I nearly cried when I had a tentative conversation with a guy I see all the time at my local coffee shop. Super nice guy....wearing a Liberty University t-shirt. Turns out his son was starting his 2nd year at Liberty U, around the time Jerry Falwell Jr + Wife were front page news. I asked him what he thought about…

This is kind of missing the point. The evangelical refrain is “I’m not perfect, just forgiven”. This is the ultimate logical conclusion of the Reformation: the Protestant argument that one’s good works are irrelevant to salvation, only faith matters. The evangelicals are surprisingly tolerant of ethical faults by one…

72 percent of white evangelicals approve of Trump’s handling of his presidency .

Please don’t ruin this for me. I have so little.

I agree, and will add that they have far too much influence in this country. Trump is a symptom, but evangelicals are a big part of the cause.

Pretty sure evangelical leaders know that they are full of shit too. It’s their chosen con - duping bible thumpers into donating more than they can afford to “jesus’ coffers”.
He runs real estate cons. They run religious cons. They combine their wonder twin powers for mutual gain.

This kinda reminds me how I read in some book that men who have children do less housework after, even if the household was pretty equalitarian before. I feel like covid only makes it worse from what I can see observing my coworkers

You’re probably right, and if the mother is a lawyer, this kid probably has a lot of advantages. However, if this particular mother says, “Forget about school this year,” then she either has to A) find other ways to occupy the kid, or B) just have the kid entertain herself.

YES!!!!! And the little annoyances of school — other kids talking out of turn, general boredom with over explanation of simple tasks, etc. — result in “MOM - can I log off” or “MOM - this is so dumb.” If they were in school they’d just tough it out and cope. The little interruptions every 20-40 minutes makes it nearly…

I know that this is overwhelming a challenge for the moms, but if the ratio is x:1, I’m the 1, and I have some random notes.

The more I read about how women are struggling with child care and work now, the more it seems like the progress women have made over the last ~60 years has been less about men taking on “female responsibilities” and more about the prevalence and availability of day care.

For general parenting, sure, but for remote learning specifically?

I agree, this year has put a terrible strain on virtually all relationships. That’s basically what I told myself earlier this year: that there could be a million reasons why she was MIA, and I shouldn’t leap to the worst conclusion.

Sure. But most two-three year olds don’t have a an expectation of what Halloween is/was and so you wouldn’t need to salvage some idea of it like you would for older kids who are already missing out on so much. 

Yeah, I was surprised to see so many stories from parents of 2 year olds. It’s like, anything you do to celebrate Halloween is for YOU and the ‘gram. Your kid won’t remember it, just stay in your damn house!

Governor Brian Kemp was a member of this chapter. So, yeah.

I’m an LXA alum from a different chapter. These guys can fuck right off, and I personally would have kicked their asses out of the chapter when I was active ten plus years ago if they had said it then. I’m not going to pretend we were a bastion of tolerance and understanding back then, but there was a line and these…

“Fight China, got it.”

Yeah. I’ve noticed this. Every new blogger sounds like a 15 year old talking to their mother about clothes for awhile to me. Just when I start to get fond of them they go off and do other things... Except Rich. He refuses to write about anything in a tone that could possibly make me fond of him.

It is my belief that the readers of Jez are at least a decade if not two older than the writers and it creates a weird mix of James Charles/Bella Thorne with Ellen DeGeneres/Brad Pitt.