Bethany Mannon
@drbethany.bsky.social
Rhetoric & Writing professor in Appalachia, studying feminism & religion | AI eye-roller | academic who gets peer reviews done on time
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
UConn | Penn State | Newtown, CT | now in East TN
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"I Grew Up in the Church" - Baylor University Press
In 'I Grew Up in the Church': How American Evangelical Women Tell Their Stories, Bethany Mannon studies the diverse and complex voices of women who have inf...
www.baylorpress.com
I have some thoughts about women - of all ages - leaving evangelicalism. 🧵
First of all, of course they are! I wrote about how women have spent the last two decades (and really longer) calling out alienating, unbiblical evangelical rhetoric and politics. 1/x www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...
First of all, of course they are! I wrote about how women have spent the last two decades (and really longer) calling out alienating, unbiblical evangelical rhetoric and politics. 1/x www.baylorpress.com/978148131893...
Spelling Bee, you need to educate yourself
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Spelling Bee, you need to educate yourself
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
Just once I want to hear Werner Herzog walk us through a float on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
November 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Just once I want to hear Werner Herzog walk us through a float on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Did you all know if you leave your asparagus it grows into littor trees with red berries? #gardening #permaculture 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Did you all know if you leave your asparagus it grows into littor trees with red berries? #gardening #permaculture 🌱
I'm supposed to bring a pie/cake to family Thanksgiving on Saturday. I'm a decent baker but I don't really have a go-to recipe for this -- please give me ideas for what will travel well, be fine at room temperature for a bit, and suit both kids and adults? 🍽️ #baking
November 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I'm supposed to bring a pie/cake to family Thanksgiving on Saturday. I'm a decent baker but I don't really have a go-to recipe for this -- please give me ideas for what will travel well, be fine at room temperature for a bit, and suit both kids and adults? 🍽️ #baking
The pope agrees with me
Pastor: “satan has no creative ability, he can only offer a lesser, counterfeit version of what god has created”
Me: “so what I’m hearing is GenAI is of the devil?”
Me: “so what I’m hearing is GenAI is of the devil?”
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The pope agrees with me
I’m getting my hair done in the cutest little salon where everything is “aesthetic“ and smells good and the stylist girlies are all like 23 and they decorated for Christmas. It’s entirely the opposite of academia and I love it so much
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I’m getting my hair done in the cutest little salon where everything is “aesthetic“ and smells good and the stylist girlies are all like 23 and they decorated for Christmas. It’s entirely the opposite of academia and I love it so much
Good apple pie is transcendent
Oh, you brave iconoclasts, coming out against pie. Who is as cool as you? Nobody.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Good apple pie is transcendent
The students in this classroom are coughing and sniffling non-stop (even though one has a box of tissues ON HER DESK) and I am about to lose my mind
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The students in this classroom are coughing and sniffling non-stop (even though one has a box of tissues ON HER DESK) and I am about to lose my mind
first 3 words will define your 2026
Job
Crabs
Boobs
huh
Job
Crabs
Boobs
huh
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
first 3 words will define your 2026
Job
Crabs
Boobs
huh
Job
Crabs
Boobs
huh
Old school dinner tonight: pork loin cooked in apple butter, broccoli casserole. And cranberry sauce from a can 😁
November 24, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Old school dinner tonight: pork loin cooked in apple butter, broccoli casserole. And cranberry sauce from a can 😁
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
Not quite a Betteridge, but the answer to "Why is Robert F. Kennedy convinced he's right?" is that idiots are usually convinced they're right, and you just encourage them by sitting them down for hours of interviews and making him your magazine cover story
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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Why is Robert F. Kennedy Jr. so convinced he’s right?
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November 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Not quite a Betteridge, but the answer to "Why is Robert F. Kennedy convinced he's right?" is that idiots are usually convinced they're right, and you just encourage them by sitting them down for hours of interviews and making him your magazine cover story
Derek is preaching this afternoon!
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Derek is preaching this afternoon!
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
most of the BBB damage was backloaded after the midterms so republicans could try and pass off the blame for their cuts, but as we warned would happen, hospitals are already starting to cut services
November 23, 2025 at 4:14 PM
most of the BBB damage was backloaded after the midterms so republicans could try and pass off the blame for their cuts, but as we warned would happen, hospitals are already starting to cut services
Sometimes I feel the fear of
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Someone to hold you too close
Someone to hurt you too deep
Someone to hurt you too deep
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Sometimes I feel the fear of
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Uncertainty stinging clear
And I, I can't help but ask myself
How much I let the fear take the wheel and steer
Whereas this is the female gaze
November 23, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Whereas this is the female gaze
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
Today at an event a friend perfectly and succinctly described ICE agents as "emotionally dysregulated man children living out their Call of Duty fantasies"
November 22, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Today at an event a friend perfectly and succinctly described ICE agents as "emotionally dysregulated man children living out their Call of Duty fantasies"
Have Olivia Nuzzi and Larry Summers met? They seem made for each other.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Have Olivia Nuzzi and Larry Summers met? They seem made for each other.
Email from a student: "I'm sorry I have to miss class today and Monday, I'm leaving early for Thanksgiving" 🤦♀️
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Email from a student: "I'm sorry I have to miss class today and Monday, I'm leaving early for Thanksgiving" 🤦♀️
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
I feel like the best response is no response at all
#academicsky
Why do we keep hearing from the same half-dozen crusty old democrats when there are other bright and serious people like her?
Rep. Goodlander: "When the Sec Def came before the House Armed Services Committee, I asked him a simple question that has one answer only. I asked him, 'Will you abide by a decision of SCOTUS?' Sec. Hegseth refused to commit to doing so. This put our service members in an impossible position."
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Why do we keep hearing from the same half-dozen crusty old democrats when there are other bright and serious people like her?
Reposted by Bethany Mannon
NOV 19
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
Reports of ICE activity in Boone spur protest – The Appalachian
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrived in North Carolina last weekend. Since then, the Department of Homeland Security has launched Operation Charlotte’s Web, applying tactics used in Los ...
theappalachianonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
NOV 19
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
approx ❶❸❺ #AppState #students & #Boone NC demonstrators @ Blowing Rock Road where #ICE ❶st sighted. #Nazis just following orders too & Time to melt the ICE
theappalachianonline.com/reports-of-i...
#NoKings #TrumpMustGo #RATR #Resist
#32
My book (which the awards committee called "fresh"!) is very cheap on Amazon right now
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
My book (which the awards committee called "fresh"!) is very cheap on Amazon right now
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
www.amazon.com/Grew-Up-Chur...
My maga relatives, still: “trump just says that to drive the media (who hate him) crazy. He doesn’t mean most of the stuff he tweets (except when it’s something I agree with)”
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
My maga relatives, still: “trump just says that to drive the media (who hate him) crazy. He doesn’t mean most of the stuff he tweets (except when it’s something I agree with)”
Patriarchy gives women points for being young and hot, but also for making a ghastly effort to simulate young and hot. Like, “bless her heart, she‘s not actually attractive but at least she’s punishing herself for not being good enough”
As of January, plastic surgeons in Washington DC have seen a “surge in ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ requests from Trump insiders”...Surgeons told the outlet that more Washingtonians want their procedures to be not unnoticed but obvious and overdone." www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Plastic surgeons wrestle with requests for ‘Mar-a-Lago face’: ‘You’re going to look like Maleficent’
The puffy, artificial look is rising in popularity - thanks to Maga elite such as Kristi Noem and Matt Gaetz
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Patriarchy gives women points for being young and hot, but also for making a ghastly effort to simulate young and hot. Like, “bless her heart, she‘s not actually attractive but at least she’s punishing herself for not being good enough”