Melinda Tankard-Reist shouts a lot.
She shouts about porn and the exploitation of women, she presents herself as a feminist and campaigns against the sexualisation of our girls.
Playboy bunnies on eight year old girls knickers make me a bit shouty as well and I think we should all be making a lot more noise about the sexualisation of our little girls.
BUT
What Melinda Tankard Reist would prefer that we didn’t know about her is that she is a fundamentalist Christian.
A god botherer of the first order who attends a Baptist church.
I didn’t know this, because to be honest even though I follow Melinda Tankard Reist on twitter I find her hysterical screechings to be a bit exhausting and I only notice her occasionally.
Once I was made aware of Melinda Tankard Reist’s religious leanings a lot of her opinions were immediately put into context.
A context that Melinda Tankard Reist doesn’t seem to like me having.
And it also seems that Melinda Tankard Reist would prefer that her religious preferences aren’t talked about.
Melinda Tankard Reist says,
“She tries to follow Jesus, but she doesn’t want anybody focusing on her religion because that will distract from her work.”
I tend to disagree.
I think it is of critical importance that we have a context within which to frame our responses to Melinda Tankard Reist’s anti porn and anti abortion campaigns.
I think that Melinda Tankard Reist’s religion is very, very important to how I perceive her and her work. It doesn’t distract me from her work at all, it gives me the previously mentioned context.
Dr Jennifer Wilson has been persistent in her public questioning of Melinda Tankard Reist and Dr Wilson writes that she is now being sued by Tankard Reist for declaring on her blog, “No Place for Sheep” that Tankard Reist is a Baptist and attends a Baptist church.
MTR threatens Sheep with legal action if we don’t censor our posts about her immediately
In the conversation that ensued on twitter between No place for Sheep, Weezmgk and myself, I offered my public support to Dr Wilson
This conversation in turn inspired Machine Gun Keyboard to write this post in support of Dr Wilson
Melinda Tankard-Reist is not the internet nor sex police
So here I stand on my soapbox on my blog declaring loudly that I am Spartacus, because it is incredibly, incredibly important that WE DO NOT LET THE SHOUTERS WIN.
We the public should always, always question the motivations of high profile public campaigners,politicians or anyone else that purports to speak in our name.
I AM SPARTACUS!
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