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A Christian book for little girls is going viral for really disturbing reasons. Seriously… what the eff is this??
An X (Twitter) user going by the name @AnAngryOpossum made a chilling discovery this week at their local library — and went insanely viral sharing it. The book is called You! A Christian Girl’s Guide to Growing Up, from faith-based imprint FaithGirlz. The reason the user was icked out? Well… it’s apparently “full of stuff about feet.”
Found this book at the park and it’s full of stuff about feet?? pic.twitter.com/83A5hgMqJR
— an spooky opossum ???? (@AnAngryOpossum) October 26, 2024
What kind of stuff? First off, it spent a page making the case that feet are super important to God. In a photo of a page, author Nancy Rue writes:
“Hands are one thing, but why would God care about your feet?”
The book then shows examples of Bible verses that mention feet — like someone did a Command+F search of the King James. Kinda weird, but if it’s making the case that your body is a temple, and everything is important? Yeah, that’s… not it. Because the book keeps going.
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It turns into a workbook, see, presumably for a youth pastor (
) to discuss. And it asks the little girls reading to write down their “ most embarrassing foot moment”:
what has been your most embarrassing foot moment ???? pic.twitter.com/szY42nnmM7
— an spooky opossum ???? (@AnAngryOpossum) October 26, 2024
OK, that’s definitely getting weirder. Especially as it asks the reader to tell them “what names you would give your toes” and if they can find their own “foot verse” in the Bible. Just a… lot of foot stuff for a book made to teach little girls about growing up…
But it then changes lanes and encourages tweens to be happy about their growing breasts because it means they’ll be “attractive to men” so they’ll get a husband:
gaslighting myself about my boobs to please god ???? pic.twitter.com/1EaZ9FQb5g
— an spooky opossum ???? (@AnAngryOpossum) October 26, 2024
But Opossum did a little research and found other books from the imprint… several of which prominently featured pics of little girl feet on them:
this is absolutely a foot situation holy shit pic.twitter.com/cleU3v7ihp
— an spooky opossum ???? (@AnAngryOpossum) October 26, 2024
Yeesh!
Look, we don’t want to find all this creepy. But at a time when we’re reevaluating a lot of children’s programming, especially stuff on Nickelodeon under creator Dan Schneider, how could we NOT??
We don’t know if author Nancy Rue is intentionally being weird here, if it’s a directive from the company, or what. Maybe it’s a Nancy Drew situation, and that one pen name is just being used by multiple people? And one of them is preoccupied with feet?
One commenter didn’t buy that any of this was real… so they went on Amazon and bought the digital copy for themselves for proof. The thing about a digital copy is… you can search for specific words. And they found 48 references to the word “feet” in this one book. What. The. Command+F.
I thought you had photoshopped these because they were too Dan Schneider on the nose, so I talked to Amazon for 15 minutes to sort out my account just so I could download the free Kindle version of the book and OH MY GOODNESS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMAN!?!? pic.twitter.com/dA6Tdz8eJy
— SlowpokeCon???? ???????? ヤドンコン???????? (@SlowpokeCon) October 26, 2024
Many comments were equally grossed out…
“How much is there even to say about feet in this context except, ‘wash them, trim your toenails, wear shoes that fit’?!”
“This woman is a man with a pen name”
“Something about the phrase ‘mini-women’ Ircks my ick”
“That sounds like something a predator would use”
“Less than delicious is going to haunt me forever I think”
“I’m being serious can someone look into this author”
But some girls actually grew up with this book or one like it — and could confirm there was other strange stuff in their church groups!
“I had this exact book growing up and I just quietly ‘lost’ it during a school trip.”
“we were given something like this in middle school and one of the alternatives it listed to ‘messing around’ was toe-sucking”
“At my yearly Christian Bible camp when I was a kid 12 older kids had to pick a younger kid’s feet to wash in front of the whole camp with a rag like Jesus and it felt deeply weird then but now it seems like a humiliation ritual/fetish”
Y’all, if your youth pastor or anyone else starts talking about your kids’ feet, PLEASE let someone know!
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