Reading Time: 5 minutes “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” blows apart the Potemkin-village façade that the Duggar family presented to the world.
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The Duggars: Authoritarians Trying to Protect Their Tainted Brand
Reading Time: 7 minutes Last week, the Duggar clown car family hit the headlines again. Unsurprisingly, those headlines centered on the arrest of family scion Josh Duggar. Federal authorities charged him with possessing child pornography. Slowly, news has been trickling out about what his father, Jim Bob Duggar, knew and how he handled his eldest son’s impending arrest. I wasn’t at all surprised to hear about his reactions, either. His family struggles hard these days — not with substantively addressing Josh Duggar’s sickening perversion and degeneracy, no, but rather with protecting their family’s two increasingly tainted brands. Today, I’ll show you what the Duggar brand is and how the Duggar patriarch is desperately trying to protect it from that taint.
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Josh Duggar’s Having a Tough Time These Days.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Last year we covered the scandal erupting around the Duggar family when eldest son Josh turned out to be a child sex abuser. Things aren’t getting much better for the parents or their son–but in a way, these developments are kinda good news for the rest of us.
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Anna Duggar and the Impossible Decision: Why They Stay.
Reading Time: 9 minutes There are reasons why women in Anna Duggar’s position don’t leave husbands like Josh Duggar. Today I want to talk about some of those reasons.
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… And Now We Learn About Josh Duggar’s Secret Facebook Account.
Reading Time: 6 minutes I need to be really careful about what I say. Last time we talked, I was saying that I was just waiting for the other shoe to drop about Josh Duggar. I clearly used up my allotment of “I CAN’T EVEN” statements way too early on this whole thing.
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Do Not Piss Off Lesbians, And Other Surprising New Revelations About the Duggar Abuse Scandal.
Reading Time: 10 minutes It’s been a pretty weird week for the Duggars and their ongoing sex abuse scandal. Here are a few short tidbits that I thought y’all would find of interest, including what touched off journalists’ investigation into it.
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The Voice of False Submission and the Duggar Sisters’ Interview.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Michelle said in her breathy, wondering, affectation of a little-girl voice, “an…. agenda???” That voice caught my attention in a major way. I live under a rock. I don’t pay much attention to reality TV. I hadn’t noticed her voice until this interview. But once I noticed it, a lot of stuff fell into place for me.
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What Josh Duggar Shows Us About How Not to Apologize.
Reading Time: 10 minutes Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of Josh Duggar and his parents does not look anything like this list.
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3 more Christian defenses of Josh Duggar, and why they fail
Reading Time: 6 minutes Here’s a quick between-meals snack of three new defenses that are emerging around the Josh Duggar molestation scandal and why they fail completely.
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Josh Duggar and the Anatomy of a Not-Pology.
Reading Time: 11 minutes By now you’ve likely heard about the scandal rocking the right-wing conservative Christ-o-sphere: Josh Duggar, one of the older sons of the fundagelical reality-TV Duggar family, has confessed publicly to being a child molester. Worst of all, it seems clear that at least some of his victims were his own young sisters. The story gets more and more shocking with every single new detail that emerges about it. Just when I think it’s gotten as bad as it can get, I see something else. So tonight we’re going to talk about it.