The road to hell is paved with good intentions, so the old adage goes.
As time goes on and the values of society change, it's easy to look back and realize some of the things done in the past probably weren't good, even though they may have been done with the best of intentions.
That lesson, unfortunately, has not caught up with everybody.
Evangelical Christian pastor Brian Suavé of Refuge Church in Ogden, Utah posted a tweet regarding women and their bodies.
But the 2022 Zeitgeist caught up with him whether he wanted it to or not.
While modesty in a culture is not inherently wrong, when that call for modesty is only directed at women, it becomes misogynistic.
It also perpetuates rape culture through the message women are responsible for the actions of others because of their clothing. And while many critics of such misogynistic messaging miss it, these types of modesty directives aimed only at women denigrate men as base creatures unable to control their behavior in the presence of anything even mildly attractive or arrousing—painting all men as potential rapists.
Almost immediately, "Dear Brian" began trending across the platform as people across the gender spectrum shared why they thought Suavé should mind his own business.
Suavé doubled down on his comments following his much-maligned tweet.
But users would not be held down.
Over 19,400 people have quoted Suavé's original tweet to tell him in no uncertain words to "f**k off."
Undeterred, Suavé has continued to release a stream of transphobic, misogynistic and homophobic posts and comments mislabeled as "Christian Love" via his Twitter account.
