Driscoll attacked earlier evangelical men’s movements as feminized and weak

Evidence

In 2006, inspired by Braveheart, Driscoll adopted the pseudonym “William Wallace II” to express his unfiltered views. “I love to fight. It’s good to fight. Fighting is what we used to do before we all became pussified,” before America became a “pussified nation.” In that vein, he offered a scathing critique of the earlier iteration of the evangelical men’s movement, of the “pussified James Dobson knock-off crying Promise Keeping homoerotic worship …” where men hugged and cried “like damn junior high girls watching Dawson’s Creek.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 441

Categorization

• XREF: Shows intra-evangelical generational warfare — the Mark Driscoll strand repositioning itself against Promise Keepers and Dobson, which Du Mez covered in earlier chapters. Connects to her continuity thesis by showing the militant masculine strand displacing earlier soft-masculinity iterations.