My guess is not a lot of women are salivating over the prospects of being ruled over by the brutish Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association. But it’s their job anyway, the AFA Director of Issues Analysis has determined.
Fischer made the pronouncement on his radio program yesterday, so it must be true, right? Fischer is the director of issues analysis. I mean, he analyzes issues. And women’s sexuality is an issue.
One that apparently fascinates this bloated old bag of wind. I’m not a woman, but even I shuddered when I heard this.
I mean, I like women. Nobody deserves this.
Watch, courtesy of Right Wing Watch:
Now, I am gonna say something here and I don’t care that it is politically incorrect. And i know if Right Wing Watch picks up on this or anybody else they’re just gonna lacerate me for this. I don’t care. From a biblical standpoint, it’s very clear that men are designed to be the breadwinners for their families. That’s the way God set it up; that’s the way he designed it. Husbands are to use their stamina and their strength and their brainpower – not that they’re smarter than women, I’m not saying that – but God’s given them a brain and the purpose for using their mental ability is to provide for their families, to use their physical strength to work hard, to work long hours, to use their physical strength to protect their wives and protect their children and be providers for them. That is the biblical pattern. And the biblical pattern is for a wife and a mother to focus her energies, devote her energies on [sic] making a home for her children and for her husband. And there’s another problem, is the number of married mothers who out earn their husbands. That number has quadrupled and I – and again I’m gonna be politically incorrect here – I don’t think that’s a good idea. I don’t think it’s a healthy dynamic to have the wife out earn her husband because so much of his sense of worth as a male is tied up in what he does vocationally and providing for his family. That’s his calling. That’s not his wife’s job to provide for his family. He knows that it’s his job. And if he has a wife that out earns him I think that’s gonna put some stress on his psyche, gonna put some stress on that marriage.
Basically then, a woman is just an object to be used – protected for her value as an object – to produce children and care for those children and the husband that provides for her. The “biblical dynamic” does not call for her to be an actual person with an inherent value of her own. Her value is solely found in her role as a useful object for the male.
It’s one thing to say you’re submissive. It’s another thing entirely to be told, “you must be submissive.”
Or else.
We’ve had nearly twenty centuries of or else, thank you very much.
Sexual servitude has its proponents. Some play at it, some even prefer it as a lifestyle. Fischer and his fellow religious bigots hate those people. After all, it’s not something you should be able to actually choose freely. That takes the fun out of it.
The fun for patriarchal misogynists. If women aren’t forced into it, what’s the point, right, Mr. Fischer?
No, sexual servitude is only good if it is ordained by the Bible and takes place in a biblical setting. Like, presumably, Bryan Fischer’s bedroom. That way, he can degrade women, Bible in hand, as the Good Lord intended.
The Good Lord intends so much good stuff for men. Not so much for women.
Women like Sandra Fluke, who feel they should only have to engage in sex when and with whom they wish, are sluts for people like Bryan Fischer. Because they’ve violated God’s (read “male patriarchy’s”) will and have the temerity to think they control their own sexuality.
God hasn’t let women do that since he got rid of his consort, Asherah. Abrahamic monotheism had to get rid of the divine female in her role as mother and protectress so it could properly get at women. To treat them like men should be able to treat women.
What on Earth are women thinking, that they have the right to rebel against God?
Only God and his appointed, all-male agents on Earth (no, we are not talking about angels here – far from it) have control and authority over a woman’s reproductive system, including not only her genitalia, but her womb.
So lay back and enjoy it ladies. You don’t need a well-paying job. Just a womb and a convenient point of access. Let’s call that a vagina.
It’s kind of strange, isn’t it? Facebook can get rid of rape but God endorses it.
We can’t pretend he doesn’t. The Old Testament is quite clear on the role of conquered women. They have one purpose and one purpose only: to bring sexual joy to the men who conquered them. Masters, and – that includes the biblical husband – will provide.
All armies rape. It’s been that way all through history. But a God that endorses the servitude of one gender as a benefit to the other is just sick.
Right Wing Watch’s Kyle Mantyla called Fischer a “borderline theocrat” and this is true as far as it goes, I guess. I mean, it depends on if you see theocrat as an official position, like president or CEO. The dictionary says that a theocrat can either be a ruler or a believer in theocracy, so my take is that Fischer is a theocrat.
He is also a misogynist pig, and I think that more than theocrat is his true calling. The Bible, as it has been for so many, is just a handy justification for engaging in reprehensible behavior.
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Anon Y. Mouse
May. 30th, 2013 at 9:32 am
1000 BC called: they want their BS back. LOL
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Lisa
May. 30th, 2013 at 9:43 am
People like him use the bible to promote their own views and prejudices all the time. Why any woman would want to belong to the christian religion is beyond me. Of course it’s not only the Christian religion- but in fact most religions that place women in a subclass.
The bible is nothing but a crutch to help you hate who you want to hate. If you believe that’s what the bible says, then you MUST also believe that women should be punished for being raped, slavery is A-Okay, and wearing clothing of 2 different materials is just as much of a sin as taking another’s life.
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Reynardine
May. 30th, 2013 at 10:18 am
Mammals are exactly a class of being where the mother provides for her young, and in those species where the father provides at all (normally canids), it is during lactation. The mid-Twentieth Century nuclear family, with papa breadwinner and mama homemaker, was an ephemeral phenomenon, lasting two centuries at most and confined to an urban/suburban middle class, now rapidly being destroyed by Fischer’s own paymasters. Farm wives did and do work; so too artisans’ wives and merchants wives. Indeed, many women were married for skills that would prove lucrative for their families, and until the sixteenth century or so, whoever drank beer or ale had received it from the hands of an alewife.
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Regina Moore
May. 30th, 2013 at 11:12 am
“but God’s given them a brain and the purpose for using their mental ability is to provide for their families”
I know one man who was not blessed with a brain.
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EvilFerret
May. 30th, 2013 at 11:21 am
What amuses me is the many countries where wives are not the primary breadwinner, countries like Canada and most of the nations making up the EU. Countries that provide “socialist” safety nets and services that Fischer and his ilk decry.
Maybe Fischer and the ineptly-named AFA should help promote aid for families to be families, so that both parents do not need to work, so that children can get adequate care, food, and medical care. (Having worked in daycare, I do feel that a stay-at-home parent (or grandparent or adult family member) is usually best for the child, at least for a majority of the time, but I don’t think it matters if the caregiver is mother or father, male or female.)
Even better, maybe they should see this as the effect of out-of-control capitalism and consumerism that it is and back down on the cult of the Almighty Dollar.
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Sugapea
May. 30th, 2013 at 1:43 pm
Great Post, Evil!
What we’re seeing, is the last dying scream of the Pisces/Christian Era.
It’s always darkest…
Just before the dawn of the ‘Age of Aquarius’!
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Paws
May. 30th, 2013 at 12:09 pm
So women weren’t born with brains and the ability to think for themselves?
There are examples in nature where the female is not just an alpha – she’s a dominant alpha.
He’s basing his views on the Bible – written by men, FOR men…weak men who are threatened by women. I suspect Mr. Fischer is, himself, very threatened by women and wants to keep us down because of his own insecurities.
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gsb
Jun. 1st, 2013 at 9:51 am
Agree with you once again, 100%. Women were given a brain as well as men. A brain to think with, reason with and decide with, sometimes much better then men. Then we have this: the Torah has a saying that goes somewhat like this: women was made from Adams rib, to be closest to his heart, not from his feet, to be used as a door matt.
If (GOD) wanted women to be only a baby factory, and a servant to a male, we could have been created without the ability to think, just be the little women of the house, that never ventures out, and is there only to serve the male.
Poor,male physic can’t take it?
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gsb
Jun. 1st, 2013 at 9:55 am
Should change that to not all men, some can and do allow women to be as (GOD) intended.
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Charlie F
May. 30th, 2013 at 12:56 pm
This fool belongs in the Stone Age. Women have made major contributions to America and the world in Science, Education, Music, Theatre, Space Travel, and in many cases while and having children.
Whoever believes and follows what Fischer preaches are also fools.
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May. 30th, 2013 at 1:12 pm
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Hrafnkell Haraldsson
May. 30th, 2013 at 1:30 pm
While we’re on this subject: Fox contributor: Liberals who reject that men should dominate women are anti-science
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as promised
May. 30th, 2013 at 2:19 pm
Aside from the obvious chauvinism here, you know what else?
It is really only since the 70s and 80s > when taxation started being skewed to favor the corporations and the wealthy, when wage stagnation began, when employers stopped paying a LIVING WAGE (!) < that women working or not working stopped even being an OPTION.
Don't be blaming women for not "allowing" their husbands to be the breadwinners, buddy. Talk to your RW rich buddies and ask them why families can no longer live on one salary.
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Amber
May. 30th, 2013 at 3:38 pm
You know, he’s right. It is the biblical pattern.
Fortunately, no one is obligated to adopt that pattern or any other biblical precept. In fact, in the (so-called) Land of the Free we get to reject the whole fucking bible if we chose.
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Cynthia L Dodge
May. 30th, 2013 at 6:19 pm
The contents of his views sends serious red-flag warnings that need to be addressed and questioned of their negative twisted gender oriented ways of thinking… This in reality is NOT the Christian way either… I find his way of twisted beliefs oppressive, controlling, and extremely abusive towards women, to say the least. It’s also called Transactional Analysis Psychological Games With Negative Payoffs – Where the abuser uses coercion through intimidation (if she does no do what the man says then condemn her, scorn her, and/or subject her to physical abuse) !! One must be VERY concerned with his messages that clearly meant to oppress women… Such oppression only results in emotional and physical abuses from male counterparts, who want to use such tyranny against the female gender simply deem themselves as anal retentive womanizing mongers who deserve exactly what they ask for when bullying !! You are a bully Bryan Fischer !!
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Johnee
May. 30th, 2013 at 8:47 pm
Umm, I’m surprised no one picked up on it, but the conservative fundie traditionalist shit he talks about is just as bad for men as it is for women.
It’s the polar opposite of men getting all the good things, as someone here suggested. My dad worked his fingers to the bone to support his family, and his worth and “manhood” if you will, was tied up in him being the provider and protector – just like this idiot Fischer says it should be – the tremendous stress took it’s toll on him later in life; he went through serious bouts of depression and eventually died of a massive heart attack.
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Inez
May. 30th, 2013 at 10:17 pm
why isn’t he promoting decent wages, objections to jobs lost due to outsourcing, so that the “providers”can take care of their families? he should be shouting from the roof tops for family survival, based on the breadwinner’s salary. women have emerged from under the male thumb. this is 2013, not the dark ages.
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PSzymeczek
May. 31st, 2013 at 2:32 pm
When I still had a paying job, I made twice as much as my Dear Hubby, and he loved that and is very proud of me. Take that, Bryan Fischer!
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