Original post: https://www.aaronrenn.com/p/stop-shaming-men
Archive post: https://archive.ph/JzmQy
It’s one of the most well known facts in social science that women initiate the vast majority of divorces – around 70% or so depending on the source you look at. It’s a fact I have never heard an evangelical pastor mention. In fact, as one feminist scholar found in her academic research, in evangelical sermons ‘women are framed primarily as receivers of divorce rather than initiators.’ And, while there have been improvements, divorce court and child custody practices still favor women. . . . It’s also worth asking what Blake – and by extension the rest of the evangelical leadership class – are doing to reduce these risks, help men manage them, or to create an environment in which men have a better chance of marital success. The answer is basically nothing. . . . They could tell men, “Get married and we’ve got your back.” But they don’t. Instead, should some man actually get married and any troubles arise, they will almost certainly blame him for it.”
Evangelicals, is there nothing they can't fuck up?
That's the thing, marriage does bring all the benefits that most people think they do, but most American women of dating age are not marriage material.
This is what evangelicals of Gen X or Boomer age don't seem get, that most women have responded to modern cultural cues by going completely batshit crazy. My own religious beliefs are pretty hard core Christian, what is usually called fundamentalist, these days. I never attended mainline protestant churches, so lutheran/baptist/7th day aventist etc. are all those other people to me. shrug