Every Man’s Battle Prioritizes Predators over Victims
It’s horrifying–and you won’t understand how bad it is until you see it with your own eyes.
We’re doing something different for the podcast this week–out of necessity! We’ve been running behind since I was helping my daughter with her baby, and then we wanted to do a big podcast on how to vet a church’s website for this week. And it just wasn’t ready in time.
So we decided to put our Friday round-up up as today’s podcast–so that those who only listen to the podcast on their podcast app learn that we actually have Friday round-ups on YouTube as well!
Plus tomorrow is Good Friday, so it’s better to publish our Friday roundup early. So let’s go! Here are 2 horrific excerpts from Every Man’s Battle, with some AWESOME comments by our Facebook community. Plus we look at an interesting new study on tradwives and hostile vs. benevolent sexism!
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What did you think on those excerpts? Do you think hostile sexism is getting worse in evangelicalism? Let’s talk in the comments!
Transcript
Coming soon!
I’d like to see this whole paper.
“Together, these findings indicate that men who perceive the #tradwife movement favorably believe that they rely on women for intimacy and simultaneously resent that this is the case. This mentality could put tradwives in a precarious position considering the amount of control–both financial and otherwise–that they yield to their husbands.”
Considering this is academic writing, the authors don’t seem to mince words.
I found the distinction between the different types of sexism to be an interesting concept, as well as the comment that benevolent sexism can easily become hostile sexism.
I’m curious – is that change because the continuum is still in the category of sexism, based on the mood of the sexist individual, confirmation bias making the sexism more entrenched, or something else? And how common is it to leave sexism behind for healthier views?
I think lots of people leave sexism behind! But the idea that there is “good” sexism and “bad” sexism is just problematic, but it’s very much throughout the evangelical church. It’s good if it’s about protecting women; it’s bad if it’s about hurting women. But both set women up as less than men and in need of men to be in authority over them. So there’s a difference in degree and not in kind, and that’s the main issue.
“Why is Every Man’s Battle so Creepy?”
Maybe because a Creep wrote it?