All posts tagged "Domestic Abuse"

It's tremendously difficult for domestic violence victims to speak out about what they've gone through in an abusive relationship. But that difficulty is certainly amplified when the victim is a male public figure who has to deal with unreasonable gender expectations.

I'm currently reading Kathryn Joyce's book Quiverfull, which is scheduled to come out next month, and I've been enjoying the articles she's been publishing to promote the book. She's got one up at Alternet today about one of the worst aspects of the Christian patriarchy movement---if you tell women to submit, even if you deny that it's true, you're encouraging wife battering. The dirty little secret of evangelical tolerance of wife battering is that it's not a problem for just a slim minority of super crazies, but is in fact part of the mainstream evangelical movement, basically any church or belief system that's invested in male dominance and bleats about "family values". Yes, that includes Rick Warren, who teaches that battered women have no right to divorce their abusers.