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JK Gayle argued the following earlier in a post:
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- He is not a wo-man and is not a fe-male.
- His name is fake.
- He has invented his name as a counter-part of the name of another man, one N.T. Wright, a Bishop, and therefore, a man.
- His name is to-be a pun: one may be (W)right but the other is unambiguously Wrong.
- He is not telling us who he is.
- He hides who he is to the frustration of some other pretty big Top-notch-Bible-blogger men, like the man Mr. Dr. John F. Hobbins (who claimed to know him as Mr. Stephen So-And-So while admitting how, nonetheless, he “think[s] there may be two or three NT Wrongs out there”) and like the man Mr. Dr. James F. McGrath.
Today, I would like to begin a new search for the identity of the real NT Wrong. Obviously, at first, NT Wrong sounds like a male name. It sounds like a conservative evangelical who has a vendetta against NT Wright (since everything he says is wrong). But at the same time, NT Wrong’s posts in the past were not so conservative, even more progressive even.
Why JK Gayle and I were gearing our angry male rage at sexism, NT Wrong commented,
“The Biblioblog Top 50 not only backs Rod of Alexandria in this endeavor, but will provide a personal reply – woman to woman – from legendary blogger of old, N.T. Wrong, to any woman who signs up in the current month.”
NT Wrong is a woman, and a scholar to boot. It makes sense. NT Wright used to read at the end of Romans, June instead of Junia, but now his mind has changed, on both Junia and women’s ordination through the rigorous study of scripture.
NT Wrong, she is alright and will receive a response from me concerning the big elephant(s) in the room: Ordination and Scholarship.
Her comment from the aforementioned post:
“Women in higher education in the “West” stands at just below 30% on the latest figures I could find. Women in biblical studies and theology stands closer to 10%. There is something deeper going on. I suggest it has to do with the structure of the field, which is still centred on teaching men to become ministers and priests (and the majority of Christendom only accepts men as priests). Christianity has historically (not essentially, or necessarily) and today been dominated by forms which secure patriarchy. This, I believe is the deeper problem that is being avoided by focus on ‘getting more women to blog on biblical studies’. There may be other equally important factors which should be discussed. So let’s.”
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- A CALL FOR WOMEN BLOGGERS: The Bibliobloggers (simuliustusetpeccator.com)
Given the discussion I just had with an old friend, I might as well be called NT Wrong :-/ (especially since we were talking about women’s roles in the church – she arguing not as teachers and leaders and I arguing yes as teachers and leaders). Frustrating…
I have a more elaborate theory pertaining to the identity/ies of NT Wrong, but I am keeping my mouth shut.
The writer of the book of Hebrews; N.E. Bode; J.K. Rowling; Ellis, Acton, and Currer Bell; James Tiptree; J.D. Robb; George Eliot; Andy Stack; A.M. Barnardl George Sand; Isak Dinesen; Ernst Ahlgren; D.C. Fontana; K.A. Applegate; S.E. Hinton….
Godde Herself
And now N.T. Wright? She uses woman-disparaging logic so well.
You’re so making eyes roll. LOL.
NT Wright? Woman disparaging logic? Maybe in the past.
JK, could you read the comments section again on BBTop50 posts and see again. NT Wrong is about fighting sexism on an institutional level, and has invited me, as well as others to be part of a discussion about the paltry numbers of women scholars in biblical studies.
In “secular academia” women comprise of 30%, and in biblical studies, 10%. There is something more sinister going on.
“{That’s Ok, Rod. As much as I completely back you own call, I’ve seen many of them before, and as I’ve explained, I think they don’t deal with the big elephant in the room.
Women in higher education in the “West” stands at just below 30% on the latest figures I could find. Women in biblical studies and theology stands closer to 10%. There is something deeper going on. I suggest it has to do with the structure of the field, which is still centred on teaching men to become ministers and priests (and the majority of Christendom only accepts men as priests). Christianity has historically (not essentially, or necessarily) and today been dominated by forms which secure patriarchy. This, I believe is the deeper problem that is being avoided by focus on ‘getting more women to blog on biblical studies’. There may be other equally important factors which should be discussed. So let’s.”
http://biblioblogtop50.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/the-biblioblog-top-50-now-accepting-women/#comment-2173
Every so often, the male mask of N. T. Wrong is male logic:
“Logic is truth. How can you speak against truth, J.K.? (…irrefutable logic in action…) To do so is to indulge in fallacy (sounds like ‘ph*llusy’).” [1]
“What’s left is how to translate this passage [Hos 2.11-12], in order to retain the original c*nt-pun. I suggest this: ‘I will sn*tch away my wool and my flax which were to cover her p*denda, and today I will expose her p*ssyfooting in the eyes of her lovers.’” [2]
“With taxonomic fervour, I have also classified the [biblio]blogs in two ways….” [3]
“[Jim West: Do you have any secret hobbies or interests that our readers might find surprising?
N.T. Wrong:] F*sting.” [4]
“Merry P*rineum, Roland!” [5]
“Mutual m*sturbation in biblical studies” [6]
“Yes, the idea of turning academic biblical studies blogging into a top 50, like some sort of popularity contest or pop-music contest, is absurd. It’s my little joke on the whole biblioblogging caper, you see.” [7]
Sources:
[1] a Wrong comment at my post “What πίστεως means to a 10-Yr-Old Girl” (at the blog Aristotle’s Feminist Subject)
[2] another Wrong statement at N.T.’s own blog, in the post “C*nny Punning in Hosea 2″
[3] an entire post using Wrong logic to make the N.T. bible blogging “List of Bibliobloggers – Conservative or Liberal?”
[4] the deleted blog of Jim West, who was interviewing Wrong (an excerpt of which is found in James Crossley’s essay “N.T. WRONG AND THE BIBLIOBLOGGERS”)
[5] a Wrong salutation to Roland Boer, at his post “A world upside-down, or, ‘anarchy in the UK’,” at his blog Stalin’s Moustache
[6] a Wrong description of Roland Boer’s previously mentioned post, which N.T. classified and labeled as “Hot reading” at “the very hottest of hot biblioblogs” which was also noted as among the “very sexiest in biblical studies blogging” — all an N.T. Wrong play on logical objectivity, which got some men hooting it up while some women, also playing along, protested.
[7] a Wrong attempt to sound like a feminist, or at least a sophist, to Kristen, who expresses concern about the Top 50 Biblioblogs serving as a competitive gentleman’s club. (You know, historian Bettany Hughes says that the sophist Gorgias himself attempt this sort of thing, while all the men laughed: “When, in Ancient Greece, the rhetorician Gorgias stood up and delivered his ‘Encomium of Helen’ (a defence of Helen of Troy’s indefensible character) – this was a great joke. How can you laud the most sluttish femme fatale of all time? But the rhetoric also got people thinking – maybe, just maybe the skilled speaker had a point.”)
*Rod, Let me know if you need the vowels supplied here. I’m trying to spare your readers the blatant N. T. Wrong misogyny. If this person is a woman, then she sometimes writes like a very cowardly sort of Christie Hefner. At least Christie Hefner didn’t pretend to take down the patriarchy when taking over her father’s powerful female-objectivizing woman-denigrating porn business. Or has Wrong, by the recent statements to you and by declaration number 7 above, turned N.T. into a feminist?
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