Thoughts on Mark Driscoll’s “pussified nation” comments as William Wallace
Posted by Sappho on September 9th, 2014 filed in Feminism, Theology
“Ok so I’m a penis home… never heard that one before.” said one of my Facebook friends. So I clicked through to the article on the Raw Story about the Mars Hill mega-church closing several branches, and dismissing a pastor who called for the resignation of church founder Mark Driscoll, in the wake of the discovery of hundreds of inflammatory comments that Driscoll made years ago, under the Internet pen name of William Wallace II. Some are focused on the “pussified nation” post, others on the fact that he described women’s role as providing a home for a penis (and, naturally, most of us have broader ideas of what our lives are for), and another blogger ties the series of rants to Driscoll’s own hangups about sex and the problems in his marriage at the time he took on the William Wallace persona. I pick the pussified nation post, because it’s long, and rambling, and odd.
- I am, first, struck by just who Driscoll called “pussified,” here; it’s the “pussified James Dobson knock-off crying Promise Keeping homoerotic worship loving mama’s boy sensitive emasculated neutered exact male replica evangellyfish.” It’s the youth pastors who advise young evangelical men, and it’s the “men’s accountability group” where Johnny learns to “keep his urges under control.” This is the world that Driscoll, in his William Wallace II persona, denounced as “pussified” and overly cowed by feminism. Really?
- “take one to bed and make the Song of Songs sing again” is a nice turn of phrase. I’d like to rescue it from the rant in which it’s trapped, and stick it in a short story, or something.
- “the more hell looks like a good place because at least a man is in charge” reminds me of Satan in Paradise Lost: “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.”