Its not about “having good kids” etc to the people involved in this movement. Their express desire is to have as many kids as possible, guide them to be highly involved in politics, and literally create a Theocracy through sheer numbers. Get enough families in the same area have dozens of kids, who then have dozens of…

I’m so sorry that’s happened to you. Truly. I hope things are better & that you're doing ok. None of that was your fault. I hope the duggar girls know that they aren’t to blame as well but knowing what I do about the quiverfull movement I very much doubt it.

Keep sharing your story (if you’re comfortable doing so). It’s people like you who help shed light on this behavior being culturally systemic rather than a bad seed.

The sexual assault is bad enough. The fact that he victimized his sisters & that he & his family have made a career out of saying gay & transgendered people are perverts who will molest children & shouldn’t be allowed to marry put this whole thing over the top on the “you-piece-of-shit-ometer”.

I was reared Pentecostal (4th generation) from birth until I was not so politely told to leave my family’s house (I was 21 at the time, and it was time for me to go), and I can personally attest to a very wide range of criminal offenses (varying in degrees of severity) for which the church (the one my family went to)…

They’re parents in technical terms only. The oldest girls raised their younger siblings – Michelle calls it a buddy system, but she wasn’t the one getting up with the babies in the middle of the night. On camera, she and the younger kids are so uncomfortable interacting with each other that I get the impression it’s…

I’m trying so incredibly hard to contain my anger at the ignorant comments I’ve been reading. I was raped by my brother throughout my childhood. It wasn’t innocent “playing doctor” and it certainly didn’t fucking matter how old he was. The power and size difference were very real. That same brother is now under…

Yup! I remember when Elizabeth Smart was rescued, she said years later she never escaped when she could’ve because she had been raped repeatedly, and she thought her family wouldn’t love her anymore because she wasn’t a virgin. Typical family teaching abstinence and ~waiting for marriage.

And surprising no one, also hypocrites, especially the mom who made (now supremely ironic) robocalls ensuring that people knew how “dangerous” transgender women were to their precious, precious daughters all the while covering shit like this up.

It pisses me off that the family protected the BOY but they did nothing to protect the girls, because fuck women, right? They’ll get over it. Our boy is the one who needs protection. Where is your sexual education now, Jim Bob? Where are your values? What were those chaperoned dates for? And side hugs? And saving…

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Read the linked In Touch article. They did not turn him in, nor did he get counseling of any kind.

Purity culture is a part of rape culture. I'm not shocked by this at all.

Those who have been hate-watching the Duggars for a while have wondered what would finally be the thing that would cause TLC to pull the plug. I think we have it. And let’s see if TLC will actually provide the victims some meaningful professional help.

They have PLENTY of money now. Jim Bob is a professional grifter who owns multiple real estate properties. These sickos are millionaires. Lucky for their children they are, and always will be, able to provide for them.

If you read the report, you can clearly see that the victims were his sisters. Jim bob and Michelle are named as the victims parents

She lived to tell..

This is one of the only hate-on-Madonna comments that I can actually get with, because I don’t think you’re being an ageist jerk. Like...that’s a valid point.

Exactly. She's never struck be as being happy.

A radio station where I live is playing these contest spots where a listener can “win” a private workout session with Madonna and her fitness guru, and I’m like, HARD PASS. NO THANK YOU, PLEASE. I’ve never wanted to win a contest less.