"Accountability partners" were a legit social fad when I was in high school, part of the creepy Panopticonization of fundie youth culture (the era of Josh Harris' book I Kissed Dating Goodbye and "modern courtship culture" where your parents had to be involved in your love life)
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It's fucked up, and on the male side of things it's tied to fucked up fratboy hazing ritual culture Some kid died when I was in high school because he and his buddies had a thing where you got socked in the stomach by everyone in the group after confessing a sin
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It was like how Harry Houdini died Got socked in the stomach five times for saying the F-word, died in the hospital that weekend of internal bleeding This got shared to us as a POSITIVE STORY about a boy who died because of his great devotion to Christ
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Anyway, lurid stories aside, "accountability" as a word seems to me to be this escalation from the idea of "responsibility" It's a question-begging word - it asserts right away that I have to answer to you, specifically, for any wrongdoing I commit
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Without saying exactly why it's any of your business - are you the person I harmed, do you have any relationship with me, do I owe you anything
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Hence the creepiness of Christians telling teenagers to just "hold each other accountable" as a way to make you a better person without thinking but the consequences Who holds the accountability partners accountable
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I've never seen someone demanding it be able to explain exactly to who some rando on Twitter must be accountable. The knots they tie themselves in to avoid appearing authoritarian are pretty funny TBH.
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we had a youth pastor have everyone in the group go round robin about what the 'troubled teen' was doing wrong in their life.
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