Brett McCracken is the Senior Editor and Director of Communications at The Gospel Coalition. Every year, he posts his list of favorite movies and TV shows, often on the Gospel Coalition itself, and it is an under reported scandal that his favorite films frequently frequently contain graphic sex and nudity, both straight and gay.
McCracken’s Top 20 list of favorite shows in 2021, published on the Gospel Coalition platform, featured several that were rated ‘R’ for scenes of sex and nudity; his 2022 best movies list is full of graphic sex and nudity, and mercifully, his best films of 2023′ only featured a bit of sex and nudity.
For example, let’s review one of his “Best Movies of 2022′ that TGC published: the pornographic Norwegian film The Worst Person in the World.
This movie is rated R or 18+ in most countries for graphic sex and nudity throughout. Common Sense Media reveals that the film “follows the life of twenty something Julie (Renate Reinsve) as she navigates her way through life and various relationships. It deals with adult themes and sexual acts — both intercourse and oral sex — are portrayed on-screen, including full-frontal nudity.”
Kids in Mind has more details. Here is a sampling. Viewer discretion is advised.
After a woman breaks up with a man, they kiss passionately on a sofa, they move to the floor where the man removes the woman’s shorts and underwear (we see her bare legs, hip and the side of her buttock) and performs oral sex on her; the man stands up later and we see him without pants (his genitals and bare legs are shown). A man and a woman kiss passionately and remove each other’s clothing (we see his bare chest and abdomen); he thrusts on top of her (we see pubic hair, bare buttocks and bare breasts).
A woman lifts her shirt to show her bare breasts to a man (we see her bare breasts); he’s working and looks at her but is not distracted. A woman looks at another woman’s Instagram photos and we see her striking suggestive poses that reveal her partially bare buttocks, cleavage, abdomen, back and legs.
A woman pulls down a man’s pants in bed, and bites and slaps his bare buttocks (we see his bare buttocks). A man and a woman sit in bed (sex is implied) and we see the woman’s bare breasts and the man’s bare shoulders, chest and legs. A man and a woman sleep in bed together (we see their bare shoulders and sex is implied).A woman is shown fully nude (we see her bare breasts, legs hips and abdomen) during a hallucination where she removes a soiled tampon and throws it in her father’s face.
During a hallucination, a woman imagines her fully nude body aged and we see her bare breasts, abdomen and buttocks as several people’s hands touch her; she also imagines an infant nursing from her breast.
Despite having the perverse and depraved viewing habit usually reserved for a 16-year-old boy passing the time at 2:00 am in his gooner basement, McCracken is so brazen that he and TGC are offering a $299 course on how to “Learn ways to evaluate and engage films from a Christian perspective.
In 2021, he released a list of his ‘favorite things on TV,’ and we couldn’t help but notice the inclusion of The White Lotus.
Appearing on HBO, this six-episode show is rated TV-M and contains tons of filthy language, sex jokes, sex scenes, copious amounts of male nudity, and some female nudity as well.
In fact, it contains (warning, graphic description ahead) a graphic sex scene featuring two fully nude men, where one has his face in the back-end of the other, doing very homosexual things to his anus with his mouth.
We’ve been able to pinpoint this scene to near the middle, based on online viewer feedback, which means even after he watched this scene, it was not enough to turn his stomach. Instead, McCracken kept on watching more episodes, understanding that he very well may see more of this content in the rest of the season, and then had the gall to list the season as one of his favorite things he watched.
Our criticism of the morality of the man leading The Gospel Coalition seems to have gotten to him, however. While the rest of this content is there, he recently edited this show out of his list of favorites, so that it doesn’t appear.
Thanks to the Wayback Machine, however, we saved it for posterity many years ago.
All this to say, when Brett McCracken releases a lengthy article on TGC criticizing Hollywood’s view of sex, we ought to rightly lambast them as the hypocrites they are. In 2018 McCracken wrote:
“The prevalence of sex and sexualized (often naked) bodies in today’s films and TV shows… is just one way Hollywood reveals its understanding of sex as a lust-driven consumer commodity. The very idea of sexual acts and sexualized bodies on a screen, for the gaze of the masses, presents sex in consumer terms—inviting third-party observers into a sexual intimacy that doesn’t belong to them but which feels like their prerogative to consume.”
Talk about ‘thou art the man.’
McCracken is one of these “third-party observers!”
In the same article that he laments the violative aspects of sex on screen, he discusses the film The Shape of Water, an R-rated flick about a romance between a woman and an amphibious beast, which he reviewed and did not like, and which features, in his own words, “an explicit scene of brazen, no-shame interspecies sex.” Kids in Mind again fills in the gap (content warning).
Why should anyone ever take them seriously?
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