#duggars

it's been four years since I updated last but holy fucking shit KENDRA GIRL WHAT THE HELL

I feel sick to my stomach. Joseph Duggar has been arrested and extradited to Florida on charges of child molestation. He has been accused of molesting a nine-year girl in 2020 while on vacation there. The girl was not a relative or family friend. The Duggar family (i.e. Jim Bob and Michelle) has not made a statement about the arrest. How many predators did Jim Bob and Michelle raise? First Josh, now Joseph.

I just wish that people realize that none of the Duggar kids are our friends. While they do deserve our compassion for the abuse they've been through (esp the daughters), and to be able to unlearn all that harmful Fundie Christian rhetoric that they have internalized in private, they are still bigots and absolutely do not deserve public platforms and continued speaking opportunities. For example, Jill and her husband Derrick have yet to address or apologise for his transphobic and homophobic tweets aimed towards trans public figure Jazz Jennings and gay couple Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent, and in her latest book Counting the Cost, Jill dismissed the controversies as her husband simply "speaking his mind on various and making a few enemies".

“It turns out that living with fearful thoughts is a lot like living with hornets and garter snakes. Once they find a way in, you can block as many holes as you like, but the struggle to keep them out will require constant vigilance. And when they do get in—which they will—the memory of all those previous attacks will make whatever you’re facing so much worse.”