By Jake & Brooke
Dr. James Dobson is a clinical psychologist, founder of Christian media empire Focus on the Family, a spiritual advisor to every Republican President since Reagan, and a paragon in the Evangelical
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Did you enjoy that break from Dobson? Thinking about how we can make the world a better place for everyone? That was nice, huh. Anyway, that's not what this episode is. Today Jake and Brooke are talking about perhaps THE Dobson book, "The Strong-Willed Child" and talking about what the hell Dobson means by "strong-willed".
Check out "The Worst of All Possible Worlds": https://www.worstpossible.world/
References:
"Before you donate to Autism Speaks, Consider the Facts" from AutisticAdvocacy.org
"Personality" from APA.org
"The Autistic Horror of Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (season 1)" by Patricia Taxxon on Youtube
"The Controversy Around ABA" from ChildMind.org
"What are the Big 5 Personality Traits" from VeryWellMind.com
"Why The Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless" from Vox.com
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Let's not talk about James Dobson, for once! After spending 3 long episodes talking about the plague known as "purity culture", today Jake and Brooke explore what an actually healthy model of relationships and sexuality can look like. Be ready to hear the words "penis and vagina" a bunch of times.
Citations:
Braun-Harvey, D., & Vigorito, M. A. (2015). Treating out of control sexual behavior: Rethinking Sex Addiction. https://openlibrary.org/books/OL30396741M/Treating_out_of_control_sexual_behavior
Comprehensive sexuality education. (n.d.). https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/comprehensive-sexuality-education
Green, P., Psy. D., & Penrod, J., LMFT. (n.d.). Sexual diversity, sex positivity, and kink.
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Today we are reading our first non-Dob book, though unfortunately his spirit remains with us. This book will help you not become a childless cat lady or whatever, because it wants to tell you the right way to have a relationship. I'm sure things all check out this time and there's nothing bad in this episode at all.
Citations:
Joshua Harris’s apology: https://joshharris.com/a-statement-on/
No, kids weren’t starting to have sex earlier: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4011992/
Van Der Wyngaard, J (Director). (2018). “I Survived I Kissed Dating Goodbye” [Film]. DOCSology.
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Let's get into it, what an absolute nightmare. On this episode, Jake and Brooke break down what exactly 'purity culture' even means, down to its rotten roots. Horrifying histories, awful anecdotes, and blood-boiling beliefs abound in this one.
Citations (hyperlinks do not work on every platform)
About the AIDS quilt
Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs from Planned Parenthood
Can Antibiotics Affect My Birth Control? From Planned Parenthood by Attia
Purity Culture and Its Effect on Mental Health from VeryWellMind by John Loeppky
Rickabaugh, T (2022), Leaving Church, Learning Love: Experiences of Queer Women in Purity Culture. University of Missouri.
Sex and HIV Education (2023) from the Guttmacher Institute
The FAQs: What You Should Know about Purity Culture from TheGospelCoalition by Joe Carter
The Flaw at the Center of Purity Culture from The Atlantic by Angie Hong
The Impact of Christian Purity Culture is still being felt – including in Britian from TheConversation by Christabelle Thwaites
The Racist Link Between Purity Culture and Christian Nationalism and Why It Matters In Elections from Reckon.news by Anna Beahm:
What is Purity Culture from Lindakayklein.com
Why Nearly Every 2000s Disney Channel Star Wore a Purity Ring from Cracked.com by Carly Tennes
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James Dobson does it again: he wrote another book that makes me want to crawl out of my skin and die. The hits really don't stop coming, huh. This time, we are reading the toxic sludge known as "Bringing Up Girls". This is the start of a series about Purity Culture, the Evangelical philosophy that says holding hands is basically the same as having an affair (and both will earn you a scarlet A). Hold on to your lunches because this gets downright disgusting.
References:
“An Ecological Approach to Obesity and Eating Disorders. Chapter 10: Prevalence of Eating Disorders in Men versus Women.”
Randy Wilson’s Page on the FRC website
The Colorado law Dobson misconstrues so he can fear-monger about queer people
FotF Media Commitment (previously Covenant)
Why Abstinence Only Education suuuuucks
Dobson’s challenge
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Let's get personal! On this episode, Jake takes Brooke and Jordan through his experience becoming an Evangelical in order to understand how anyone could get sucked into Dobson's obvious lies. We talk about everything from AWANA to Adventures in Odyssey, from bell choirs to Christian rock bands, from racist chipmunks to youth group lock-ins.
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Happy pride month, heathens! Today, Jake and Brooke are joined by our first very special guest: Jordan! Together, we are taking a step back to marvel at Dobson's illustrious career as a professional homophobe. We trace Dobson's denial of homophobia, his active homophobia, and the hydra of political organizations he has created. Turns out, sometimes conspiracy theories are true: Dobson literally conspired in secret with others to push homophobic and misogynistic policies at every possible level of government.
Works Cited (hyperlinks do not work on every podcast player, my apologies)
“A Nation Shaken by the Sandy Hook Tragedy” broadcast by Dobson – Dec 17, 2012
After Obergefell
“Ballot measures in 11 states, all successful, aided the president’s reelection bid and helped to swing the momentum, for a time, to the side of the anti-gay Right.” - https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/revolution-anti-gay-activists-threaten-uprising-if-supreme-court-approves-marriage-equality/
Dr. Dobson's September Newsletter – Sept. 2019
Evangelical Broadcaster Seeks “Pro-Family” Lobby by Russell Chandler
Family Policy Alliance Financial Reports 2020 & 2019
Focus on the Family focuses on homosexuals
FRC fighting conversion therapy bans
FRC’s connection to FPCs
Gallagher, S. “Where Are the Antifeminist Evangelicals? Evangelical Identity, Subcultural Location, and Attitudes toward Feminism.” Gender and Society (2004)
“God will destroy America for legalizing sexual perversions”
Homosexuality and Dr. Dobson: What’s at Stake in American Christianity?
Moslener, Sara, Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence (2015)
SPLC on FRC
The Homosexual Community: Small number, big influence
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Here's where things get interesting. In this episode, Jake and Brooke explore Bringing Up Boys from a cultural perspective, then do a deep dive into one of the most harmful chapters James Dobson has written - and that's saying something. There's stuff in this episode that will shock you, I promise. (Is it in bad taste to make a conversion therapy joke? No I'm gay, I can get away with it.)
References
Umberto Eco, "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt," The New York Review of Books, June 22, 1995.
Kruglanski, A. W., Szumowska, E., & Kopetz, C. (2021). The Psychology of Extremism. In The Psychology of Extremism (pp. 1-11). Routledge.
Stone, Peter. “US ‘university’ Spreads Climate Lies and Receives Millions from Rightwing Donors.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 6 Sept. 2023, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/06/prageru-climate-change-denier-republican-donors.
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Buckle up boys and girls (and NO ONE ELSE!), things get unhinged this time around. Jake and Brooke talk all about Dobson's commercially-successful trash fire called Bringing Up Boys. There's cringe, there's trauma, there's holy bones - this episode has it all.
Sources:
"Animal Sex: How Anglerfish Do It" (2015) from LiveScience.com
Studies about how human sexual dimorphism is vastly over-blown:
"One Day of ‘Take a Child to Work’ Is Short on Substance : Boys are now being invited to join the formerly all-girl event. But it’s doubtful kids find our jobs worth imitating. It may be better to just share the pride of accomplishment." Los Angeles Times (1995)
Johnson, L.B. (1991). On the front lines: Police stress and family wellbeing. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families House of Representatives: 102 Congress First Session May 20 (p. 3248). Washington DC: US Government Printing Office.
Neidig, P.H., Russell, H.E. & Seng, A.F. (1992). Interspousal aggression in law enforcement families: A preliminary investigation. Police Studies, Vol. 15 (1), p. 3038.
Leopold, T. (2018). Gender differences in the consequences of divorce: A study of multiple outcomes. Demography, 55(3), 769-797.
"The Coming Attack on an Essential Element of Women's Freedom" (2023). by Kimberly Wehle, The Atlantic
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