re: #224 Sol Berdinowitz

I think that’s a pretty succinct analysis. They really are a success story, at least what I’ve been able to find out about them as a family. But I was always uncomfortable with Phil Robertson’s really strict gender roles, really driven home in the episode I described with his little granddaughters. I don’t think he’s a bad human being, I think he loves his family and has a strong work ethic. He laments the teens in the family not tearing themselves away from technology or learning the value of a hard day’s work(something his sons ought to be instilling in their kids but aren’t. How long before one of them has a very public spoiled brat meltdown?), which I can relate to. But he also uses his religion as a stick to smack others with and he’s judgmental as hell. No one’s even really talking about what he said about Jim Crow laws either, which is another issue. America could find other people to admire, won’t hurt us a bit.