Quoting Quiverfull: Pink Dyed Hair is the Devil?

Quoting Quiverfull: Pink Dyed Hair is the Devil? April 28, 2017

quotingquiverfullby Doug Wilson from Blog and Mablog – When You Paint the Barn

Editor’s note: When did pink dyed hair start to represent such a threat to Christianity? Doug is riding/screwing one of his favorite hobby horses in this piece by saying that any tattoos, hair dye, clothing or accessory that makes a woman stand out is a sin. Oh, but doesn’t everyone want to take fashion advice from a guy that looks like a cut-rate department store Santa on a bender? Sorry, that was mean, but whenever I see people that aren’t so attractive trying to police the choices of others it makes me so angry. He treats women like sinful children instead of fully functioning adults with a right to wear whatever makes them feel beautiful. All this makes me feel like rushing out to get that tattoo I keep threatening and to dye my hair the lovely shade of turquoise I had it in my old punk rock days.

The words of Doug Wilson

That said, it is much easier to identify when the person concerned is attempting to be unique, outlandish, or preposterous. When a woman is consumed with a desire to be the most beautiful one at the president’s reception, the worldliness is certainly there, but it is located down in the compartment of heart motives. But when a woman wears a dog collar, neon hair, and a tattoo that says β€œdemon spawn,” this is a declaration of desperate and overt loyalty to worldlinessβ€”a world that is about to devour her. This accounts for the wide disparity we see between the beautiful women in magazines with exotic hair colors (having the kind of beauty that would require a lot more than that to wreck), and the actual results that you see at the mall or grocery store.

Notice that no attempt is made even to try to make personal adornment a matter of personal obedience. The need for β€œcreativity and individuality” is not a mandate we can find in the New Testamentβ€”but we do find mandates on personal adornment. Right? How does the exhortation to do your own thing, paint your own colors, be your own me, make your own individual statement do anything but demonstrate that the exhortations are exegetically derived from a false set of scriptures?

Try to imagine a woman with a neon butch cut, asking her roommates this question: β€œBut does this say modesty and self-control? Because if it doesn’t line up with a gentle and quiet spirit, I am not having anything to do with it.” Heh.

Just in case you didn’t get enough complaining about pink hair dye here Doug has expounded again in length on this subject in Poodle Skirts as a Ruination. He is talking about if pastors should rebuke women wearing pink hair dye.

More ridiculousness of Doug Wilson

In the meantime, I do acknowledge the existence of the gap between exegesis and application. I believe that pastors and preachers have a responsibility to be measured, careful, and humble as they seek to connect the Word of the first century to the world of the twenty-first. But this is not to be measured by the responses of the people in the problem group in question. In other words, pastors are far more likely to be aware of the perils of β€œthe gap” than are the teenagers in their congregations who are busy enough being catechized by Netflix. Yes, I would say to the parishioners who are being admonished for their unreflective cultural choices. There is a challenge here, but your pastor is likely far more aware of the nature of the challenge than you are.

One last thing. It is not the case that pastors need to leave such issues for the women to deal with. It might seem like prudence to leave it all untouched or, if touched, to make the word gingerly seem ham-handed. But one of the great problems underneath all of this is the large-scale abandonment of pastoral care for women. There is a long tradition within evangelicalism that equates the feminine touch with the Holy Spirit, and that tradition has been turned into the service of egalitarianism and the rule of feminine sensibilities. It begins with a great deal of flattery, but it ends in frustration and despair. It continues because pastors are too cowardly to say what needs to be said.

Why is this such a problem?

Hard to believe this raving Christian Patriarch Movement guy is calling for any restraint in how you approach congregants considering he’s usually busy telling sexual assault victims to immediately forgive their rapists, and marrying off teenagers to guys who are convicted pedophiles.

Also hard to believe that the church is wasting time with this issue. It’s kind of like straining for gnats when there is a big old hairy dirty camel that has fallen in your well. The church faces so many different important issues and challenges but most of the Evangelical Quiverfull world is more worried that you might get a tattoo, or dye your hair pink instead of being worried about feeding the hungry and doing the other things Jesus commanded his believers to do. I’ve always been very puzzled by the focus on sex and appearance in Quiverfull. It’s distracting and disgraceful, though it does fit with the judgmentalism of many of the female cultural enforcers.

So my question for today is just this: Does our choices in the small things like makeup, hair dye, clothing, jewelry or tattoos have anything to do with our spiritual lives? Is this the business of church leadership to call out believers who do not conform to what pastors and elders think a Christian woman should look like? Or is this just another case of guys completely missing the point of the words of Jesus and misapplying scriptures?

QUOTING QUIVERFULL is a regular feature of NLQ – we present the actual words of noted Quiverfull leaders, cultural enforcers and those that seek to keep women submitted to men and ask our readers: What do you think? Agree? Disagree? This is the place to state your opinion. Please, let’s keep it respectful – but at the same time, we encourage readers to examine the ideas of Quiverfull and Spiritual Abuse honestly and thoughtfully.

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