More gender expression obsession to be had on Benett’s show today courtesy of guest Christine Sneeringer, Executive Director of Worthy Creations:
(+22:45) Christine: God is God, I am not, and that he made me and he made my gender. And that was part of his grand plan and it was supposed to be a good plan and so [stutters] I wanted to, you know, I had to repent of my bad attitudes towards my gender and try and embrace it, and it was awkward but I do enjoy today being a woman.
Irene: You’re a beautiful girl.
Christine: Well thank you I [interrupted]
Stephen: A woman Irene, a woman.
Irene: Well the older you get the less you want to be called “woman.”
[laughter]Christine: That means a lot because uh, like I said being called sir for so many years it’s nice when people can say, “wow you’re not bad at all.” I don’t usually get called that which is great.
This is truly bizarre how these ex-gays are pre-occupied with making it a sin to express one’s gender in a way unfamiliar to strangers. Who knew Bennett cared so much about how other people perceive his appearance. However is not the only occasion when Bennett has tried to foist this absolute nonsense, which has NOTHING to do with sexual-orientation on his followers. Let’s not forget the threat posed by Canadian clowns wearing tutus. But that’s nothing in comparison to we’re Bennett’s mission outreach to Providencetown where he gave his volunteers t-shirts colored to match their gender and noted it on his website. (That page on his site has since been taken down but Google cache has preserved it for us.)
The bus parked and we all split into groups of two. The storage doors underneath the bus opened, exposing the awesome sight of over a thousand white gift bags. Each bag had the phrase “You Are Truly Precious in God’s Eyes” printed in pink – the symbolic color of “gays” and lesbians. The bags matched the phrase printed on the special t-shirts we all wore – white shirts for men, pink shirts for women.
I’m sorry, if my former therapist Nicolosi tried telling me the way strangers perceived my personal appearance was a sin I probably would have laughed my way right out his office door and gotten over the whole ex-gay thing even sooner.
This just seems to bring strong evidence that ex-gays in general are completely uncomfortable with themselves. They have to exist in a constant state of extremes. Either they are homosexuals with severe sexual/drug problems or born-again christians with a fear of alchol or relaxing of gender roles. Wayne Besen made a great example of that death grip on gender roles.
But I think their clowns in tutu’s is also a valid point. Feel free to disagree with me, but our society is making an effort to emasculate men and boys at every turn. Boys are no longer allowed to fight, roughhouse, or play tag in the schoolyard. Their normal expressions of just being guys have been stifled into that of a neutered male, completely unable to be well boys. That is a very unnerving compenent of our society because society is now raising men that look to the government before they defend themselves instead of just fighting for what they believe in. So yes there is something unsettling about the neutering of American males. Once again it is just forming people that cannot be themselves, whatever that may be. Gays and lesbians need to embrace their masculine and feminine features, otherwise we end up with SB.
This Bennett guy and those whose validation does lie too much in gender extremes, really make me cringe.
When it comes to appearance, that isn’t subject to HIS opinions or other men just like him.
There is nothing that will be strictly male or female in nature.
Some people are naturally stylish and cultivate their appearance in first their professional culture, then their ethnic one.
A person who has a sense of style could get away with wearing anything, if they know themselves well.
By Bennett’s logic, a woman is reserved and non threatening (at least by male standards) and smaller and weaker.
This is supposed to be the accepted norm.
And women’s street instincts are also being numbed…to their peril by aggressive or violent men.
The domestic abuse ratio speaks to that.
There are roughneck boys…fine when they are roughnecks with EACH OTHER.
And there are boys who are less so.
That’s called a variation from person to person.
But the culture at large need only be concerned with these things:
But good manners, sense of fair play and equal standards of respect for a fellow human being, those things transcend gender, culture, color or religion.
At least we know deep down, they SHOULD.
BTW….I’ve been shaving my head for nearly 20 years now.
And I’m a woman.
Wonder what Bennett would say about that?
Once again, the myth that there are only two genders is promoted by the “pro-family” movement. Apparently the existence of intersexed people is completely a fiction created by those who want to destroy America (/end sarcasm).
As for the alleged “neutering” of boys – my own nephews and their friends, who live in Massachusetts (the boys are 8 and 6), show absolutely no signs of that. No teachers trying to make them stop running around at lunchtime, no forced Ritalin, nothing of that kind. I fear that is another urban myth.
This whole myth about gender and it affirming your sexuality is bogus. No reputable science exists to bakc it up. I did a pretty good job with the science part here.
http://joebrummer.com/WordPress/?p=79
Regan, my wife’s bald by choice, too. And beautiful as all get-out. I’m sure you are, too!
I’m very femme in many ways, but that’s just what complements my looks and nature, not an effort to please anyone but myself. What’s wonderful to look at, in women or men of any sexual orientation, is someone who knows what works for them and is comfortable with who and what they are. That’s what makes SB and his wife hard to look at for me.
Just for the record, I believe I have found the only true radio station to carry STR – KLTT 670 AM in Denver. It’s a 50,000 watt Christian station and apparently the one SB was talking about in the beginning. In this original press release, they say STR is debuting in “8 states”, which turns out to be the coverage area of KLTT. In true SB fashion, we are left to assume that stations in 8 states are carrying the show, when in fact that is not the case. This is similar to letting people assume that you have done work for major celebrities when in fact you have not. Read “about the artist” and see what impression you get.
I know it may seem like picking nits but this is a pattern with SB. He doesn’t mind telling lies if he thinks it will help him to his goal, be it selling pictures out of his garage or a “radio show” recorded there. Or for that matter, all those phantom boyfriends who supposedly died of AIDS. The point is, when one finds it so easy to lie about so many little things, why should they be believed about the bigger ones?
At any rate, if you want to complain about the show, there’s the place.
David
Thanks, David, for sharing the info about the Denver station. I’m glad to hear the ‘radio’ aspect of STR isn’t a fabrication. I’m not sure why SB didn’t answer questions about this – unless he didn’t want to acknowledge that (perhaps) only one station carries the broadcast. And yes, I agree it is disingenuous to promote that it airs in 8 states when it is really only airing FROM one state.
Thank you Jayelle, my regards to your wife!
I get compliments all the time, so I’m getting away with it.
It got me lots of work here in Hollywood and I don’t regret it for a minute.
It’s just oh SO liberating!
It’s not that I’m trying to make a political statement (about the only time I’m not). Nor was it about getting attention. That just happens.
But people take it for granted that’s why I shave my head.
But the real reason?
Have one bad hair day too many and see what you do!
I wear my hair close cropped, and not only does it look masculine and sexy on me, it is, as Regan notes, a great way to avoid bad hair days.
Everyone has their own personal preferences, but I’m attracted to guys who have what I call a “natural masculinity.” And obviously if you are gay, there are certain things that attract you to your own sex that the opposite sex doesn’t have. If sex didn’t matter, I’d be bisexual.
Mark, you make an interesting point.
Personally, I was always attracted to femme guys –
so, of course, because the Universe has a wicked sense of humor, I wind up falling in love with and marrying a tall, butch, bisexual guy.
Never had that ‘am I masculine enough’ panic – just was never a concern.
If ONLY, straight people would accept these simple facts:
1. they aren’t the only orientation that matters in this big world in all there is to be a great human being
2. gay people just aren’t into them
That last statement I made was because I was listening to straight folks talking trash about gay folks.
I’m ready to scream at them, what part of gay folks don’t wanna BE you and HAVE you, don’t straight folks understand?
And most importantly, gay folks shouldn’t have to feel guilty or be punished for those reasons.
Sometimes the higher level of intellectual exchange can’t be had.
One is challenged to come up with simpler reasoned responses.
I”m sho nuff working on it folks!
please people enjoy yourself and your sexuality it all we have for are idenity. if you wear short hair love it love yourself most of all…have a very merry christmas and a gay new year,,,,,