-By Warner Todd Huston
A faith-based relationship advisor met with resistance from teens in a Dallas, Texas high school after speaking there on Nov. 13. Some of the girls were upset that the speaker offered traditional advice about gender roles. The advice, the kids said, was “sexist.”
Justin Lookadoo has been a motivational speaker and relationship advice writer for years and, according to him at least, never faced this sort of criticism. But girls at Richardson High School in Dallas attacked him on Twitter during his presentation and in person after he was done.
One teen critic of the speaker Tweeted, “Why did you tell girls to get out of abusive relationships instead of telling guys not to be abusive in the first place?”
Another said, “Honestly the speaker we had today, Justin Lookadoo, disgusted me with his out of line jokes about women.”
Lookadoo, who calls himself the “Christian Love Guru,” relays traditional ideals for girls such as “keep covered.” In one of his books he tells girls, “Please, please don’t tease us. To show us your hot little body … and then tell us we can’t touch it is being a tease. You can’t look that sexy and then tell us to be on our best behavior.”
With another bit of advice, Lookadoo tells girls, “Dateable girls know how to shut up. They don’t monopolize the conversation. Let him lead. God made guys as leaders.”
Lookadoo calls youngsters with the correct behavioral outlook a “datable” person. His book is titled, “Datable: Are You? Are They?”
Libby Gordon, a mother of a male student at Richmond High, posted a complaint on her Facebook page saying, “My son is a sophomore at RHS and we are a Christian family. However, I believe discussions of this nature are best dealt with at home as many of the “datable” rules on his website are narrow minded and discriminatory toward both genders.”
Still, other parents and student stood up for Lookadoo and said that his remarks were perfectly in keeping with traditional, Christian mores.
Lookadoo himself told the media that he was just “empowering the student to actually take control of their relationships.”
By the afternoon, the school Principal had apologized and said that the program wasn’t meant to “offend anyone.”
So, is this an example of how the left has destroyed traditional morals, or did this guy go too far?
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Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, MrConservative.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, Wizbang.com, among many, many others. Huston has also appeared on Fox News, Fox Business Network, CNN, and many local TV shows as well as numerous talk radio shows throughout the country.
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