Jen Hatmaker

[Anonymous]

TMP posts are so opportunistic. How do ppl not see through it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot handle Glennon’s play dumb about soccer bits that she thinks are so cute. There’s nothing cute about pretending you know nothing about a game your wife and kids are obsessed with…you KNOW soccer, Glennon. It’s just so weird that she pretends she’s dumb with the whole calling the referee a judge. She’s very emotionally stunted.

Same. I can’t stand her playing dumb about soccer.

[Anonymous]

One reason that I can’t stand Ted Lasso. 3 years of coaching and barely knows squat about the game.

[Anonymous]

What in the heck? What is Me Camp supposed to even be when every body she knows visits her? I guess Me Camp is less about self-reflection and growth, and more about the world revolving around her wherever she goes.

I’m Canadian and cross-country flights are expensive as hell. Maybe it’s different in the USA. I guess everyone in her family and all her friends have tons of money and limited work to be able to travel so much for pleasure.

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Anonymous wrote:What in the heck? What is Me Camp supposed to even be when every body she knows visits her? I guess Me Camp is less about self-reflection and growth, and more about the world revolving around her wherever she goes.

I’m Canadian and cross-country flights are expensive as hell. Maybe it’s different in the USA. I guess everyone in her family and all her friends have tons of money and limited work to be able to travel so much for pleasure.

It's actually not too expensive here in the US to fly between major cities- anywhere from $100-300/round-trip ticket per person, depending on when you book and when you go, etc. She might be paying for it with airline miles or just paying for it, regardless. Or maybe they all pay and just jump on the bandwagon. But it's very contradictory for her to constantly proclaim how she just goes to get away and solo travel and take time for self-reflection and then multiple units of her squad show up at various times so that she doesn't have to be alone. Furthermore, as a woman in today's time, I don't think I'd recommend ever broadcasting it to social media that you're "ALONE AND AVAILABLE FOR KIDNAPPING IN THIS EXACT LOCATION AT THESE EXACT PLACES. SO FUN! COME AND TRAFFIC ME!" In a time when you can schedule texts and videos and create content that you can drop later, why on earth would you not quietly do your Me Camp (sorry, I have to roll my eyes every time I see that phrase) and then come home and post about it then?

[Anonymous]

Could “MeCamp” just be a big dumb tax write off to The Legacy Collective?

[Anonymous]

Playing dumb yet always bragging on Abby’s soccer accolades cause we all know she can’t hook up with some regular lesbian- gotta be an Olympian . Poor Abby!

[Anonymous]

lol she definitely would not hook up with a regular lesbian...Glennon is so manipulative I do not understand the thousands upon thousands of people who literally worship her. She twists EVERYTHING into seeming like an expert... she never ever seems really happy. She has made millions of dollars, basically lives on the beach in California, has a wonderful partner, but she has been very very sick. I am glad that she's getting the help that she needs for her anorexia, but she never stepped back after that diagnosis and just plowed on through talking, talking talking.

[Anonymous]

Bizarre. Abby seems perfectly capable of deciding whether her relationship is healthy and working or not. Just because someone once self-medicated doesn’t mean they lose all discernment.

[Anonymous]

Abby if you can hear me, blink 3 times on Glennon’s next “I’m pretending I don’t understand soccer” post. You know where you are in the background, being overtalked by Glennon. We will rescue you. We know she has you TAMED. Run like a gosh darn cheetah away from this bag of nuts!

[Anonymous]

[quote]Apart from Sarah Bessey, who continues to write, the other internet besties have slowly receded into the background. I think a lot of it has to do with having stable, happy relationships. Jamie Wright has backed away from most posting on IG or her blog. Kristen Howerton doesn't seem to be doing her podcast anymore. Tara Livesay is stepping away from her birthing center. What do they have in common? Seemingly happy marriages or relationships over the past several years.
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I think what they also have in common is a refusal to use their kids' problems as content. I know some of those women have kids with mental health stuff and other challenges but they give their kids privacy and post about them in flattering ways instead of criticizing them publicly. Unlike Jen, her internet besties also seem to enjoy their kids' company. I also think these women have found meaning in their lives outside of internet head-pats and collecting fans like Jen seems to still be chasing.

[Anonymous]

Jamie has a grandson now and Tara’s family of grandkids is growing too so hopefully Jen will get a grand baby soon too.

I wonder if she and Tyler will last the year.

[Anonymous]

Yes Jen seems to get along fine with the older two but they seem pretty self sufficient . Having a kid on the spectrum means you have to love them as they can receive it. I’m very huggy but I need to rein it in for my high functioning daughter .

[Anonymous]

Gavin: “the good son”. Never got in much trouble. Did everything “the right way”.

Sydney: Jen’s mini me (in seemingly the best ways). Nuff said.

Caleb: “the golden son”. No matter what he does, the sun will always shine out his ✨

Ben: Jen’s emotional husband. I worry this poor kiddo feels like he constantly has to prove his worth.

Remy: the scapegoat.

I feel for Jen in that for right or wrong, the youngest kids in large families tend to raise themselves / are raised by elder siblings. Remy is and may always be high needs.

Getting frustrated and lashing out at the poor child on social media is unacceptable though.

[Anonymous]

Ex ANCer here, one of the early birds with several other once foundational families that were critical in joining with the Hatmakers and Pruets to launch ANC. The thing to keep in mind is that a lot of people felt very betrayed by the Hatmakers (and the Pruets) when it became really evident that Jen was all about Jen and that her dreams of stardom and fame were consuming the oxygen of that little church. People really did buy into the mission of the original church, a Christian church preaching a living Gospel to those in the margins of a city we all loved. We were duped. All of us.

Now, every single one of those foundational families no longer go there. Not one. Even the die hards ride of dies with Jen.

Heck, no Hatmaker even goes there anymore.

It’s just Tray with an A and that weird suck up they with the dumb hats and turquoise jewelry the Hatmakers hired from Joel Osteen and a dwindling skeleton crew.

Jason Morriss tried to tie himself to the Hatmaker star. He thought he’d become famous and relevant or something. Be with the cool kids. Get book deals. Talk about a terrible terrible calculation.

ANC is a sad shell of what it once was, a sad cautionary tale of something that was once beautiful but became corroded by legit real corruption* pride and arrogance.

If anyone even cared anymore read about how the elders did the.church were as surprised by Jen’s October announcement as everyone else reading about it online despite the leaders insistence that they had all been studying and praying about it for over a year. A total lie. And don’t even get me started on how they all rested a beloved elder who grieved for what was happening and who soon died tragically of cancer.