I don’t know how he got a following at all. Like, a lot of televangelists have a style. If you watch them as a kind of theater, it’s kinda fascinating. Not something I’d recommend on the regular, but you can see how they draw people in. Stage magicians can take notes from these guys.

Kenneth Copeland, though? How does he not creep you the fuck out at first glance? Just watch him doing this blood ritual thing. Copeland would make a terrible stage magician.

Partially. Not really. Page Rank instantly obsoleted every other search algorithm in existence. Nobody was able to get high quality results right at the top so consistently. The ad-free part was a bonus, at least for a while.

Here’s Orwell in “Homage to Catalonia”:

“There were perhaps a thousand men at the barracks, and a score or so of women, apart from the militiamen’s wives who did the cooking. There were still women serving in the militias, though not very many. In the early battles they had fought side by side with the men as a matter of course. It is a thing that seems natural in time of revolution. Ideas were changing ready, however. The militiamen had to be kept out of the riding-school while the women were drilling there because they laughed at the women and put them off. A few months earlier no one would have seen anything comic in a woman handling a gun.”

This was in an overwhelmingly leftist camp. Orwell sees glimpses of an anarchist collective based on mutual aid popping up. Yet, sexisim clearly persisted after a period where it had been pushed aside.

These issues don’t go away just because people become class conscious.