Guy starts playing more video games and paying less attention to his wife. Son worries about his parents, writes to Pat Robertson for advice. Pat, naturally, blames the wife.
“Pat, how are you gonna blame the mother?” “Easy!”
Yeah, when your worldview is that the man is the head of the household and can do no wrong, obviously it has to be the wife’s fault. And in this case, it’s her fault because she’s ugly. Surely the number one cause of divorce is women becoming less bonerrific, amirite guyz?
Wonder how I became a feminist through atheism, as I’ve described previously? Well, this is a prime example of religiously-motivated gross injustice, right here, and religion is rife with such rank misogyny. Becoming attuned to it in religious teachings also opened my eyes to the myriad secular injustices against women. So now I’m a feminist, through atheism, despite some antifeminist atheists’ cries that they don’t overlap.
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Donovan
January 19, 2013 at 12:17 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Slatternly:
1 : untidy and dirty through habitual neglect; also : careless, disorderly
2 : of, relating to, or characteristic of a slut or prostitute
-Merriam Webster
Now it can be said I learned something of value from Pat. I increased my vocabulary by 1 word. He can retire now.
Seriously, Pat. Please. Retire now.
crowepps
January 19, 2013 at 1:40 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
To supply the entire response to “How are you going to blame the mother?” Robertson said, “It’s easy to blame the mother!”
Nothing has done more to increase the number of atheists in this country than the blatant misogyny and racism of televangelists using the heretical pseudo-Christianity of the Southern Baptists to make themselves obscenely rich.
eyeroll
January 19, 2013 at 4:33 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Maybe someone should blame HIS mother for giving birth to such a preposterous fool.
F [nucular nyandrothol]
January 19, 2013 at 5:35 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Slatternly? Slatternly? Is he talking to people thirty or forty years older than himself? Still trying to impress the grown-ups of his childhood with outdated words of petty moralization? Noooobody talks that way!
F [nucular nyandrothol]
January 19, 2013 at 5:37 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Also, I’m a little afraid for the world where a son writes to Pat about his mom not getting enough action/affection from dad.
If it even happened.
margecullen
January 20, 2013 at 2:19 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Scary and I didn’t even think the old kodger was still alive. Yuck!
Kipper
January 20, 2013 at 4:55 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Wow… just wow.
“Seriously, Pat. Please. Retire now.” Yes, please, can he? He should NOT be giving advice to ANYONE …
Arancaytar
January 21, 2013 at 4:00 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
In the words of Jon Stewart:
Shut up and shut up.
jnorris
January 22, 2013 at 5:52 pm CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
Joseph Campbell pointed out that the first thing Adam did in the Garden of Eden when confronted by God over the apple eating thing was to blame Eve. Numb-nuts wasn’t man enough to own his own sin and many men today still can’t.
smrnda
January 23, 2013 at 12:46 am CDT (UTC -5) Link to this comment
In the Adam and Eve myth, anybody notice that the freak-out over realizing they were naked didn’t happen until after ADAM ate the fruit? I mean, Eve at it and was just walking around, no effect whatsoever. The lesson I took was that it takes religion is some kind of mind-poison that’s substantially more potent on men.