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Bethany Mannon

@drbethany.bsky.social

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Rhetoric & Writing professor in Appalachia, studying feminism & Christianity | UConn | Penn State | academic who gets peer reviews done on time

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 5d

My book about evangelical women telling their stories just won Book of the Year from the Religious Communication Association!

What a tremendous honor. I love this book and I am so glad people think it has something worthwhile to say.
www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...

"I Grew Up in the Church" - Baylor University Press

In 'I Grew Up in the Church': How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who have inf...

www.baylorpress.com

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 5h

Good. This is how to condemn toxic masculinity without using the phrase, which is a conversation-ender at this point

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Zach W. Lambert @zachwlambert.bsky.social · 7h

If every time I condemn sexism, nationalism, white supremacy, and homophobia/transphobia you assume I’m condemning Christians, that tells me all I need to know about your version of Christianity.

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 6h

They need to talk about the Argentina bailout every day forever -- corruption that CLEARLY comes at the expense Americans.

Homan is bad too, but more people will shrug and assume everyone was always doing that

Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 6h

Was he surprised? what did he expect the private equity firm to do?

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 6h

I loved it! Such a bummer that there won't be another season

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Hellscape Navigator @hellscapenavigator.bsky.social · 10h

A Republican man is just a special little guy until he’s 40. A liberal woman is a harlot and a devil worshipper the instant she has a bank account.

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 8h

Love being ruled by stable geniuses who are completely secure in their masculinity. So fun.

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 8h

I think there's just more content that's been churned out, including Bible apps, during the past 6 years

Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 8h

Maybe JD is just having that age dysphoria that millennials can relate to. "Since I, at 40, am fresh and youthful, those 30-year-olds are just babies."

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

A state senator's racist text. A thirty-something GOP flack saying "I love Hitler." To JD Vance, they're all just "a kid telling a stupid joke."

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 8h

They're following Trump more closely than Christ

Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 9h

And not in a good way?

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 9h

what is curd cheese?

Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 9h

Either he genuinely loves it or he can come up with some excuse why that's not actually what it is

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 14h

Excuse me, the domestic what?

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 14h

They want their supporters to come out and be violent towards #nokings demonstrators

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 15h

They are going to egg each other into worse and worse atrocities until they are checked and stopped. The more depraved they are, the more viral they go, sending the country into a downward spiral. www.offmessage.net/p/governing-...

Governing For The Gram

Republicans are obsessed with finding non-existent connections between Democrats and "the violent left" Meanwhile...

www.offmessage.net

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 16h

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 16h

Thank you for following up on this story

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 17h

Well, clearly, the solution here is for them to get jobs that provide insurance

Tennessee Lookout @tennesseelookout.com · 17h

Hundreds of thousands of more children in the United States are going without health insurance, and experts warn that actions by the Trump administration and Congress will likely make the problem worse.

A closer look at what’s driving the rising rate of uninsured children • Tennessee Lookout

Hundreds of thousands of more children in the United States are going without health insurance, and experts warn that actions by the Trump administration and Congress will likely make the problem…

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 17h

I thought we were dumb-shaming her

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Andy Karl-son of Kong @andykarlson.bsky.social · 17h

Frogs vs Toadies

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 17h

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I see a picture of her I think "am I supposed to think she's hot?" and whenever I read her writing I think "am I supposed to think this is smart?"

Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 1d

More of this! Daily!

Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 1d

a woman says " why do men have to behave like this " while looking at her watch

ALT: a woman says " why do men have to behave like this " while looking at her watch

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Bethany Mannon @drbethany.bsky.social · 1d

boss bitch

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