Three Bad Things On Thursday

Last updated on: July 1, 2021 at 7:35 am by Anne Kennedy

Three Bad Things On Thursday 2021-07-01T07:35:22-04:00 Anne Kennedy

LOGO Patheos Explore the world's faith through different perspectives on religion and spirituality! Patheos has the views of the prevalent religions and spiritualities of the world.

This was a very depressing and terrible read. I’m not sure where I came across it, but having been up all night–or much of it–being too hot and feeling “off” for exactly the reasons named here–except that this is happening to me as a matter of course because of my age and biological sex–I was horrified to read that anyone would want to bring this about on purpose for a child. Not the Bee reporting:

Once we remembered to go back and read the literature, we realised that was the time his body was adjusting to the drug Lucrin, which inhibits the body’s ability to make [estrogen].

Once that [estrogen] tide goes out, that’s when a short and sharp menopause can hit. Apart from that, the only side effect is potential bone brittleness from a loss of calcium, so we’re being vigilant about ensuring he’s keeping up his vitamins.

For my son, those menopausal symptoms lasted only about a week. He continued to feel physically a bit off, but emotionally he was elated because he knew that the change he’s been waiting for was finally occurring.

If you read the whole thing, you’ll see that the child is not really a boy, but is a girl, but wants to be a boy, and is being pushed into a kind of death-dealing ruin that so many actual women dread. I can only imagine that the mother of this child (I feel like “child” is as good a word as any, as the whole thing is childish, and should be stopped by adults) has herself not gone through this, and therefore is able to be so cavalear. Or perhaps she is just so lost that she just doesn’t know. As an anxious mother myself, I can only pray for her and her child. Anyway, when you put it up against this–a man winning the Nevada beauty contest–it is even more depressing:

In an interview with the local news outlet after the victory, Enriquez called the experience “a celebration of womanhood and diversity and this celebration of being your true self.”

But Enriquez noted that she has not always been so well liked in the pageant world. She recalled at a previous pageant, which she chose not to name in the report, when event organizers found out she was a transgender, they required her to provide medical documents to prove she was female. The organizers also allegedly refused to assign her a roommate.

I’m sorry, but a man entering and winning a contest for and about women is not brave and good. Ethically it is not good, it is not affirming of women. How did this come about? Carl Trueman points to at least one source (pg 123):

For Rousseau, however, individuals are intrinsically good, with sentiments that are properly ordered and attuned to ethical ends, until they are corrupted by the forces of society. Thus there is no tension, in his thinking, between conscience and will other than that genereated by being a member of society and thus being made vulnerable to the perverted ambitions of an inflamed amour propre. For Rousseau, the individual is at his best–he is most truly himself as he should be–when he acts in accordance with his nature. This is the deep principle of Rousseau’s understanding of authentic personhood and of ethics. And conscience is the internal, pristine, and, for Rousseau, God-given voice that points each one in this direction.

Which means that even this is “good”:

If we’re afraid to talk about kink with our children, we prioritize the status quo — sanitizing and censoring their access to information about appropriate and normal self-expression. These are the very attitudes that made Pride necessary — and life-affirming — for so many of us in the first place, and we have no business imposing them on the next generation. Kink embodies the freedom that Pride stands for, reminding attendees to unapologetically take up space as an act of resistance and celebration — refusing to bend to social pressure that asks us to be presentable. That’s a value I want my children to learn. Affirming the kink community helps our children to love themselves and others with courage and resilience. If my wife and I had seen such fierce and determined role models as young people, we might have learned to be ourselves much sooner. We didn’t have that chance, but my children have that community in Pride, and I want to keep it that way.

Yeah no. Don’t take your children to heavily sexualized places where they will see thing that are not meant for them. Indeed, the things going on in pride parades are not meant for anyone. I’m so grateful that Pride Month is over. All the fierce pride is having such a devastating effect on the very bodies of the young, of their hearts and minds. I’m grateful that the gospel is still even for this culture–that God loved the people whom he had created so much that he came to them to heal their infirmity, not just their physical illnesses, but the very bad ideas that sicken the soul. There has almost never been a better time to rush out and tell people about Jesus.

Signs of the Apocalypse

vanity

Previous Post

June 30, 2021

He Was A Bad Bad Father

Next Post

July 2, 2021 7 Strong Independent Takes

Browse Our Archives

Select a Category books Catechesis of the Good Shepherd Children in Conversation culture watch Daily Devotions Demotivations with Anne faith alone for the grandparents GAFCON In conversation with children In the News Kitchen Notes Lambeth Learning Notes Life Going On Men are Human Notes from Home Pictures Reading the Bible Saturday Links Sermons Signs of the Apocalypse The Bad Word Association The Prayer of Jonah Travel Notes Uncategorized Witless Wednesdays Work and the Christian

Select a Month June 2024 May 2024 April 2024 March 2024 February 2024 January 2024 November 2023 October 2023 September 2023 August 2023 July 2023 June 2023 May 2023 April 2023 March 2023 February 2023 January 2023 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 July 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 January 2022 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 August 2021 July 2021 June 2021 May 2021 April 2021 March 2021 February 2021 January 2021 December 2020 November 2020 October 2020 September 2020 August 2020 July 2020 June 2020 May 2020 April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December 2019 November 2019 October 2019 September 2019 August 2019 July 2019 June 2019 May 2019 April 2019 March 2019 February 2019 January 2019 December 2018 November 2018 October 2018 September 2018 August 2018 July 2018 June 2018 May 2018 April 2018 March 2018 February 2018 January 2018 December 2017 November 2017 October 2017 September 2017 August 2017 July 2017 June 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 February 2017 January 2017 December 2016 November 2016 October 2016 September 2016 August 2016 July 2016 June 2016 May 2016 April 2016 March 2016 February 2016 January 2016 December 2015 November 2015 October 2015 September 2015 August 2015 July 2015 June 2015 May 2015 April 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 November 2014 October 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011 June 2011 May 2011 April 2011 March 2011 February 2011 January 2011 December 2010 November 2010 October 2010 September 2010 August 2010 July 2010 June 2010 May 2010 April 2010 March 2010 February 2010 January 2010 December 2009 November 2009 October 2009 September 2009 August 2009 July 2009 June 2009 May 2009 April 2009 March 2009 February 2009 January 2009 December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 October 2006

TAKE THE

Religious Wisdom Quiz

Who was Noah's father?

Select your answer to see how you score.

Seth Lamech Abel Enoch

Books by This Author Books by Anne Kennedy

See All Titles »