God-Honoring Snark

#[God-Honoring Snark] [This interactive narrative discusses themes that may be distressing, including misogynistic language, violence against women and children, and pregnancy loss. Please take care of yourself and proceed at your own comfort level!] (link: "Okay")[(go-to: "Beginning")]

|||== (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[<img src="Images/Keepers.png" alt="A KJV Bible is open to Titus 2:5 on a table, surrounded by flowers, printed certificate, and badges." width=500rem>] (if:visits >= 2)[This is an image from my childhood scrapbook of my first and only Keepers at Home ceremony. The text in this caption is drawn from the mission statement of Keepers at Home, which seeks to equip girls to become stay-at-home daughters or future wives and mothers. Its companion program, Defenders of the Faith, trains young boys to advocate for Christian Patriarchy in the public sphere.] ==||| (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[A screenshot of an Instagram post depicting an awards ceremony for young girls floats across your screen.] (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[You (cycling-link: bind $familiarity, "have never seen anything like this before", "think this seems familiar, but you aren't sure", "flash back to church camp, evangelizing, and itchy formal clothes on Sundays")] (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-delay: 6s)+(t8n-time: 2s)[(link-goto: "You decide to read the comments", "Keepers Description")]

[It's the middle of the afternoon on a (weekday:), in that hazy lull between lunch and the end of the workday, and you're scrolling through Reddit.] (t8n-delay: 2s)+(t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[An endless scroll of cat memes,] (t8n-delay: 5s)+(t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[people querying whether they're the asshole in their interpersonal relationships,](click-append: "asshole")[ (they usually are)] (t8n-delay: 9s)+(t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[more cat memes.] (t8n-delay: 12s)+(t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[But then, something [[new]].]

[As you continue to read, you are ](cycling-link: bind $reaction, "amused", "confused", "intrigued", "horrified")[.] (set: num-type $relationality to 0) ||||= (css: "font-size: 75%")+(link-reveal-goto: "u/subtweetsermon: I was a sort of stay-at-home daughter during college, I guess. I'd come home in the summer to help my mom with my siblings. I don't want to judge people who choose to stay at home, but a lot of the times I think they’re not really given a choice. They have to stay home until they get married.", "Reaction")[(set: $relationality to it +1)] =|||= (link-reveal-goto: "u/fullfrontalhugs: I’d like to be a stay-at-home daughter! Just in my current living situation, which is in my own home with some cats.", "Reaction")[(set: $relationality to it +0)] =|||| (link-reveal-goto: "u/seasonofsingleness: //stay-at-home-daughter// is a creative way to avoid admitting that you're freeloading. A sahd contributes just as much to society as some neckbeard living in his mom's basement, she's just managed to convince herself that it's god-honouring when she does it.", "Reaction")[(set: $relationality to it -1)]

(storylet: when $familiarity is "have never seen anything like this before" and $reaction is "amused" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [You've never heard of most of the people, books, or organization snarked on in this subreddit, but it all looks absurd. A grown woman gets married in a dress she picked out when she was thirteen and praying for a husband, everyone has a //servant's heart// that guides them to //keep sweet// through every //season of life//, and teenage sons are shuttled about the country to preach at various churches and gather donations for the family.] [By the time you find yourself chuckling over homegrown memes about the School of the Dining Room Table, bad cooking, and a funeral service held for someone's legs, you realize you're [[hooked->Comments2]].] <img src="https://i.redd.it/7gbsfj9vc6q81.jpg" width=500px>

(storylet: when $familiarity is "have never seen anything like this before" and $reaction is "confused" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [What is a "fundie" and what sets them apart from other religious or conservative groups? Why is there a subreddit devoted to snarking on them? And what is snark?] [You vaguely remember hearing about [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [But as you continue to scroll, you realize most of these redditors have never been fundies themselves. How did they learn about all [[this->Comments2]]?]

(storylet: when $familiarity is "have never seen anything like this before" and $reaction is "intrigued" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [What is a "fundie" and what sets them apart from other religious or conservative groups? Why is there a subreddit devoted to snarking on them? And what is snark?] [You read about [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [But as you continue to scroll, you realize most of these redditors have never been fundies themselves. How did they learn about all [[this->Comments2]]?]

(storylet: when $familiarity is "have never seen anything like this before" and $reaction is "horrified" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [What is a "fundie" and what sets them apart from other religious or conservative groups? Why is there a subreddit devoted to snarking on them? And what is snark?] [As you scroll through the posts and comments, you learn about [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [Is this really what all the jokes are [[about->Comments2]]?] <img src="https://preview.redd.it/35p0o5k1jit71.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e1c3d9fb8cf8006c96ec6202e1267fcc4810cd3a" width=500px>

(storylet: when $familiarity is "think this seems familiar, but you aren't sure" and $reaction is "amused" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [You've only vaguely heard of most of the people, books, or organization snarked on in this subreddit, but it all looks absurd. A grown woman gets married in a dress she picked out when she was thirteen and praying for a husband, everyone has a //servant's heart// that guides them to //keep sweet// through every //season of life//, and teenage sons are shuttled about the country to preach at various churches and gather donations for the family.] [By the time you find yourself chuckling over homegrown memes about the School of the Dining Room Table, bad cooking, and a funeral service held for someone's legs, you realize you're [[hooked->Comments2]].] <img src="https://i.redd.it/7gbsfj9vc6q81.jpg" width=500px>

(storylet: when $familiarity is "think this seems familiar, but you aren't sure" and $reaction is "confused" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [What is a "fundie" and what sets them apart from other religious or conservative groups? Why is there a subreddit devoted to snarking on them? And what is snark?] [You vaguely remember hearing about [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [But as you read through everything, you realize most of these redditors have never been fundies themselves. How did they learn about all [[this->Comments2]]?]

(storylet: when $familiarity is "think this seems familiar, but you aren't sure" and $reaction is "intrigued" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [What is a "fundie" and what sets them apart from other religious or conservative groups? Why is there a subreddit devoted to snarking on them? And what is snark?] [You vaguely remember hearing about [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [But as you continue to scroll, you realize most of these redditors have never been fundies themselves. How did they learn about all [[this->Comments2]]?]

(storylet: when $familiarity is "think this seems familiar, but you aren't sure" and $reaction is "horrified" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [What is a "fundie" and what sets them apart from other religious or conservative groups? Why is there a subreddit devoted to snarking on them? And what is snark?] [As you scroll through the posts and comments, you learn about [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [Is this really what all the jokes are [[about->Comments2]]?] <img src="https://preview.redd.it/35p0o5k1jit71.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e1c3d9fb8cf8006c96ec6202e1267fcc4810cd3a" width=500px>

(storylet: when $familiarity is "flash back to church camp, evangelizing, and itchy formal clothes on Sundays" and $reaction is "amused" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [You remember many of the people, books, or organization snarked on in this subreddit, but it all looks absurd. A grown woman gets married in a dress she picked out when she was thirteen and praying for a husband, everyone has a //servant's heart// that guides them to //keep sweet// through every //season of life//, and teenage sons are shuttled about the country to preach at various churches and gather donations for the family.] [By the time you find yourself chuckling over homegrown memes about the School of the Dining Room Table, bad cooking, and a funeral service held for someone's legs, you realize you're [[hooked->Comments2]].] <img src="https://i.redd.it/7gbsfj9vc6q81.jpg" width=500px>

(storylet: when $familiarity is "flash back to church camp, evangelizing, and itchy formal clothes on Sundays" and $reaction is "confused" and visits is 0) [As you scroll through the posts and comments, so much of it looks familiar.] [You remember [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [But as you read through everything, you realize most of these redditors have never been fundies themselves. How did they learn about all [[this->Comments2]]?]

(storylet: when $familiarity is "flash back to church camp, evangelizing, and itchy formal clothes on Sundays" and $reaction is "intrigued" and visits is 0) [As you scroll through the posts and comments, so much of it looks familiar.] [You remember [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [But as you read through everything, you realize most of these redditors have never been fundies themselves. How did they learn about all [[this->Comments2]]?]

(storylet: when $familiarity is "flash back to church camp, evangelizing, and itchy formal clothes on Sundays" and $reaction is "horrified" and visits is 0) [You fall hard down the rabbit hole.] [As you scroll through the posts and comments, you remember [[stay-at-home daughters->Stay At Home Daughters]], [[homeschooling->Education]] and [[blanket training->Blanket Training]], and [[Quiverfull->Quiverfull]] [[courtships->Courtships]].] [Is this really what all the jokes are [[about->Comments2]]?] <img src="https://preview.redd.it/35p0o5k1jit71.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=e1c3d9fb8cf8006c96ec6202e1267fcc4810cd3a" width=500px>

<img src="Images/Scrolling.gif" alt="A hand-drawn animation of someone scrolling through colorful posts on a smartphone." width=600rem> (link-storylet: "You read further.", 1)

[Most of the conversations seem to be about [[reproductive autonomy, gendered expectations, and misogyny->Storylet: Motherhood]].]

(border: "groove")+(corner-radius: 8)[u/tradwifepixiedreamgirl: Is it just me, or is some of the snark just as bigoted as the fundies? Almost every day I see hella misogyny, condescending comments about levels of education or language or origins. //Are we the baddies?//] (t8n-arrive: "fade")+(t8n-time: 2s)[You type a response: ] (t8n-delay: 4s)+(t8n-arrive: "fade")+(border: "groove")+(corner-radius: 8)(cycling-link: bind $firstResponseChoice, "Eh, I wouldn't say it's as bad, but maybe sometimes it crosses the line, like making fun of women's postpartum bodies.", "Yeah, some of the snarkers are no better than the people we snark on. so many act like any place outside their liberal oasis must be literal hell holes.", "Sometimes the critique can be a little harsh, but the fundies are shit people so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯", "idk, i think it's important to show how fucked up fundie beliefs are, but maybe the sarcasm gets lost", "it's weird virtue signaling imo") (t8n-delay: 8s)+(t8n: "fade-up")+(t8n-time: 6s)|1>[...someone else is responding.] (click-replace: ?1)+(border: "groove")+(border-color: white)+(corner-radius: 8)+(t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 1s)[{ (if: $relationality is >0)[ u/tradwifepixiedreamgirl: agree. there's not really any point to snarking if we're just gonna replicate the same messed up beliefs, even if it's trying to be funny ](else-if: $relationality is 0)[ u/minigolfdryhumping: Snark //is// kind of a parasocial relationship tho. Does anyone really think the fundies are going to change based on random internet snark? ](else:)[ u/tatertwatcasserole: The fundies can just log off lmao. The internet is a public place. ]}] (t8n-delay: 25s)+(t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 5s)|2>[You consider this.] (click-replace: ?2)+(border-color: white)+(border: "groove")+(corner-radius: 8)+(t8n-arrive: "fade")[After a moment, you type out a new comment in response.(input-box: bind $firstReply, "XXX=", 5)] (t8n-delay: 35s)+(t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 5s)[You wait for a [[reply.->Story]]]

[u/severelyperformativemodesty: Why is there so much misogyny in snark? I'm just genuinely curious. I've noticed there's a lot more harsh criticism towards the women (not saying that the women don't deserve it though to some extent, at least with their sm posts, and what not). I've noticed the men tend to get away with a lot more shit though most of them are just as responsible if not more responsible for their families being the way that they are. It's utterly frustrating sometimes as woman to see especially because I think the men deserve just as much flack that the women get, and I was just more or less wondering why it's like this.] ||||= (link-reveal-goto: "u/godhonoringjeanskort: It’s the fundies’ fault, they give us biased material. When fundie women get on their high horse about stuff when we know they’re not following their own standards, it sticks out. Like “by your own standards you ain’t shit.” They can stop being bigots if they want us to stop snarking.", "Responding")[(set: $relationality to it -1)] =|||= (link-reveal-goto: "u/legfuneralofficiant: I think snarkers are mostly women, and women can be especially viciously nasty to other women. Some of the stuff that goes around does have an element of self-hatred. Some of it sounds like jealousy. And some of it is just the kind of things that we, as women, have learned (from other toxic women) is an acceptable way to judge another woman's worth.", "Responding")[(set: $relationality to it +0)] =|||| (link-reveal-goto: "u/smugsmilesdefined: I'm just here to agree with you. Men set up these cults, men control these cults, men subjugate, objectify, traumatise and belittle the women and girls in these cults, men sustain these cults, yet the convos revolve around whether a woman has a prolapsed uterus or if her skin looks like shit.", "Responding")[(set: $relationality to it +1)]

(storylet: when $checkpoint is 1 and visits is 0) |||== <img src="Images/Motherhood.png" alt="A young child in a fancy floral dress plays outside a church. In the caption, the author writes that women belong in the home to train, discipline, and rear their children in godly ways, or else the strength of the nation would crumble." width=500rem> (if:visits >= 2)[This is a photo of child!me on Easter Sunday. The caption is an almagation of public statements by a prominent Christian fundamentalist and anti-feminist, Lori Alexander, a frequent subject of snark in r/FundieSnarkUncensored.] ==||| (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[u/franklingrahamsscorn: Something I’ve been thinking about is how many Fundie women try to ‘sell’ full-time homemaking and mothering, but how many actually enjoy it? Obviously, there's nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom. It's just that when they push so hard for this being the only 'right' way but also talk about how hard everything is, I have to wonder. Most people don't enjoy motherhood 100% of the time, which is understandable, but I feel like Fundie women act like you’re supposed to and that’s the goal. Thoughts?] (enchant:?link's 2ndlast + ?link's last, (button:)) (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)[u/greengableslarp: I’m sure some do, but they’re not the ones we hear from, because they’re too busy raising their kids and keeping their house in order to spend hours making picture-perfect posts for social media.] (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)+(link-reveal-goto: "Upvote", "Motherhood")[(set: $relationality to it +1)+(set: $checkpoint to 1)] (t8n: "fade")+(t8n-time: 4s)+(link-reveal-goto: "Downvote", "Motherhood")[(set: $relationality to it -1)+(set: $checkpoint to 1)]

[In an online forum, users gather women’s social media posts to critique their writing, fashion, and bodies. Comments refer to the “clown car vaginas” of women with many children, mock one woman’s post-partum “vagasshole” caused by tearing during birth, and suggest that a childless woman has been cursed with infertility because she does not deserve to reproduce. ] [It looks like any other cesspool of misogynist discourse found in the corners of the Internet, but the participants in this forum see themselves as political liberals, feminists even. The women under scrutiny are Christian fundamentalists dedicated to recruiting other women to a life of narrowly-circumscribed modest femininity, submissive heterosexual marriage, and dedication to raising as many children as possible to be “arrows for the Lord ” in what they see as a war for a Christian America.] [The views of these women are unquestionably egregious and their public platforms circulate these harmful views to audiences of vulnerable women and girls. By mocking these public lifestyle posts, participants in the forum seek to delegitimize their [[fundamentalist->Fundamentalist]] views and drive them from the public sphere. But at what point does mockery of misogynist Christian fundamentalism become harmful misogyny itself? This is the question driving a snarking schism and reevaluation of ethical snark on several popular [[subreddits->Reddit]].]

[Christian fundamentalism is a theological orientation that prioritizes the innerrancy of Scripture, favors a "common sense" understanding of the text, and requires believers to separate themselves from the secular world.] [While fundamentalism can occur across Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant denominations, it is commonly associated with movements like the Independent Fundamental Baptists, the New Independent Fundamental Baptists, and the Holiness Movement.] [Due to their separation from the secular world and interpretation of the Christian Bible, members of these movements often distinguish themselves through strict gender roles for men and women, a patriarchal family structure, and withdrawal from mainstream education and medical systems.] [[[Back->Story]]]

[Reddit is a pseudonymous social media platform created in 2006 that brands itself as the “front page of the internet.” It hosts a variety of subreddits, or forum-based communities, dedicated to everything from political issues to lifestyle communities to niche media or hobby interests, that aggregate content from across the Web. Users create a username but supply no other biographical information, in contrast to identity-based sites like Facebook and its subsidiaries or networking sites like Twitter or LinkedIn, which makes collecting demographic information difficult, but anecdotally, the majority of users are U.S.-based and the site caters to a “geek” male sensibility. As a partial result of this anonymity, the site has gained notoriety as a homebase of “the manosphere,” or a collection of websites hosting and proliferating alt-right, incel, or violently misogynist content, and in 2020, reddit administrators updated its lax hate speech policies, resulting in the quarantine or deletion of subreddits found to be propagating dangerous content. Nevertheless, reddit remains a hub for both prosocial and antisocial [[discourse->Snark History]].]

[Snarking on fundamentalist Christians is not new or confined to Reddit. Fundie-snarking is a popular activity across multiple platforms from Facebook groups to Tumblr blogs to dedicated pages like FreeJinger and the Fundamentalist Wiki. Many of these groups repurpose the tools of fandom to aggregate and critique content produced by fundamentalists and the snarkers who love to hate them.] [Snarkers participate like fans in many ways. They follow the posts and updates of fundamentalists, create fanfiction in the form of satirical narratives, and speculate about upcoming “plot points” by meticulously tracking data and creating uncannily accurate predictions of the next fundamentalist courtship, marriage, or birth announcement. The difference between fans and snarkers, however, lies in their orientation towards their subject. While fans may critique their “problematic faves,” there is a general appreciation for the media with which they engage. Snarkers, on the other hand, define themselves in contrast to their subjects, using snark to reify the divides between fundamentalism and their own identities even as many snarkers, such as myself, are ex- or post-fundamentalists.] [The fundie snarking community on Reddit is relatively new to the snarkosphere. The earliest fundie-snarking subreddit is r/DuggarsSnark, formed in 2018 to snark on the Arkansas family famous for their TLC show, 19 Kids and Counting. As the subreddit rapidly grew in popularity, users who wanted to snark on a wider range of fundamentalist families formed r/FundieSnark in the same year. Like r/DuggarsSnark, r/FundieSnark ballooned in popularity, reaching 75,000 subscribers by 2020.] [This increase in popularity, however, set the conditions for the ethical schisms to [[follow->Schism]].]

[As r/FundieSnark grew in popularity, the tone of the snark became increasingly vitriolic.] [There are roughly three levels of snark operating at once in the snarkosphere: theoretical, hypocrisy, and base snark. Theoretical snark is labor-intensive critique of fundamentalist theology or philosophy drawing on source texts and careful proofing. Hypocrisy snark is mid-level snark that identifies inconsistencies between fundie beliefs and fundie practices (e.g. a fundamentalist may publish a book with extensive lists of modest and immodest garments, then themselves wear “immodest” garments). Base snark mocks a fundamentalist’s physical appearance (not clothing choices), health, class status, or other unchangeable or difficult to change aspects of their identity.] [The r/FundieSnark subreddit rules prevented thread drift (off-topic conversations) and “leg-humping” (fawning comments about the fundamentalists) as determined by the volunteer moderator team. These rules were intended to prevent the subreddit from spinning into a catch-all discussion of anything related to fundamentalist, evangelical, or conservative Christianity, and users found breaking the rules would be temporarily banned from the forum. In practice, moderators enforced these policies harshly. Positive or neutral comments of any kind, including comments about infants and children, were removed and posters were issued temporary bans. The moderators appeared to target posters sharing relevant information that identified them as mothers--the removed comments were often accompanied by a moderator’s quip to “save it for your mommy blog.” The result was a body of snark that continued to find the lowest bar, mocking women’s postpartum bodies, struggles with infertility, and the appearances of infants and children.] [Something had to [[change->Change]].]

[The irony of snarking on misogynist beliefs with more misogyny was not lost on some snarkers. In response to the concentrated misogyny in r/FundieSnark, a cohort of members broke off to create r/FundieSnarkUncensored (FSU) in August 2020.] [The “Uncensored” in the name is not an invitation to no-holds-barred snark. Instead, it’s a tongue in cheek reference to the moderation practices of the parent sub, r/FundieSnark. The founders and moderators of FSU would no longer “censor” participants for organic conversations or storytelling, including comments on positive or neutral behaviors displayed by the fundamentalists.] [The initial founders and moderators of FSU deliberately reframed the scope of snark to prevent the subreddit from sliding into ever more extreme comments. In FSU, conversations, story-telling, and positive comments on any non-bigoted behavior exhibited by fundamentalists were welcomed rather than deleted by moderators. This moderation change led to a major pivot that sets FSU’s discourse apart from other snark communities: when participants were allowed to share stories and hold conversations rather than being goaded towards ever more pointed snark, conversations about the ethics of snarking [[bloomed->Ethics]].]

[To learn more about the developing conversations in r/FundieSnarkUncensored, we can use computational topic modeling to look for themes across the community's first year.] [After gathering all of the text posts and comments posted to r/FundieSnarkUncensored between August 2020 and August 2021, I used [[Latent Dirichlet Allocation->Methods Detailed]] to look for topics, or themes, within each month's content.] [While many of the topics pertained to specific happenings in the fundie-sphere--like courtships, weddings, and births--other themes persisted across months and point to the core values of r/FundieSnarkUncensored.] [These themes include [[the boundaries of ethical snark->Community Boundaries]], [[bodily autonomy and reproductive choice->Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy]], [[analysis of gendered power dynamics->Power, Gender, and Relationships]], [[storytelling->Storytelling]], and [[shared discussions of abuse and trauma->Discussions of Abuse and Trauma]].] (if:visits >= 1)[After these conversations, how can we engage snark, relgious misogyny, and our own engrained biases more [[reflexively?->Reflexive]]]

|||== <img src="Images/Motherhood.png" alt="A young child in a fancy floral dress plays outside a church. In the caption, the author writes that women belong in the home to train, discipline, and rear their children in godly ways, or else the strength of the nation would crumble." width=500rem> ==||| [u/franklingrahamsscorn: Something I’ve been thinking about is how many Fundie women try to ‘sell’ full-time homemaking and mothering, but how many actually enjoy it? Obviously, there's nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom. It's just that when they push so hard for this being the only 'right' way but also talk about how hard everything is, I have to wonder. Most people don't enjoy motherhood 100% of the time, which is understandable, but I feel like Fundie women act like you’re supposed to and that’s the goal. Thoughts?] (enchant:?link's 2ndlast + ?link's last, (button:)) [u/chorusofvictorianghostchildren: Mother shouldn't enjoy herself. Mother is for sex, dishes, and diapers. Should mother find herself with a free moment she should remember that she's probably destroying her family.] (if:visits >= 2)[(This is sarcasm.)] (link-reveal-goto: "Upvote", "Motherhood2")[(set: $relationality to it +1)+(set: $checkpoint to 1)] (link-reveal-goto: "Downvote", "Motherhood2")[(set: $relationality to it -1)+(set: $checkpoint to 1)]

|||== <img src="Images/Motherhood.png" alt="A young child in a fancy floral dress plays outside a church. In the caption, the author writes that women belong in the home to train, discipline, and rear their children in godly ways, or else the strength of the nation would crumble." width=500rem> ==||| [u/franklingrahamsscorn: Something I’ve been thinking about is how many Fundie women try to ‘sell’ full-time homemaking and mothering, but how many actually enjoy it? Obviously, there's nothing wrong with being a stay at home mom. It's just that when they push so hard for this being the only 'right' way but also talk about how hard everything is, I have to wonder. Most people don't enjoy motherhood 100% of the time, which is understandable, but I feel like Fundie women act like you’re supposed to and that’s the goal. Thoughts?] (enchant:?link's 2ndlast + ?link's last, (button:)) [u/loopholesforthelord: Fundies: “life is SACRED!!! from the moment the sperm meets the egg!!!!” Also fundies: “absolutely have kids even if you don’t want them, you’ll ~~definitely~~probably love it 💖”] (link-reveal-goto: "Upvote", "Motherhood3")[(set: $relationality to it +1)+(set: $checkpoint to 1)] (link-reveal-goto: "Downvote", "Motherhood3")[(set: $relationality to it -1)+(set: $checkpoint to 1)]

[There are so many conflicting expectations.] (cycling-link: "Women belong in the home", "Women have a right to bodily autonomy", "Women should exercise sexual and reproductive agency", "Women who have a lot of children are oppressed", "Only women can bear children", "People with harmful beliefs don't deserve to have children", "Women can have careers and run a household") [It's a lot to [[navigate->SnarkThemes]].]

[The stay-at-home daughters movement, recently promoted by the Botkin Sisters in their <a href="https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/house-proud/troubling-rise-stay-home-daughters" target="_blank">books</a> //Return of the Daughters// and //So Much More//, advised young women to stay under the //headship//, or spiritual authority, of their fathers until that headship could be transferred to their husbands through a marriage covenant.] [Stay-at-home daughters typically do not work outside the home, pursue higher education, or date. Instead, they devote their time to serving their families, often helping their mothers raise younger siblings.] [(link-undo:"Return")]

[<a href="https://www.healthline.com/health/parenting/blanket-training#takeaway" target="_blank">//Blanket training//</a> is a child-rearing method promoted in Michael and Debbi Pearl's book //To Train Up a Child//. As advocates for a patriarchal, authoritarian family structure, the Pearls advise parents to use corporal punishment on children as young as six months old through methods such as blanket training. Their book has been <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Train_Up_a_Child#Controversy" target="_blank">linked</a> to the deaths of several homeschooled children.] [The following passage describes physical child abuse that may be difficult for some readers. Please (link-show: "read with caution!", ?Description)] |Description)[A child is placed on a blanket on the floor. If the child moves from the blanket, their parents are supposed to hit them across the back of the legs with an "age appropriate" switch, as determined by the guide in //To Train Up a Child//. Enticing objects, like favorite toys, may be placed just off the edges of the blanket to test the child's obedience. Eventually, the child will learn to stay on the blanket, no matter what distractions are nearby, allowing the parents to leave the child there relatively unsupervised while they tend to other household needs.] (link-undo:"Return")

[//Quiverfull// is a cross-denominational <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102005062" target="_blank">movement</a> that encourages heterosexual Christian families to allow God to set their family size. Pragmatically, this means forgoing any form of birth control, for any reason, including the health of the mother, available financial resources, or the needs of existing children. Practitioners of Quiverfull express concerns that Christians who do practice family planning are denying themselves blessings, in the form of children, and contributing to a perceived cultural and demographic decline of Christians.] (link-undo:"Return")

[In contrast to the more common cultural practice of dating, //courtship// is a matchmaking practice common to many fundamentalist communities. While dating may range on the spectrum from casual to serious, a courtship is expected to lead to marriage, often requires the approval of the potential couple's fathers, and involves chaperoned meetings and communication to protect the sexual purity of both parties. While most men do not begin a courtship until they have the financial stability to support a wife and family, often in young adulthood, the age of courting varies for young women, prompting concern that this practice may enable <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/sh/ZPtmPISZPG/roy-moore-teen-girls-courtship/" target="_blank">child marriage</a>.] (link-undo:"Return")

[Homeschooling in the United States has a <a href="https://www.nheri.org/home-school-researcher-left-right-and-online-a-historic-view-of-homeschooling/" target="_blank">variety of roots</a>, from desires for more child-centric education, concerns about test and grading standards, and conflicts between family political and religious values and the public education system.] [Most fundamentalist homeschooling families align themselves with the homeschooling movement <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2001/11/the-new-counterculture/302341/" target="_blank">pioneered</a> by Dr. Raymond Moore, Dr. James Dobson, and the Home School Legal Defense Association, which advocates teaching children at home to protect them from exposure to secular ideas.] [Some homeschool graduates go on to pursue successful higher education and careers; others <a href="https://homeschoolersanonymous.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">write</a> about the educational and social harms they experienced as a result of isolated and only loosely regulated homeschooling.] (link-undo:"Return")

[Latent Dirichlet Allocation is a probabilistic topic modeling method.] [Let's say you have a stack of papers (a corpus of documents) about various topics, and you want to know what kinds of things are discussed in these papers, but you don't have time to read them all. Latent Dirichlet Allocation takes that stack of documents and breaks them down into words (tokens), then looks for patterns. We can safely assume that every document is about some topic or topics, and that those topics can be associated with particular groups of words. For example, if a paper is talking about theater, it might use words like "stage," "Shakespeare," "actor," or "play." If a paper is talking about sports, it might use words like "football," "score," "time," and "play." In a real-world scenario, each paper might be about multiple topics, and some words can be assigned to multiple topics, like the word "play" in this example, so the best strategy is to use probability to make an educated guess about groups of words within the set of documents. These are presented to the researcher, who then has to evaluate the coherence of each of these sets of words, or topics, and make adjustments to the model as needed.] [To learn more about Latent Dirichlet Allocation, you might find this <a href="https://blog.echen.me/2011/08/22/introduction-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation/" target="_blank">guide</a> helpful!] [[Back->Ethics]]

[Snark is (cycling-link:"complicated","cathartic","invasive","pointless","mean-spirited","educational").] [Fundamentalist women (cycling-link:"are complicated","are oppressed by patriarchy","have internalized misogyny","advocate for the oppression of other women","deserve autonomy","reproduce sexism, racism, and homophobia").] #[What does it mean to ethically [[snark->Final Reflection]]?]

[This theme is about community norms and expectations within r/FundieSnarkUncensored. Each slide depicts a wordcloud of the top 15 words from a topic discussing appropriate boundaries of snark, responses to inappropriate snark, or community moderation practices. The larger the word, the greater its relevance to this topic. Each slide is captioned with the month in which this topic was discussed and a brief contextual description.] --- ||||= [Most discussions of norms, boundaries, and moderation occured in the first three months of r/FundieSnarkUncensored's development. In these months, participants were concerned with setting boundaries around who could be snarked upon (only adult Christian fundamentalists with public-facing social media accounts), which topics were appropriate for snark (mockery of fundamentalists' bodies or speculation about their sexualities were prohibited), and how snarkers should engage sensitive topics, like illness or pregnancy loss. Further discussion of appropriate snark behavior occurs sporadically in later months, but these discussions are centered more tightly around specific events in the fundie-verse rather than general practices. Overall, these discussions around snark behaviors coincide with the most frequent use of storytelling and suggest that participants in r/FundieSnarkUncensored approach snark somewhat more relationally than participants in other fundie-snarking spaces--by placing their own experiences in conjunction with topics discussed by fundamentalists and setting clear boundaries around inappropriate or harmful snark behaviors, this community seeks to create a space that balances community support with critique of toxic ideologies.] [[Back->Ethics]] =||| [<body> <div class="slider"> <div class="slides"> <div id="slide-1"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/1.png"> </div> <div id="slide-2"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/2.png"> </div> <div id="slide-3"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/3.png"> </div> <div id="slide-4"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/4.png"> </div> <div id="slide-5"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/5.png"> </div> <div id="slide-6"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/6.png"> </div> <div id="slide-7"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/7.png"> </div> <div id="slide-8"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/8.png"> </div> <div id="slide-9"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/9.png"> </div> <div id="slide-10"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/10.png"> </div> <div id="slide-11"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/11.png"> </div> <div id="slide-12"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/12.png"> </div> <div id="slide-13"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/13.png"> </div> <div id="slide-14"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/14.png"> </div> <div id="slide-15"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/15.png"> </div> <div id="slide-16"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/16.png"> </div> <div id="slide-17"> <img src="Images/MetaTopics/17.png"> </div> </div> <a href="#slide-1">1</a><a href="#slide-2">2</a><a href="#slide-3">3</a><a href="#slide-4">4</a><a href="#slide-5">5</a><a href="#slide-6">6</a><a href="#slide-7">7</a><a href="#slide-8">8</a><a href="#slide-9">9</a><a href="#slide-10">10</a><a href="#slide-11">11</a><a href="#slide-12">12</a><a href="#slide-13">13</a><a href="#slide-14">14</a><a href="#slide-15">15</a><a href="#slide-16">16</a><a href="#slide-17">17</a> </div> </body> <style> * { box-sizing: border-box; } .slider { width: 30rem; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; } .slides { display: flex; overflow-x: auto; scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; scroll-behavior: smooth; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; /* scroll-snap-points-x: repeat(300px); scroll-snap-type: mandatory; */ } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 10px; height: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: black; border-radius: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: transparent; } .slides > div { scroll-snap-align: start; flex-shrink: 0; width: 30rem; height: 30rem; margin-right: 50px; border-radius: 10px; background: #eee; transform-origin: center center; transform: scale(1); transition: transform 0.5s; position: relative; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; font-size: 100px; } .slides > div:target { /* transform: scale(0.8); */ } .author-info { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); color: white; padding: 0.75rem; text-align: center; position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; margin: 0; } .author-info a { color: white; } img { object-fit: cover; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } .slider > a { display: inline-flex; width: 3rem; height: 3rem; background: white; text-decoration: none; align-items: center; justify-content: center; border-radius: 50%; margin: 0 0 0.5rem 0; position: relative; } .slider > a:active { top: 1px; } .slider > a:focus { background: #000; } /* Don't need button navigation */ @supports (scroll-snap-type) { .slider > a { display: none; } } html, body { height: 100%; overflow: scroll; } body { display: flex; align-items: top; justify-content: center; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #74ABE2, #5563DE); font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif; } </style> <script> // fetch('https://api.unsplash.com/photos/random/?count=5&client_id=52d8369eb3e2576a5f5b6423865e074e9c7045761bff1ac5664ff3e0bdb57a1d') // .then(response => response.json()) // .then(data => { // data.forEaach(function(image, i) { // document.querySelector("#slide-" + (i+1)).innerHTML = ` // <img src="${image.urls.regular}" alt=""> // <p class="author-info"> // <a href="${image.links.html}?utm_source=slider-thing&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit">Photo by ${image.user.name}</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> // </p> // `; // }); // }); </script>]

[This theme encompasses discussion of sexual and reproductive autonomy, both for fundamentalists and snarkers. Each slide depicts a wordcloud of the top 15 words from a topic discussing an aspect of bodily autonomy. The larger the word, the greater its relevance to this topic. Each slide is captioned with the month in which this topic was discussed and a brief contextual description. ''Please be aware that some of these topics and the following overview discuss violations of sexual and reproductive autonomy.''] --- ||||= [Discussions of sexual and reproductive autonomy are distributed relatively evenly throughout the first year of r/FundieSnarkUncensored, with a slight uptick in July related to former TLC star Josh Duggar's trial for possession of child sexual abuse materials. At first glance, it would appear that very little //snark// happens in these conversations. Most topics are serious in tone and express anger, concern, and sometimes shame about the dehumanizing treatment of women. These are heavy issues, and ones that resonate with the experiences and fears of many U.S.-based snarkers. Discussions of abortion access, the right to refuse sex within a marriage, and refusals of shame-based purity teachings draw heavily upon snarkers' own lives, which may contribute to their serious treatment. There are, however, experiences that are not widely shared and in which the tone of conversation differs. Discussions of specific reproductive practices--like eschewal of birth control, unassisted homebirths, and a desire to have many children in order to further one's religion--have prompted heated debate, as evidenced by their inclusion in the discussions about [[community boundaries->Community Boundaries]]. Questions of sexual and reproductive agency become more complicated when the enactment of that agency conflicts with shared social values. The topics within this theme interweave personal narratives with analyses of purity culture, patriarchal theology, and vulnerability in the lives of fundamentalist women and children.] [[Back->Ethics]] =||| [<body> <div class="slider"> <div class="slides"> <div id="slide-1"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/1.png"> </div> <div id="slide-2"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/2.png"> </div> <div id="slide-3"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/3.png"> </div> <div id="slide-4"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/4.png"> </div> <div id="slide-5"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/5.png"> </div> <div id="slide-6"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/6.png"> </div> <div id="slide-7"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/7.png"> </div> <div id="slide-8"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/8.png"> </div> <div id="slide-9"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/9.png"> </div> <div id="slide-10"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/10.png"> </div> <div id="slide-11"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/11.png"> </div> <div id="slide-12"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/12.png"> </div> <div id="slide-13"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/13.png"> </div> <div id="slide-14"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/14.png"> </div> <div id="slide-15"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/15.png"> </div> <div id="slide-16"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/16.png"> </div> <div id="slide-17"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/17.png"> </div> <div id="slide-18"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/18.png"> </div> <div id="slide-19"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/19.png"> </div> <div id="slide-20"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/20.png"> </div> <div id="slide-21"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/21.png"> </div> <div id="slide-22"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/22.png"> </div> <div id="slide-23"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/23.png"> </div> <div id="slide-24"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/24.png"> </div> <div id="slide-25"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/25.png"> </div> <div id="slide-26"> <img src="Images/ReproTopics/26.png"> </div> </div> <a href="#slide-1">1</a><a href="#slide-2">2</a><a href="#slide-3">3</a><a href="#slide-4">4</a><a href="#slide-5">5</a><a href="#slide-6">6</a><a href="#slide-7">7</a><a href="#slide-8">8</a><a href="#slide-9">9</a><a href="#slide-10">10</a><a href="#slide-11">11</a><a href="#slide-12">12</a><a href="#slide-13">13</a><a href="#slide-14">14</a><a href="#slide-15">15</a><a href="#slide-16">16</a><a href="#slide-17">17</a><a href="#slide-18">18</a><a href="#slide-19">19</a><a href="#slide-20">20</a><a href="#slide-21">21</a><a href="#slide-22">22</a><a href="#slide-23">23</a><a href="#slide-24">24</a><a href="#slide-25">25</a><a href="#slide-26">26</a> </div> </body> <style> * { box-sizing: border-box; } .slider { width: 30rem; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; } .slides { display: flex; overflow-x: auto; scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; scroll-behavior: smooth; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; /* scroll-snap-points-x: repeat(300px); scroll-snap-type: mandatory; */ } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 10px; height: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: black; border-radius: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: transparent; } .slides > div { scroll-snap-align: start; flex-shrink: 0; width: 30rem; height: 30rem; margin-right: 50px; border-radius: 10px; background: #eee; transform-origin: center center; transform: scale(1); transition: transform 0.5s; position: relative; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; font-size: 100px; } .slides > div:target { /* transform: scale(0.8); */ } .author-info { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); color: white; padding: 0.75rem; text-align: center; position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; margin: 0; } .author-info a { color: white; } img { object-fit: cover; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } .slider > a { display: inline-flex; width: 3rem; height: 3rem; background: white; text-decoration: none; align-items: center; justify-content: center; border-radius: 50%; margin: 0 0 0.5rem 0; position: relative; } .slider > a:active { top: 1px; } .slider > a:focus { background: #000; } /* Don't need button navigation */ @supports (scroll-snap-type) { .slider > a { display: none; } } html, body { height: 100%; overflow: scroll; } body { display: flex; align-items: top; justify-content: center; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #74ABE2, #5563DE); font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif; } </style> <script>] // fetch('https://api.unsplash.com/photos/random/?count=5&client_id=52d8369eb3e2576a5f5b6423865e074e9c7045761bff1ac5664ff3e0bdb57a1d') // .then(response => response.json()) // .then(data => { // data.forEaach(function(image, i) { // document.querySelector("#slide-" + (i+1)).innerHTML = ` // <img src="${image.urls.regular}" alt=""> // <p class="author-info"> // <a href="${image.links.html}?utm_source=slider-thing&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit">Photo by ${image.user.name}</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> // </p> // `; // }); // }); </script>]

[This theme encompasses discussion of gendered power dynamics within marital and filial relationships.] [Each slide depicts a wordcloud of the top 15 words from a topic discussing gendered expectations of women or children. The larger the word, the greater its relevance to this topic. Each slide is captioned with the month in which this topic was discussed and a brief contextual description. ''Please be aware that some of these topics discuss violations of sexual and reproductive autonomy.''] --- ||||= [While this theme is closely related to [[sexual and reproductive autonomy->Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy]], it focuses more broadly on social requirements rather than more intimate bodily experiences. Topics within this theme could be categorized into three lines of conversation: analyses of gendered dress expectations, speculation about particular fundamentalist marriages, and general comparisons of Protestant or Catholic teachings about marriage to Jewish teachings about marriage. The inclusion of interreligious analyses might seem surprising, since this is a community that only snarks on fundamentalist Christians, but as earlier topics about [[Community Boundaries->Community Boundaries]] demonstrate, conversations about antisemitism and the differences between Christian and Jewish ethics have percolated through the community since its inception. In these topics, snarkers begin to untangle actual Christian and Jewish beliefs from the misnamed //Judeochristian// belief system sometimes claimed by fundamentalists in order to better understand gender, power, and relationships in religious contexts. Overall, these topics find snarkers grappling with cultural and subcultural gendered expectations, the ways those expectations shape agency and behavior, and sometimes speculating about fundamentalists' personal lives through the lenses of snarkers' own concerns about gender and developing understandings of fundamentalist beliefs.] [[Back->Ethics]] =||| [<body> <div class="slider"> <div class="slides"> <div id="slide-1"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/1.png"> </div> <div id="slide-2"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/2.png"> </div> <div id="slide-3"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/3.png"> </div> <div id="slide-4"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/4.png"> </div> <div id="slide-5"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/5.png"> </div> <div id="slide-6"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/6.png"> </div> <div id="slide-7"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/7.png"> </div> <div id="slide-8"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/8.png"> </div> <div id="slide-9"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/9.png"> </div> <div id="slide-10"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/10.png"> </div> <div id="slide-11"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/11.png"> </div> <div id="slide-12"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/12.png"> </div> <div id="slide-13"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/13.png"> </div> <div id="slide-14"> <img src="Images/GenderTopics/14.png"> </div> </div> <a href="#slide-1">1</a><a href="#slide-2">2</a><a href="#slide-3">3</a><a href="#slide-4">4</a><a href="#slide-5">5</a><a href="#slide-6">6</a><a href="#slide-7">7</a><a href="#slide-8">8</a><a href="#slide-9">9</a><a href="#slide-10">10</a><a href="#slide-11">11</a><a href="#slide-12">12</a><a href="#slide-13">13</a><a href="#slide-14">14</a> </div> </body> <style> * { box-sizing: border-box; } .slider { width: 30rem; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; } .slides { display: flex; overflow-x: auto; scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; scroll-behavior: smooth; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; /* scroll-snap-points-x: repeat(300px); scroll-snap-type: mandatory; */ } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 10px; height: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: black; border-radius: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: transparent; } .slides > div { scroll-snap-align: start; flex-shrink: 0; width: 30rem; height: 30rem; margin-right: 50px; border-radius: 10px; background: #eee; transform-origin: center center; transform: scale(1); transition: transform 0.5s; position: relative; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; font-size: 100px; } .slides > div:target { /* transform: scale(0.8); */ } .author-info { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); color: white; padding: 0.75rem; text-align: center; position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; margin: 0; } .author-info a { color: white; } img { object-fit: cover; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } .slider > a { display: inline-flex; width: 3rem; height: 3rem; background: white; text-decoration: none; align-items: center; justify-content: center; border-radius: 50%; margin: 0 0 0.5rem 0; position: relative; } .slider > a:active { top: 1px; } .slider > a:focus { background: #000; } /* Don't need button navigation */ @supports (scroll-snap-type) { .slider > a { display: none; } } html, body { height: 100%; overflow: scroll; } body { display: flex; align-items: top; justify-content: center; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #74ABE2, #5563DE); font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif; } </style> <script>] // fetch('https://api.unsplash.com/photos/random/?count=5&client_id=52d8369eb3e2576a5f5b6423865e074e9c7045761bff1ac5664ff3e0bdb57a1d') // .then(response => response.json()) // .then(data => { // data.forEaach(function(image, i) { // document.querySelector("#slide-" + (i+1)).innerHTML = ` // <img src="${image.urls.regular}" alt=""> // <p class="author-info"> // <a href="${image.links.html}?utm_source=slider-thing&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit">Photo by ${image.user.name}</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> // </p> // `; // }); // }); </script>]

[This theme encompasses times when snarkers gathered to share personal stories about topics related to snark themes, like pregnancy experiences, or about snark practices themselves.] [Each slide depicts a wordcloud of the top 15 words from a topic in which snarkers tell personal stories. The larger the word, the greater its relevance to this topic. Each slide is captioned with the month in which this topic was discussed and a brief contextual description. ''Please be aware that some of these topics discuss pregnancy loss.''] --- ||||= [Storytelling topics are most prominent early in r/FundieSnarkUncensored's first year and seem to serve as guides for the development of [[community boundaries->Community Boundaries]]. These early storytelling episodes frame r/FundieSnarkUncensored in contrast to more stringently moderated communities and reflect how snarkers themselves are affected by participating in this community. Sometimes, snarkers share stories about their own experiences with common snark themes, like pregnancy and purity culture, putting their own memories and feelings in relation to those expressed by fundamentalist women in the media r/FundieSnarkUncensored snarks upon. At other times, snarkers tell stories about how the snark itself affects their lives, such as sharing how body-based snark targeted at fundamentalism hurts snarkers who share similar physical traits. Taken together, these storytelling topics gesture towards a growing sense of empathy towards fundamentalist women and their children, even as snarkers continue to critique their harmful beliefs.] [[Back->Ethics]] =||| [<body> <div class="slider"> <div class="slides"> <div id="slide-1"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/1.png"> </div> <div id="slide-2"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/2.png"> </div> <div id="slide-3"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/3.png"> </div> <div id="slide-4"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/4.png"> </div> <div id="slide-5"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/5.png"> </div> <div id="slide-6"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/6.png"> </div> <div id="slide-7"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/7.png"> </div> <div id="slide-8"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/8.png"> </div> <div id="slide-9"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/9.png"> </div> <div id="slide-10"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/10.png"> </div> <div id="slide-11"> <img src="Images/StorytellingTopics/11.png"> </div> </div> <a href="#slide-1">1</a><a href="#slide-2">2</a><a href="#slide-3">3</a><a href="#slide-4">4</a><a href="#slide-5">5</a><a href="#slide-6">6</a><a href="#slide-7">7</a><a href="#slide-8">8</a><a href="#slide-9">9</a><a href="#slide-10">10</a><a href="#slide-11">11</a> </div> </body> <style> * { box-sizing: border-box; } .slider { width: 30rem; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; } .slides { display: flex; overflow-x: auto; scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; scroll-behavior: smooth; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; /* scroll-snap-points-x: repeat(300px); scroll-snap-type: mandatory; */ } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 10px; height: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: black; border-radius: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: transparent; } .slides > div { scroll-snap-align: start; flex-shrink: 0; width: 30rem; height: 30rem; margin-right: 50px; border-radius: 10px; background: #eee; transform-origin: center center; transform: scale(1); transition: transform 0.5s; position: relative; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; font-size: 100px; } .slides > div:target { /* transform: scale(0.8); */ } .author-info { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); color: white; padding: 0.75rem; text-align: center; position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; margin: 0; } .author-info a { color: white; } img { object-fit: cover; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } .slider > a { display: inline-flex; width: 3rem; height: 3rem; background: white; text-decoration: none; align-items: center; justify-content: center; border-radius: 50%; margin: 0 0 0.5rem 0; position: relative; } .slider > a:active { top: 1px; } .slider > a:focus { background: #000; } /* Don't need button navigation */ @supports (scroll-snap-type) { .slider > a { display: none; } } html, body { height: 100%; overflow: scroll; } body { display: flex; align-items: top; justify-content: center; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #74ABE2, #5563DE); font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif; } </style> <script> // fetch('https://api.unsplash.com/photos/random/?count=5&client_id=52d8369eb3e2576a5f5b6423865e074e9c7045761bff1ac5664ff3e0bdb57a1d') // .then(response => response.json()) // .then(data => { // data.forEaach(function(image, i) { // document.querySelector("#slide-" + (i+1)).innerHTML = ` // <img src="${image.urls.regular}" alt=""> // <p class="author-info"> // <a href="${image.links.html}?utm_source=slider-thing&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit">Photo by ${image.user.name}</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> // </p> // `; // }); // }); </script>]

[This theme encompasses discussion of physical abuse or sexual abuse, child neglect, trauma, and healing.] [Each slide depicts a wordcloud of the top 15 words from a topic discussing a harmful aspect of fundamentalism. The larger the word, the greater its relevance to this topic. Each slide is captioned with the month in which this topic was discussed and a brief contextual description. ''Please be aware that some of these topics and the following overview discuss physical and sexual abuse of women and children, child neglect, and trauma responses. Graphic details are omitted, but this content may still be triggering to survivors of abuse.''] [If you need them, here are some resources for survivors: * <a href="https://hotline.rainn.org/online" target="_blank">National Sexual Assault Online Hotline</a> * <a href="https://www.thehotline.org/" target="_blank">National Domestic Violence Hotline<a> * <a href="https://1in6.org/" target="_blank">1 in 6, a resource for men who are survivors</a> * <a href="https://www.childwelfare.gov/organizations/?CWIGFunctionsaction=rols:main.dspList&rolType=Custom&RS_ID=67" target="_blank">Organizations for Adult Survivors of Abuse</a>] --- ||||= [Discussions of abuse, neglect, and trauma run throughout r/FundieSnarkUncensored's first year and can be characterized by concern for women made vulnerable by early marriage and pregnancy, concern and anger about suspected child neglect or abusive parenting techniques, and shock, anger, and grief over a high-profile sex crimes case involving a prominent fundamentalist. In the latter months of the year, topics within this theme pivot towards education and healing as snarkers discuss the kinds of support victims/survivors of fundamentalist abuse will need to move forward with their lives. When discussing abuse or trauma involving adults, snarkers frequently employ [[storytelling->Storytelling]] as a method to aid their analyses of [[gender and bodily autonomy->Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy]] and express empathy towards the victims/survivors. Situations involving children are more frequently characterized by anger, as snarkers express anger at parents for abusing or failing to protect their children and question why the state has not intervened through Child Protective Services. Calls for CPS to investigate particular fundamentalist families occur as topics in most months. Towards the end of the year, topics in this theme begin to turn towards the [[family dynamics->Power, Gender, and Relationships]] that enable abuse to continue, indicating that, similar to other themes, snark conversations about abuse, neglect, and trauma are expanding into a more reflexive tone, rather than an us-vs-them dynamic.] [[Back->Ethics]] =||| [<body> <div class="slider"> <div class="slides"> <div id="slide-1"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/1.png"> </div> <div id="slide-2"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/2.png"> </div> <div id="slide-3"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/3.png"> </div> <div id="slide-4"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/4.png"> </div> <div id="slide-5"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/5.png"> </div> <div id="slide-6"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/6.png"> </div> <div id="slide-7"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/7.png"> </div> <div id="slide-8"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/8.png"> </div> <div id="slide-9"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/9.png"> </div> <div id="slide-10"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/10.png"> </div> <div id="slide-11"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/11.png"> </div> <div id="slide-12"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/12.png"> </div> <div id="slide-13"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/13.png"> </div> <div id="slide-14"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/14.png"> </div> <div id="slide-15"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/15.png"> </div> <div id="slide-16"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/16.png"> </div> <div id="slide-17"> <img src="Images/AbuseTopics/17.png"> </div> </div> </body> <a href="#slide-1">1</a><a href="#slide-2">2</a><a href="#slide-3">3</a><a href="#slide-4">4</a><a href="#slide-5">5</a><a href="#slide-6">6</a><a href="#slide-7">7</a><a href="#slide-8">8</a><a href="#slide-9">9</a><a href="#slide-10">10</a><a href="#slide-11">11</a><a href="#slide-12">12</a><a href="#slide-13">13</a><a href="#slide-14">14</a><a href="#slide-15">15</a><a href="#slide-16">16</a><a href="#slide-17">17</a> </div> <style> * { box-sizing: border-box; } .slider { width: 30rem; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; } .slides { display: flex; overflow-x: auto; scroll-snap-type: x mandatory; scroll-behavior: smooth; -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; /* scroll-snap-points-x: repeat(300px); scroll-snap-type: mandatory; */ } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 10px; height: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb { background: black; border-radius: 10px; } .slides::-webkit-scrollbar-track { background: transparent; } .slides > div { scroll-snap-align: start; flex-shrink: 0; width: 30rem; height: 30rem; margin-right: 50px; border-radius: 10px; background: #eee; transform-origin: center center; transform: scale(1); transition: transform 0.5s; position: relative; display: flex; justify-content: center; align-items: center; font-size: 100px; } .slides > div:target { /* transform: scale(0.8); */ } .author-info { background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.75); color: white; padding: 0.75rem; text-align: center; position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; margin: 0; } .author-info a { color: white; } img { object-fit: cover; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } .slider > a { display: inline-flex; width: 3rem; height: 3rem; background: white; text-decoration: none; align-items: center; justify-content: center; border-radius: 50%; margin: 0 0 0.5rem 0; position: relative; } .slider > a:active { top: 1px; } .slider > a:focus { background: #000; } /* Don't need button navigation */ @supports (scroll-snap-type) { .slider > a { display: none; } } html, body { height: 100%; overflow: scroll; } body { display: flex; align-items: top; justify-content: center; background: linear-gradient(to bottom, #74ABE2, #5563DE); font-family: 'Arial', sans-serif; } </style> <script> // fetch('https://api.unsplash.com/photos/random/?count=5&client_id=52d8369eb3e2576a5f5b6423865e074e9c7045761bff1ac5664ff3e0bdb57a1d') // .then(response => response.json()) // .then(data => { // data.forEaach(function(image, i) { // document.querySelector("#slide-" + (i+1)).innerHTML = ` // <img src="${image.urls.regular}" alt=""> // <p class="author-info"> // <a href="${image.links.html}?utm_source=slider-thing&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=api-credit">Photo by ${image.user.name}</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/">Unsplash</a> // </p> // `; // }); // }); </script>]

[The ceremony in the screenshot is for a Keepers at Home chapter, an organization similar to Girl Scouts that prepares girls to be "discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed" (Titus 2:5).] [In the comments, several people discuss "helpmeets," the effects of patriarchy on female education, and whether these girls will be allowed to go to college or start a [[career->Comments1]].]

["$firstReply"] (if:$relationality > 0)[Throughout this narrative, you primarily chose relational responses, or responses that extended empathy to fundamentalist posts and fellow snarkers.] (if:$relationality is 0)[Throughout this narrative, you chose a balance of responses, both emphathizing with and challenging fundamentalists and fellow snarkers.] (if:$relaitonality < 0)[Throughout this narrative, you chose primarily challenging responses, pushing back against fundamentalist posts.] #[Play it [[again->Beginning]]?]