Friday, February 21, 2014

4 Ways Conservatives Are Fighting to Control Women's Sex Lives


http://www.alternet.org/sex-amp-relationships/4-ways-conservatives-are-fighting-control-womens-sex-lives
 Kiera Feldman’s recent New Republic report on the convergence of rape culture and evangelical culture at a private Christian university in Virginia is a deeply troubling story. It’s also a disturbingly familiar one.
In a series of interviews with female survivors of sexual violence at Patrick Henry College, Feldman uncovered an institutional pattern of victim-blaming and impunity for perpetrators that was grounded in the school’s strict adherence to evangelical doctrine, specifically its “gender complementarian” norms and toxic purity culture.
wait a minute strict adherence aren't the t-party part if not the faction that has been leading the war on women, too late to the rape issues and more promotive then preventive, taking too much time to sign VAWA, so that would make adherence just complicitous.
Though generally viewed as a safe haven for young people with an evangelical Christian worldview, Patrick Henry College turned out to be a very dangerous place to be a survivor of sexual assault. It is, in other words, much like everywhere else in this country.
Evangelical Christianity makes visible — through purity pledges and doctrine assigning women the role of man’s “helpmate” — the norms and expectations about female virginity and subservience that so often remain hidden in the secular world. While it may be tempting to draw a red line around Christian fundamentalist views on gender and sexuality to distinguish them from supposedly evolved “secular” culture, there is considerable, uncomfortable overlap between the two.
evangelical world view, thats just the same as Texas view or any of those foreign states and IMO that is what feeds the mentality they are crying about, if you pee in your bed and don't get up you're just laying in pee.
we all are familiar with the Godless preaching's of hate and racism and support of those who would take food out of a baby's mouth and usurp American constitutional rights.  if you teach dissension you will create people who dissent, eventually they will turn on those who taught them because they now realize their dissension is misdirected and should be at those who perpetrate it.