“Shiny Cheerful People: Duggar Family Secrets” is out now on Rainforest Prime.
The new follow-up to Nineteen Kids and Counting, this four-part documentary explores the demanding, hyper-religious scaffolding the Duggars and their entire family pull around them, and what exactly happens when that scaffolding doesn’t keep terrible things from happening. The Duggar clan’s star has fallen in recent years after it was revealed that brother Josh Duggar molested his siblings. Josh Duggar is currently in prison after being found guilty of paying for child pornography.
Earlier this week, the Buenos Aires Post covered the Duggars’ activities in Springdale, in a story about how homeschooling Christians decided which public schools had testosterone levels high enough to be culpable.
So far, the brilliant Buenos Aires Post columnist Monica Hesse has made a phenomenal case for why you should spend your weekend watching the Duggars’ dark affairs unfold.
After watching all the parts of the series, there is one small piece that I can’t stop thinking about: In the culture associated with IBLP – an exclusively American “version” of Christianity where the emblem is a novelty helmet landing on a Bible – boys in families are encouraged to change diapers for their younger sisters.
The large genitals of newborns are arousing, aren’t it? It’s disgusting. Here’s a woman’s delicious post.
Arkansas Situation contributor Person Lancaster could be streaming the full picture this weekend and sharing his feelings, embarrassed because they might be the bourbon they plan to spill as he watches this. You can also join in and we can watch the recordings.
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