Blogaround

1. My 2023 Reader Survey will be open until June 19. Thank you to everyone who has already taken it!

2. Asexual and Aromantic People Are Often Forgotten, But God Sees Us (June 1, via) "Imagine a God who didn’t need a romantic and sexual relationship, whether in the heavens or incarnate here on earth. Imagine a God who told the church to honor singleness so that the people could be freer to serve around the known world. Imagine a God who told the church be a new kind of family that was united not by bloodlines, but by providing for and embracing the orphans, widows, the sick, the abandoned, the meek, and the 'least of these.' Imagine a God who made aromantic and asexual people fully human, imago dei, without being defined by the drive for sex and romance."

3. Yasmin Benoit is NYC Pride’s first asexual grand marshal & she’s ready to change the status quo (June 7) "So in the UK, if you did want to use asexuality as grounds for discrimination or grounds for access to something or grounds to escape something, you can’t. Because it doesn’t exist in society’s eyes. Technically, it’s pretty much a disorder over here."

4. Yeah this pretty much sums up my religion:

one of the beautiful things about the queer community is it does many of the things christianity should do

— Mason Mennenga (@masonmennenga) June 10, 2023

5. Pat Robertson, Televangelist Who Blamed Gay People for 9/11 and Hurricanes, Dies (June 8) Yes this is the correct way to write his obituary.

This one too: Pat Robertson Leaves Behind Legacy of Hatred & ‘Untold Damage’ (June 8)

6. The Myth of "Male Socialization" (May 19) "Especially those seen as white men. Trying to fill the function of a man. And as a result they get resentful. We get angry. We're doing all the right things, we're trying to be this thing that strips us of everything, and yet we still aren't doing it good enough. We don't see our purpose being fulfilled. We can't be who we're supposed to be. And we aren't even given the tools to express who we actually are. So we're just angry. Angry at everything." 1-hour-49-minute video from Jessie Gender.

7. One Of The Best (& Easiest?) Logic Puzzles Ever (June 4) 35-minute fillomino solve video.

8. Asexual Seduction in Some Like It Hot (June 10) "Some Like It Hot prominently features a subplot where a man seduces a woman by pretending that he's asexual. This gambit combines multiple different ploys to appeal to her, but a core part of it involves him presenting himself as passive, pitifully dysfunctional, and in need of sexual intervention. And the weirdest thing about that? It works. Because, like I said, this is a movie where people are attracted to people who don't want them back."

9. Taylor Swift - Delicate (2018) I like this song.

10. Male Passivity: Does the Danvers Statement See the Problem the Right Way? (June 13) "In the video, Crowder sits smoking a cigar while he orders his eight-months-pregnant-with-twins wife to give the dog its medication and accuses her of a lack of respect when she tries to suggest it might be better if he do it. He is the very picture of passivity, relaxing while others work around him, but do we see the Gospel Coalition or Desiring God or any other bastion of the Evangelical Industrial Complex decrying Crowder for his horrible behavior?  The silence is both deafening and telling."