The woman in this story had no value at all till a man decided to treat her as if she had absolutely stunning beauty even though she wasn’t attractive at all. To me, though, one of the story’s biggest problems involves how glowingly it speaks of women’s value. There’s not one element of this story that isn’t disturbing and ickie, from the facts of its setting to the comparison to Jesus. The punchline is always a comparison to Jesus.
STEWART ALLEN CLARK FULL
There’s not even any negotiation or haggling! OMG! He really wanted this woman! And she finds out how much she cost and gets really proud of herself, flowering into her full potential and everyone’s all impressed. Single Dude offers the father a shockingly-high number of cows for his daughter. So he comes to a father whose daughter is known to be very ugly. Families in his culture sell their daughters to their future husbands, with the currency being cows - somehow. But I think it comes from a Mormon movie, Johnny Lingo, made in the late 1960s.īasically, there’s this single man on a Pacific Island. I heard it when I was Pentecostal from visiting missionaries. Stewart-Allen Clark’s blathering reminded me of a story evangelicals used to like a lot. Men, of course, need feel no similar obligation. It falls to powerless women to bash their brains out meeting elusive, shifting standards of beauty. Unless a man finds a woman sexually irresistible, she has no inherent value otherwise. Nothing like that.Ĭlark speaks as one of the power ful in evangelicalism addressing the power less members of the tribe.Īnd he’s telling those powerless members that their value rests entirely in how appealing they are to the male gaze. Nor is he talking about any kind of healthy relationship where each partner does their best because that’s just the right thing to do, and where partners support each other knowing that when they need it, their partners will be there for them in turn. More importantly, it reveals why he felt entitled to give it in the way that he did. But this fact simply lays bare what’s really happening with his advice to women.
Someone on Facebook mentioned a Mother’s Day sermon in 2019 that was so bad that at least one family got up and walked out of the church before Clark finished.Īlso of course, Clark himself is hardly a slender reed. But it might be the first time it’s been publicized like this. Of course, this was hardly the very first time that Stewart-Allen Clark has delivered a disgustingly misogynistic sermon. The Message Stewart-Allen Clark Will Never Understand. So the chances are extremely good that this scandal might just turn into a public-relations nightmare for every single man in church leadership in that whole town. It looks like they’re trying to use damage-control methods that work on small towns absolutely dominated by evangelical blowhards. But I’m not sure they understand how the real world works. All the other evangelical leaders over and around Clark are seriously doing their level best to contain this catastrophe.
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