Aww what’s up are people voting Green and not Labour affecting your desire for a two party system that reproduces neoliberalism for all eternity? Don’t worry your readers will still be rich so you can continue to advertise Rolex and Bentley to them

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For the modern era I think 19th century muscular Christianity could be a fun place to start - basically a Victorian movement to make Christianity less soy and gay. @cdjtheology.bsky.social also just wrote a book (Sacrmental Transfeminism) on the ppl who wanted it to be soy and gay

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@badinfinity2.bsky.social has written (Glorious Bodies) about renaissance controversies around viewing Christ as androgynous which I think also touches on anxieties about the feminisation of Christianity. I think there are also roots to this in antiquity come to think of it.

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In the medieval era Hildegard of Bingen used this exact narrative to justify her teaching though. She described her times as weak and womanly, arguing that this made it appropriate for her to go around telling people to get it together.

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There's a longstanding narrative in Christianity since the church fathers that virtuous women masculinise themselves, which I think rests on the idea that Christianity is manly. Maybe there's some gender anxiety in this but idk if that's quite the dynamcy you're thinking of

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