With Strange Fire

Tag: Purity Culture

  • The Tyranny of the Simple Blue Jean Skirt

    When a simple garment is a flashback point for some of your worst moments in high demand religious organizations. This popped up bright and early this very morn on my social media feed. The humble modest blue jean skirt. Merely one among a pile of “mend it/remake it” videos involving sewing I sometimes peruse. Costa…

  • Patriarchal Ideas in Modern Culture – We Need to Talk About “Game of Thrones” and Sexual Consent

    Daneris Targaryen and Khal Drogo Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer published on No Longer Quivering Patheos on April 26, 2014 How can we expect the ideas of sexual consent by women to be understood by people such as Chris Jeub when patriarchal fundamentalist ideas of rape and purity culture have been adopted by many way, way…

  • Is This Modest?

    My shoes. About the only part of a woman’s body, her feet, that Christian men do not judge! Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on January 11, 2014 Editor’s note: This was written about a long defunct website isthismodest.com owned and operated by a man who used photos of teenage…