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?
I am Christian and married myself, though I absolutely understand why many men would avoid that lifestyle these days. Marrying the wrong person is a cheat code to ruining your life and there are a lot more wrong people out there than right people.
Church really is the last reliable place to find decent women. If I hadn't found my wife there I really have no idea where I'd even begin to look.
Even there you can have some crazy, fanatical women. The one girl my son dated, specifically, through the Church came at him with a knife over something trivial.
Wow that's crazy, but unfortunately not that surprising. We're all immersed in modernity, and women are particularly susceptible to the influences that seem to drive them insane. I hope your son didn't get too emotionally scarred by that whole fiasco.
Nope not scarred by that, but scarred by the the girl he met on an adult dating site who lied that she was 18 and was actually 14 yr. He went to jail and suffered for years simply because a girl lied about her age. There is all kinds of proof, to include the girls confession that he was entrapped, but the laws (written by the Devil) require men to be omniscient and know the truth regardless of what they're told.