Let's get personal! On this episode, Jake takes Brooke and Jordan through his experience becoming an Evangelical in order to understand how anyone could get sucked into Dobson's obvious lies. We talk about everything from AWANA to Adventures in Odyssey, from bell choirs to Christian rock bands, from racist chipmunks to youth group lock-ins.

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Happy pride month, heathens! Today, Jake and Brooke are joined by our first very special guest: Jordan! Together, we are taking a step back to marvel at Dobson's illustrious career as a professional homophobe. We trace Dobson's denial of homophobia, his active homophobia, and the hydra of political organizations he has created. Turns out, sometimes conspiracy theories are true: Dobson literally conspired in secret with others to push homophobic and misogynistic policies at every possible level of government.

Works Cited (hyperlinks do not work on every podcast player, my apologies)

“A Nation Shaken by the Sandy Hook Tragedy” broadcast by Dobson – Dec 17, 2012

After Obergefell

“Ballot measures in 11 states, all successful, aided the president’s reelection bid and helped to swing the momentum, for a time, to the side of the anti-gay Right.” - https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/revolution-anti-gay-activists-threaten-uprising-if-supreme-court-approves-marriage-equality/

Dr. Dobson's September Newsletter – Sept. 2019

Evangelical Broadcaster Seeks “Pro-Family” Lobby by Russell Chandler

Family Policy Alliance Financial Reports 2020 & 2019

Focus on the Family focuses on homosexuals

FRC fighting conversion therapy bans

FRC’s connection to FPCs

Gallagher, S. “Where Are the Antifeminist Evangelicals? Evangelical Identity, Subcultural Location, and Attitudes toward Feminism.” Gender and Society (2004)

“God will destroy America for legalizing sexual perversions”

Homosexuality and Dr. Dobson: What’s at Stake in American Christianity?

Moslener, Sara, Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence (2015)

SPLC on FRC

The Homosexual Community: Small number, big influence

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Here's where things get interesting. In this episode, Jake and Brooke explore Bringing Up Boys from a cultural perspective, then do a deep dive into one of the most harmful chapters James Dobson has written - and that's saying something. There's stuff in this episode that will shock you, I promise. (Is it in bad taste to make a conversion therapy joke? No I'm gay, I can get away with it.)

References

Umberto Eco, "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt," The New York Review of Books, June 22, 1995.

Kruglanski, A. W., Szumowska, E., & Kopetz, C. (2021). The Psychology of Extremism. In The Psychology of Extremism (pp. 1-11). Routledge.

Stone, Peter. “US ‘university’ Spreads Climate Lies and Receives Millions from Rightwing Donors.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 6 Sept. 2023, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/06/prageru-climate-change-denier-republican-donors.

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Buckle up boys and girls (and NO ONE ELSE!), things get unhinged this time around. Jake and Brooke talk all about Dobson's commercially-successful trash fire called Bringing Up Boys. There's cringe, there's trauma, there's holy bones - this episode has it all.

Sources:

"Animal Sex: How Anglerfish Do It" (2015) from LiveScience.com

Studies about how human sexual dimorphism is vastly over-blown:

• Lise Eliot, Adnan Ahmed, Hiba Khan, Julie Patel. Dump the 'dimorphism': Comprehensive synthesis of human brain studies reveals few male-female differences beyond size. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2021; 125: 667 DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2021.02.026
• Marwha, D., Halari, M., & Eliot, L. (2017). Meta-analysis reveals a lack of sexual dimorphism in human amygdala volume. Neuroimage, 147, 282-294.
• “Bill Nye Saves the World: The Sexual Spectrum.” Season 1, episode 9. (2017).

"One Day of ‘Take a Child to Work’ Is Short on Substance : Boys are now being invited to join the formerly all-girl event. But it’s doubtful kids find our jobs worth imitating. It may be better to just share the pride of accomplishment." Los Angeles Times (1995)

Johnson, L.B. (1991). On the front lines: Police stress and family wellbeing. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families House of Representatives: 102 Congress First Session May 20 (p. 3248). Washington DC: US Government Printing Office.

Neidig, P.H., Russell, H.E. & Seng, A.F. (1992). Interspousal aggression in law enforcement families: A preliminary investigation. Police Studies, Vol. 15 (1), p. 3038.

Leopold, T. (2018). Gender differences in the consequences of divorce: A study of multiple outcomes. Demography, 55(3), 769-797.

"The Coming Attack on an Essential Element of Women's Freedom" (2023). by Kimberly Wehle, The Atlantic

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This is the full conversation between Brooke and Jake of "What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women" - a title I hope to never say or write again. This episode is for the podcast aficionados who want 90 minutes of uninterrupted Dobson talk. So if you're a masochist, enjoy! New episodes resume next week :)

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We back to finish out Dobson's confusing and upsetting book What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women. In episode 1 we covered women's top 4 problems (according to Dobson): low self-esteem; fatigue; loneliness, isolation, and boredom; and lack of romantic love in marriage. Today, we are covering the rest of them and trying to understand why Dobson thinks it's a great idea to trick a teenage girl into doing free manual labor for you. Gosh what a freak.

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I'm just as frustrated with this title as you are, I promise.

In this episode, Jake and Brooke talk about Dobson's feminist manifesto, What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women. I'm sure we are all so glad to have Dobson mansplain women's problems to us, I'm sure he's super insightful about it.

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In this episode, Jake and Brooke dive into Dobson's first book, Dare to Discipline, aka the reason you were spanked as a kid. And oh boy, Dobson comes out swinging in this one.

Content warning for: child abuse, violence, and overly long explanations of operant conditioning.

References and further reading:

• APA Resolution on Physical Discipline of Children By Parents (2019)
• "Physical discipline is harmful and ineffective" by Eve Glicksman for the APA's Monitor on Psychology, explaining the Resolution of Physical Discipline (2019)
• "The case against spanking" by Brendan L. Smith for the APA's Monitor on Psychology (2012)
• "The Research on Spanking and Its Implications for Intervention" by Elizabeth Gershoff, Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin
• "Fractioning Human Intelligence" by Adam Hampshire et al. (2012) in Neuron, complicating the oversimplistic understanding of intelligence as a singular variable (IQ)
• "The Bell Curve" by Shaun on Youtube (2020), analyzing how IQ has been, and continues to be, used by people to perpetuate white supremacy
• Engle v. Vitale explainer, and why it doesn't ban prayer in public schools the way Dobson claims it does.

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