Betty Bowers

Betty Bowers is the name of a fictional rich and right-wing southern evangelical invented by Paul A. Bradley on the former website BettyBowers.com, on Youtube and Facebook and in various books, videos and websites. Betty Bowers is currently portrayed by cabaret artist and speaker Deven Green.

background

Betty Bowers is America's Best Christian and a former real estate agent. With BITCH ( Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers ) and BASH ( Baptists Are Saving Homosexuals ) she runs various private mission societies. She belongs to the also fictional Landover Baptist Church , "God's preferred church". The parody refers to the positioning of the Southern Baptist Convention in the setting of the American Civil War and how far afterwards.

The author of the content such as the inventor of the person is the openly gay author Paul A. Bradley, who wrote Betty in books such as What Would Betty Do? (Simon & Schuster 2002), The White House Employee Handbook (Penguin 2004) and Welcome to Jesusland! (formerly the United States of America) (Time Warner 2006).

The last name goes to Bowers vs. Hardwick , a 1986 United States Supreme Court decision on a sodomy law in Georgia .

Tara McPherson, professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts sees Betty as a contribution to the long-standing debates about the image of the American South.

style

Bowers comments on various topics from politics and contemporary history in the style of an incorrigibly bigoted right-wing fanatic. The letter-style texts are always closed with a modification of the closing formula So close to Jesus (Jesus so close that ...) and a typical suffix. Examples of these final formulas include Jesus so close, I ask him to eat less garlic, or Jesus so close, he takes my date of birth when he fills out lottery tickets and Jesus so close, he resurrects the dead just to let me have the last word .

literature

Paul Bradley: What Would Betty Do? How to Succeed at the Expense of Others in This World and the Next . Fireside, New York 2002, ISBN 0-7432-1601-6 .

Web links

Betty Bowers on the Landover Baptist website

Individual evidence

↑ A bitch is a slut and bashing means hitting someone or putting them down (gay bashing = gay clapping).
↑ Review of “What would Betty do” in Out, March 2002, Issue 10, No. 9, ISSN 1062-7928 , published by Here Publishing.
^ Tara McPherson: Reconstructing Dixie: race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South. Publisher Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3040-7 .

[1] A bitch is a slut and bashing means hitting someone or putting them down (gay bashing = gay clapping).

[2] Review of “What would Betty do” in Out, March 2002, Issue 10, No. 9, ISSN 1062-7928 , published by Here Publishing.

[3] Tara McPherson: Reconstructing Dixie: race, gender, and nostalgia in the imagined South. Publisher Duke University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-8223-3040-7 .