 1950s that the US was losing the space race to the USSR, public schools started allowing a handful of the brightest girls into advanced math and science classes. My mom was one of those girls. She graduated 3rd in her class of 300+, and a guidance counselor convinced my National Merit Semifinalist mom that she should go to college. Had she been born 25 years later, she would have been identified as bright and guided much better.

   Unfortunately, in 1961 female college students were mostly relegated to nursing or teaching courses, and my mother liked neither. She dropped out of college after 5 semesters, married a wealthy playboy who cheated on her, then married a self-centered jerk who also cheated on her and left her a single mother. My maternal grandfather took note and made damn sure that i focused on education in preparation for a career. He told me never to be dependent on a man financially. I never have.

   It’s important for women to be in control of their own destiny. This guy can fuck himself all the way to hell.

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   March 19, 2026

   MJ Lisbeth

   “ [T]here is no question whether we can have a future. We can’t. There is a question of whether we deserve one.” I thought more or less the same thing after Trump was elected….again.

   He says we are a happier nation if men are in charge. Hmm…Maybe he’s defining the nation as it was before Emancipation Proclamation, when some were 3/5 as human as others.

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