Yes, you can laugh at the horrible, horrible hypocrisy of the fixation on sin in a family rife with incest and rape.
It doesn't even surprise me anymore, what with the string of evangelical Christian rape cover-ups and the recent Duggar blowup. Libby Anne at Love Joy Feminism explained this by saying that in conservative sexual ethics, (extramarital) rape is just one of the forbidden types of sex where the victim is seen as culpable or at least complicit. In progressive sexual ethics, on the other hand, rape is categorized as wrongful sexual behavior because it involves making use of a person's body without their consent, compromising their sexual self-determination and violating their sense of safety and trust.
I DO have a MASSIVE hate-on for the abstinence only education I got as a kid. It might not have been overtly religious, but oh, I promise you, there was a LOT of Christian style misogyny built into it.
Oh yeah man, that stuff is EVIL, and I remember you writing about the impact it had on you as a victim of sexual violence. So much hate.
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Date: 2015-07-12 05:51 am (UTC)It doesn't even surprise me anymore, what with the string of evangelical Christian rape cover-ups and the recent Duggar blowup. Libby Anne at Love Joy Feminism explained this by saying that in conservative sexual ethics, (extramarital) rape is just one of the forbidden types of sex where the victim is seen as culpable or at least complicit. In progressive sexual ethics, on the other hand, rape is categorized as wrongful sexual behavior because it involves making use of a person's body without their consent, compromising their sexual self-determination and violating their sense of safety and trust.
Oh yeah man, that stuff is EVIL, and I remember you writing about the impact it had on you as a victim of sexual violence. So much hate.