@JoshDaws @conservmillen Does anyone take Cooper seriously, though? Maybe entertaining but not seriously.
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Christina Crenshaw, PhD
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Christina Crenshaw, PhD
@CrenshawPhD
Professor, Researcher, Author. Posting on Christ, calling, and culture. Proud Wife & Boy Mom.
Texas Katılım Ekim 2014
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It’s baffling that so many Christians nitpick @conservmillen to death when she's offering excellent counter-programming to this garbage.
keeno ✧@ayekeeno
Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper advises women to stop worrying about giving the wrong impression on first dates and to F*CK their date to avoid wasting time 💀🤔 “a man won’t just ghost you because you f*cked him on the first date, a man already knows”
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Ella calls herself a socialist.
The complete hypocrisy of the left could not be better illustrated in one tweet. It’s quite literally a perfect summation of what utter frauds they are.
Yikes.
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@AndrewTWalker Watched with my own breath held! And then cried a tear of joy, too. Life is such a miracle. So thankful for those who recognize that.
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I don’t see how someone can watch this and not tear up at the combination of the glories of newborn life and the valor of heroism on display. Such beauty!
N𝕖𝕙𝕕𝕦𝕞@onlyCFrancisco
Baby back to life, no panic no rush, a professional who is aware of his duties. Remarkable
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Your faith matters for every facet of life.
If you’re in the market for a faith community— given that the research evidences greater happiness and flourishing than for those without— might I suggest the one with the most measurable and sustainable fruit for the last 2,000 years?
Camus@newstart_2024
Religious kids used to be noticeably happier than secular ones. After 2012, that gap exploded. Jonathan Haidt dropped this on The Daily Show: Religious children have built-in community, rituals, and traditions that anchor them. Secular kids, especially those handed phones and iPads early, are left floating without real roots. Haidt (who’s an atheist) says non-religious parents now have to work much harder to intentionally create stable social connections, because a network of strangers, bots, and algorithms is not a community — it’s crazy-making. In the smartphone era, the protective effect of community and ritual has weakened dramatically for everyone, but especially for kids growing up without traditional anchors. We traded thick, real-world belonging for thin digital freedom — and we’re watching a generation pay the price in anxiety and meaninglessness. Do you think religious community still gives kids a real advantage in 2025, or can intentional secular parents create equally strong roots without it? What’s worked (or failed) in your experience?
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@clareanneath Day care and public school should be a last, not a first choice.
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What opinion do you have about parenting young children that would have you like this?
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Bro. (Big sigh…) The larger conversation here is about the expectations culture puts on women, telling them to place motherhood on hold for a career. I shared my story and dispelled the lie:
Motherhood > than a career.
And a woman can still flourish professionally, off the traditional “male” path.
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@CrenshawPhD I see, "bot" is someone you disageree with, ok.
You went on to do greater things and not just became a full time mom. So he was wrong... because you did not end up doing what you've told him you intended to do and that proves something, apparently
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True story: When I was in my PhD program in my late 20s/ early 30s, a male professor chastised me for admitting (when he asked) that I didn’t want a tenure track faculty position when I graduated, that I’d rather teach part time and be a full time mom instead.
He said, and I quote, “if you were in my department, I’d call together a committee to question whether you deserve to be in this program.”
At the time, I was in the throes of a 4 year infertility struggle and miscarriages. His words gutted me, to say the least.
So yes, I can attest, the messaging young, ambitious women receive is this: place your career above your family.
But 14 yrs, 2 great kids, and a healthy marriage later, I’m thankful I disregarded his rebuke.
Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT
I think a strong message to both sexes is that relationships are less important than education/career choices until you hit a level of success at which you're "ready" for marriage/kids - and the unready period takes up a lot of prime family-forming years. x.com/olgakhazan/sta…
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@oscuro9999 Is it possible, guys, that I’ve done even greater things with my life than simply hold a tenure track position? Y’all do know most academics don’t earn six figures, right? Like why is no one pointing out how smart I was for realizing the ROI scam early on? 🤷🏻♀️
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@CrenshawPhD Maybe the professor accepted your choice to be a full-time mom, and his point was simply that you shouldn't also take up a slot in the PhD program.
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@darknessatnite @popcornjaq Big words from your mom’s basement, guys. 🤷🏻♀️
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@popcornjaq @CrenshawPhD “The whole this is fake” is a reasonable argument.
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@Thisiswhyidrin1 You’re a bot, so it’s probably not worth the reply. But for all the real people really wrestling through this, here is the ending that a simple Google search could resolve: SHE WENT ON TO DO EVEN GREATER THINGS (than merely holding a tenure track position).
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@CrenshawPhD What would you say to a person you were picked for this spot over?
If you were the one interviewing for a position would you pick someone already set on deprioritizing the work?
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@ItzikBasman @chasrmartin I wish I was that bold. I think I held it together but then cried in the bathroom just before class. I for sure did not tell anyone other than my husband and a couple of female classmates who were such an emotional support during an already trying time.
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@CrenshawPhD @chasrmartin If it were me, roughly similarly circumstanced though I’m male, I’d like to think I would’ve told this professor to fuck off. If you’re in the program, then you’re in it. Your reasons, motives, plans are your strictly your own business, how well you’re doing possibly his.
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@micaiah157 Willing to bet your friend is happier, by all measurements, than that professor. 🙃
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@CrenshawPhD I remember watching one of my professors shake her head with pity when she learned that a classmate of mine was engaged during our junior year. It was clear that the professor thought marrying young would get in the way of her career.
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Respectfully, I think I’ve given my university more ROI than most doctoral grads.
For numerous reasons, I’m thankful I’m married to a businessman. Not only has that provided the economic option to leave higher edu, it also gave me a more realistic perspective on ROI on my end. I’m not sure the work load is worth the investment for faculty, not financially anyway…
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@CrenshawPhD Offensive. But isn't it optimal to fund students who will later work full time?
Ofc he was rude. But don't we all maximise where we invest?
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Look at how my wife beams while holding a baby. She’s gonna be the best grandmother! November, here we come!!!
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@jt_english @ianharber Yes! I’ve thought this, too, about apologetics. Are we learning to defend our faith to more faithfully share the Gospel or to prove someone wrong? Similarly, theology is for the hungry and humble.
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Theology isn't for academics.
It's for the mom in the third row, the new believer asking hard questions, the dad raising his son, the elder who's been faithful for 40 years.
You are a theologian. The only question is whether you'll be a good one.
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@somewilderwords @AndrewKolvet @megbasham It’s pretty messy down here in Waco. Has been since last summer. 🫣
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@CrenshawPhD @AndrewKolvet @megbasham Ooo — just saw the flare up between TBGC and Baylor.
Not sure what’s gonna take for our friends down in Waco to recalibrate…
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Rather than supporting the Waco community and Baylor alumni, the university restricted entry for all non-students at our event tonight forcing us to tell 4,500 ticket holders not to come. Oh and the Southern Baptist school approved an LGBTQ counter-programming event after a bunch of progressive students complained.
What gives, @Baylor?
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Curious why more folks aren’t pointing out that perhaps “she’s into her career because she *can’t* have children.” For various reasons, maybe the fertility rate is lower amongst girl bosses because they struggle with infertility, and not just infertility because they are too old.
That was my story. I started trying at 27, which is relatively young. But experienced 4 yrs of infertility and had only 2 kids. So, I’m wondering for how many other women this is true, too.
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@alyssaleann That, and the curves are converging. Declining in all demographics, but declining fastest for women who aren't working, with the slowest decline for women working the most hours.
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Pretty sure the causality is flipped from what most commenters are assuming
It’s not: she’s into her career, so she’s not having babies
It’s: she never wanted to have a lot of babies, so she’s into her career*
We can and should make working motherhood less miserable. Probably some women would have more kids if we did. But it’s all optional now, and people have sorted themselves
The “fertility issue” is one of desire
*This obviously backfires sometimes and women realize too late that they’d have liked to have children (or more children); thats still an issue of desire
The Institute for Family Studies@FamStudies
Girlbosses really do have lower birthrates, @lymanstoneky shows in a new analysis. (2/3)👇
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@MatthewBoedy It’s interesting TPUSA chose Waco Hall, as it can fit only about 2k students. Not sure how they thought the community could come.
Waco Hall is the largest venue on campus, but not the largest in the city. They could have chosen one of the basketball stadiums, for example.
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First pictures out of TPUSA “private” event at Baylor. As usual TP oversold tickets and it’s full in lower level (we can’t see balcony) and they had no way to hold the 4,000 community members.
Vega Stamatien@vlynstam
Kicking off the Turning Point Tour at Baylor University! ❤️🔥🎤🇺🇸 A FULL HOUSE of Baylor students with voter status checks underway ⚡️🗳️ Waco understood the assignment👏🏽👏🏽 #SicEm #TheTurningPointTour #ChaptersChangeLives #TPUSA #GetInvolved
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@somewilderwords @AndrewKolvet @megbasham But they do still have strong ties to the Texas Baptist General Convention, at least they did until this week… 🫣
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@AndrewKolvet @megbasham Baylor is not a SBC school and has not been affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention for decades.
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Yes. Agreed. And I guess my question is more of causation than correlation. Maybe part of the story is that infertility *caused* these women to achieve? I’m wondering if there are any studies isolating the infertility variable?
For instance, I married at 23. Tried having kids at 27. But couldn’t until 31 and 33. And to your point, had I had babies at 27, I probably would not have pursued a PhD. (That or I would have needed full time child care!)
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@CrenshawPhD I think you’re on to something, because of the MANY factors beyond women’s control. A woman who marries young and gets pregnant quickly has a LOT less margin for advanced degrees or career building. But women who can’t find a spouse early aren’t just going to wait around. 😆
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Fact about American fertility almost nobody will say out loud:
The ONLY group of women with above-replacement fertility is women NOT in formal employment. To have 2+ kids, most women take a break from work. Currently no way around this.
New piece ⬇️ ifstudies.org/blog/low-girlb…
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