[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Rates of anxiety, suicide and self-harm (not including hymen-vandalism) has greatly increased among girls and young women in the last decade.

While Fear Of The Lord is a good thing (Deuteronomy 6:24, Psalm 31:19, Psalm 67:4, Psalm 112:1, Psalm 115:13, Psalm 128:1-4, Proverbs 10:27, Proverbs 19:23, Proverbs 22:4, Proverbs 28:14, Psalm 33:18-19, Psalm 34:7, Psalm 85:9, Psalm 145:19, Nehemiah 1:11, Psalm 147:11, Proverbs 15:16, Ecclesiastes 8:12-13, Luke 1:50, Psalm 25:12, Ecclesiastes 7:18, Isaiah 33:6, Psalm 103:11, Psalm 60:4, Psalm 115:11, Proverbs 14:26-27, Malachi 3:16-17, Zephaniah 3:7, Malachi 4:2, Revelation 11:18, Psalm 34:9, Psalm 111:5) this anxiety is different.

Some theories:

1. Mainstream theory: Social media plus a culture that teaches bad thinking habits, see The Coddling Of The American Mind.

2. My Thought: Girls feel anxious when there are no strong men around to defend them. Feminist-raised soyboys make their female peers feel defenseless.

3. My Thought: Porn is horrifying. But activists don't send their mobs after porn stars because activists choose their targets by vulnerability, in particular vulnerability to shaming. But Porn is shameless, so porn wins in our survival-of-the-shameless environment.

4. My Thought: Feminist activists have gotten a lot better at their job, and/or communicating with girls via social media. Activists work by scaring the brains out of people (activists even used to call themselves "Agitators").

5. Leftist: Rape culture and male backlash have suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and you can't blame to left for failing to prepare for this completely predictable trend. (Interesting how Leftists always promise Utopia, and then once things fall apart they blame backlash/counter-revolutionaries/Kulak wreckers/CIA plots. Why not warn us ahead of time?)

Well, that's all the theories I can think of right now, but I want a proper Biblical look at this phenomenon.

Whatever happened, it had to happen very recently, very fast - this is why social media and post-9/11 safetyism stand out as likely culprits. Everything else happened slowly, unless there is some sort of "tipping point" or "critical mass" thing going on. But The Coddling Of The American Mind is not exactly heavy on Biblical references. I won't believe it until God says it.

Time to consult the .

[Dr. Anthony J. Toole]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

Rates of anxiety, suicide and self-harm (not including hymen-vandalism) has greatly increased among girls and young women in the last decade.

Whatever happened, it had to happen very recently, very fast - this is why social media and post-9/11 safetyism stand out as likely culprits.

Is it possible the rapid onset of female self-harm coincided with liberals forcing decent Christian family values television off the air? If girls would just dress nice, brush their hair and stop sassing back then all these problems would disappear under the rug.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

God calls these problems "the bread of idleness":

Prov 31:27 She looks well to how things go in her household, and the bread of idleness (gossip, discontent, and self-pity) she will not eat.

"Social Media" does not appear in the Bible, but "Gossip" does.

Psalm 31:13 I have heard the gossip of many; terror is on every side

Nothing new under the sun, folks.

Feminists, like all social justice warriors, are rich. They are rich-supremacists:

Psalms 119:23 Though nobles take their seat and gossip about me, your servant will meditate on your statutes.

On outrage-inducing clickbait:

Prov 26:20 Without wood, fire goes out; without a gossip, conflict dies down.

God predicted Twitter:

Isa 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter:

[Dana723]

In my experience, a woman is depressed if she doesn't have a household to take care of. Women without a husband and children can never find fulfillment in their lives. Every moment of my day is filled with cooking and cleaning and mending and washing and all other such duties. There's no time for me to become anxious or depressed!

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Does anyone know if portable internet access has increased the amount of people paying attention to news and current events? Current Events has gotten more entertaining, there are many comedy shows dedicated to it. When I was young only nerds knew anything beyond the President's name. Those nerds would have all been male.

I miss those days, and will instantly pledge my allegiance to the first politician who wears a hat reading "Make Politics Boring Again".

Traditional media is also becoming feminized, it's targeting women now.

In the past, it was agreed that ladies were not worry their pretty little heads with the corrupting and sordid world of politics and current events.

The News was for men, which means it was like an action movie. Lots of explosions and violence and epic stories of raw power.

As things got feminized "human interest" stories started showing up. "Human interest" meant "female interest", as if men are not human.

Now The News is clucking henparty of gossip, high society scandal, emotionalism, social conformism enforcement, and etiquette policing/high society shibboleth fads. Female numerical illiteracy means nobody can prioritize any more - one bumtouch on campus outweighs the doubling of the crime-rate in entire European nations because "math is tough".

Heck, next time you're tempted to watch CNN, how about you just put this video on loop:

[Johny Joe Hold]

I'm not a theologian, but it is obvious from the Bible women are the gender most likely to sin. We saw that in Eve.

That being the case, it seems to me women might just be depressed because they sin so much. The Godly women of Landover Baptist never mention being anxious or depressed. They do not engage in sin either.

The answer might be right here at Landover Baptist.

[Xanax]

I don't think feminism or a lack of a strong man has anything to do with it. First I don't think a women needs a man to feel fulfilled or safe. All they need is Jesus. All men and women need is Jesus. And I don't think there is anything wrong with feminism. Men and women are both equal. A woman can do anything a man can do. She can run a large company and have authority over the men and women who work for her. But now the world is taking it to the extreme and saying a woman can be a man or a man can be a woman or women are better than men, these ideas are wrong and called sin.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

Now The News is clucking henparty of gossip, high society scandal, emotionalism, social conformism enforcement, and etiquette policing/high society shibboleth fads.

I'm not saying this is worse than pure "if it bleeds it leads" macho news. I'm not saying that female power is automatically a bad thing.

But consider that civilization has been 6,000 or so years of trying to figure out how to deal with the dark side of men. Want to deal with Toxic Masculinity? Men have been working on that for 6,000 years, and we have made so much progress that now almost every man is trusted to vote.

But what about the dark side of women? Historical female irrelevance means nobody has really confronted this yet. You know how in every multi-stage problem-solving process, the first step is admitting that you have a problem?

When society takes that one small step, it will be a giant leap for femalekind.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

The News was for men, which means it was like an action movie. Lots of explosions and violence and epic stories of raw power.

As things got feminized "human interest" stories started showing up. "Human interest" meant "female interest", as if men are not human.

Now The News is clucking henparty of gossip, high society scandal, emotionalism, social conformism enforcement, and etiquette policing/high society shibboleth fads.

"Out of a combined 14,000-plus minutes of the national evening news broadcast on CBS, ABC, and NBC last year, a grand total of five minutes were devoted to Afghanistan..." - Tyndall Report

[handmaiden]

Another problem with the news is they can sometimes make such a big stink when a woman is missing/abducted/killed. For awhile there all they could report on were instances (often exaggerated) of men assaulting/coercing/harassing women with sexual intent.

If women hear about these things, they will think about them and worry about the possibility of such things happening to them, so of course, they will be anxious. In the good old days, people did not discuss these sorts of things publically. People could pretend these things didn't happen in decent neighborhoods in good families.

Nowadays, you hear about this stuff happening all the time. This shows that we shouldn't be talking about it. It will only happen more if we keep discussing it. So, if those liebral news personalities REALLY cared about women's safety, they would stop reporting these sorts of stories. Women would certainly be less anxious and depressed if they hear about all those bad things on the news.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

In the past, it was agreed that ladies were not worry their pretty little heads with the corrupting and sordid world of politics and current events.

The News was for men, which means it was like an action movie. Lots of explosions and violence and epic stories of raw power.

As things got feminized "human interest" stories started showing up. "Human interest" meant "female interest", as if men are not human.

Now The News is clucking henparty of gossip, high society scandal, emotionalism, social conformism enforcement, and etiquette policing/high society shibboleth fads...

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt

So in short, the news has gone from average-minded to small-minded. It used to be a boring and serious thing watched by boring and serious adults. Now it's middle-school gossip.

[Johny Joe Hold]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt

So in short, the news has gone from average-minded to small-minded. It used to be something boring and series, to be watched by boring and serious adults. Now it's middle-school gossip.

Well said, Brother Jeb. All of us need to step up our game by choosing the biggest issues of our time. If we ignore the most important matters it leaves an opening for Satan and his sin. Whether its our children or adults, the same rules apply.

We need to up our vigilance on homerism. That requires observing children carefully, where they go in their private time, who they visit and what they watch and read. The same goes for liberal Democrats. We cannot have them acting as if they can cavort around doing whatever they want to do.

[Jeb Stuart Thurmond]

Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond

My Thought: Porn is horrifying.

At ~7:45 the host brings up porn and it's dismissed as a joke within a second or two:

This is a huge blind spot, and today's blind spot is tomorrow's "I swear it just came out of nowhere".

[Johny Joe Hold]

I think that once a young girl reads that Eve was the cause of the original sin she should be put on suicide watch until she is under the supervision of a husband. The sin label sticks to women like glue and suicide is one of the consequences.

[Dennis Lukes]

My younger daughter Bertha (pictured above) has confided to her mother that she is depressed because no man has sexually harassed her. I allow my children to watch Fox News with me, and she has heard all about the liberal Jew Harvey Weinstein and the typical nigra buck Bill Cosby, and she's wondering "why not me too?"

[Sally Paulson]

She has your eyes. Also she has your everything else.

[Dennis Lukes]

Originally Posted by Sally Paulson

She has your eyes. Also she has your everything else.

Thank you! She's 15, though, and is starting to fear that she will NEVER be betrothed!

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by Sally Paulson

She has your eyes. Also she has your everything else.

I thought she had the look of a brunette Fulvia Pellegrino. Maybe if she went blonde she'd have more success?

[Dana723]

Originally Posted by Dennis Lukes

My younger daughter Bertha (pictured above) has confided to her mother that she is depressed because no man has sexually harassed her. I allow my children to watch Fox News with me, and she has heard all about the liberal Jew Harvey Weinstein and the typical nigra buck Bill Cosby, and she's wondering "why not me too?"

I have five sons, all well built and handsome, in their teenage years. Perhaps we could come to some arrangement...?

[Dennis Lukes]

Originally Posted by Dana723

I have five sons, all well built and handsome, in their teenage years.

I don't know, maybe if you had a son who was... less than handsome and not so well built, he'd have more of an appreciation for... inner beauty. Bertha is a good Christian gal, meek and submissive. She is a darn good cook and loves to read her Bible. As far as Jesus is concerned, she'd make an excellent wife, but sinful vain secular qualities such as appearance lay prejudice against her.


Now, take a look at my other daughter.

Rebecca. She's 19 and beautiful by secular standards. But by Biblical standards she's ugly as a donkey's anus! She was our first child, and we weren't as good at finding the relevant Bible verses on childrearing (by the time we had our fifth and last, Kenny, we practically had them memorized). I tried everything over the years to knock some fear of God into her. I tried yelling at her, I tried beating her with a belt, I tried making her sleep in the attic, I tried locking her out in the yard overnight in the winter, but nothing worked. She never took to the Lord Jesus. "Put down that science book and pick up the Bible, nerd!" I'd say. But she wouldn't listen. I don't know how many times I had to take copies of Harry Potter out of her hands and consign them to the fire. All the little harlot wanted to do was listen to Avril Lavigne and Green Day CDs and do homework and play soccer and volunteer at the animal shelter. What a wanton little delinquent!


And, when she turned 18 last year, instead of getting married and pregnant, she up and ran off to college! Said she wants to become a counsellor to help survivors of child abuse. Can you believe that nonsense? A woman with a job? I believe she's even abandoned Jesus and become a Democrat! I've tried rebuking her and to bring her back to God, but she's stopped taking my calls and has even blocked me on the Face Book.


So the moral of the story is that a pretty face can hide an evil mind. All the boys salivated over her, and she will, unfortunately, burn in Hell for eternity. Bertha repels suitors like a roadkill skunk, but she is a Christian and will be welcomed by Our Lord with open arms.

Originally Posted by Dana723

Perhaps we could come to some arrangement...?

How much we talking?