I think the problem here is that you can’t actually market this thing to people who don’t know about cars. There’s no wool-pulling. It’s not like the Urus (I finally have an excuse to drive a Lambo!) or some heritage-laden tweedmobile (Careful with the Jag, darling).

Lots of car names became famous to normies for…

The sooner that Harley transitions to being a more general-audience motorcycle company and the sooner they get out from under that gruesome image/lifestyle identity that they’ve lived on for the last four decades - what was once their marketing hook is now suffocating them - the better off they will be.

Let me offer the perspective of someone who went there two years ago, about a week after the first article was published, in the effort to buy his grey 16v scirocco:

I called him wednesday that week to ask if he still had it. he said he did. we negotiated a price of $800 and i told him I would be there between 1-2pm on…

Yes. Though it would be better had the book never been written, him taking ownership of his actions now will be cathartic for those who, like me, were led to believe there was something terribly wrong with us if we wanted to experience dating even in a Christian setting. I was kicked out of my family at 15 for being…

As one who was in Harris’ position - a member of a highly-controlled Christian church for a majority of his adult life (20 years to be exact), married in the church, then divorced, then choosing to leave the church, then losing most of my social relationships as a result, then having to deal with the ensuing regrets…

I’m just sad at all the time he lost to that lifestyle. All the time we all lost.

And with Joshua Harris, “homeschooled and indoctrinated” is a bit of an understatement. His dad was one of the pioneers of the evangelical homeschooling movement in America going back to the 70s.

If I still was judged by my beliefs at 21, I would not be happy.

You don’t undo a lifetime of indoctrination in one day and it’s not just because you’re making money off it. It’s not just beliefs and a church he had to disentangle from, it was probably the majority of his close friendships and even family. From the sounds of it, it ended his marriage. And yeah, it was also his…

I agree with you. If this guy is sincere in his move away from the views of his past, then I say welcome. While I am not nor I have I ever been religious, I live in a deeply religious area of the country. It requires a tremendous amount of strength for people in the grip of that community to reject it it and get out…

I dunno, people do change that late in life, and change dramatically. It’s why we have the term “midlife crisis”, and it’s seen so much in pop-culture.

This change is a good thing. I think we should support and encourage it so more are more likely to do so, instead of being so cynical about it.

yeah, this book & surrounding culture fucked me up for a while. there's a part of me that wants to be like "fuck this dude and the wreckage he caused" and then there's the other part of me that thinks this is actually a pretty good apology, and of course people need to be allowed to fuck up and then figure it out. i…

I’m sure there is a ton of progressives that were in the same boat and him and didn’t try to make money off selling people on a toxic lifestyle. He was 21 when he wrote the book, but he is 44 now. People don’t just make a huge switch like this late in life. Likely he has been feeling different for a minute, but didn’t…

Being raised super evangelical (and being super gay), his book and others like it made my life a living hell. That said, I can’t really muster any anger for him now. I know what that childhood is like, and I can imagine that being home schooled and writing that book at 21 was probably the product of some very…

I think it would behoove us to remember our liberalism here, and realize that while the guy wrote the book, it was millions of adults who foisted it on their kids because it said what they wanted to hear. It takes a village to make a movement, and speaking as someone who grew up the burned-over rural red America in…

Yeah, it’s a crime the pain he caused, but he was a 21 year old indoctrinated into a belief system, writing about something he probably had almost no experience with.

I have to imagine that when he was a twenty-one year old homeschooled evangelical who’d never experienced any of the stuff he denounced through anything other than the lens of his parents telling him how awful it was, he was probably pretty sincere. That doesn’t make any of it less awful, but he wasn’t so much a…

Yes, it would have been nice if he had realized this before he wrote his book, however the book was a reflection of part of that culture and someone would have written something similar.

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