"Sometimes, as I spent this morning listening to a podcast recounting abuse in conservative Christian communities (in this case, Amish communities) and how the Bible was used in these communities to excuse CSA and marital rape - I wonder - how can we even turn again to a book that has served as a sanction-er for so much evil. Is it even worth trying anymore?"

~ Angela Denker

#bible #Christians #fundamentalism #ChristianNationalism #SexualAbuse #misogyny #homophobia

angeladenker.substack.com/p/su…

Sunday Stretch: Vol. 163, Lent IV

Start off your week with a grounded take on Bible, prayer, the world, and your life ...

^{Rev. Angela Denker (I'm Listening)}

"This is what the research on divorced-guy syndrome shows — the damage doesn’t stop at the person who left. It radiates outward, finding new targets, as the original wound festers with spite."

These are men who are intent on taking "the wound that has become their souls" and making it our wound, inflicting it on all of us, and above all, on all women.

#Trump #misogyny #RussellVought #Project2025 #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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As Sattler notes, in pointing to the large percentage of angry divorced men the Trump regime empowers, Andrea Pitzer "doesn’t mean every divorced guy ever. Just the particular brain of divorce that seems to metastasize over endemic misogyny when exposed to malign forces like an ungrieved childhood, cryptocurrency, Fox News, tax cuts for the rich, and Donald Trump."

#Trump #misogyny #RussellVought #Project2025 #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/th…

The most divorced men in history

The resentment of women that undergirds so much recklessness.

^{Degenerate Art}

Citing Andrea Pitzer's valuable commentary on the role embittered, misogynistic divorced men are playing in wreaking havoc for all of us under Trump, Jason Sattler zeroes in on Project 2025 maven and head of the Office of Budget Management Russ Vought. For Sattler,

"The language of family trauma and abuse is the only way to understand governance under Trump."

#Trump #misogyny #RussellVought #Project2025 #MaleEntitlement #MaleDomination
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"According to the code, men are allowed to beat their wives as long as they do not use 'obscene force', defined as causing fractures, wounds or visible bruises, which the wife must prove in court."

#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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"'A little anger and a few beatings won’t kill you. Islam allows a man to beat his wife if she disobeys him, to discipline her. Go, and don’t come again asking for divorce over such things.’ ...

A new criminal code given to courts last year – and publicised in January – has gone further by permitting violence against women and preventing them from seeking justice."

#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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"When Farzana went on to describe the attack she had recently suffered, she said the judge asked whether she had proof of the abuse.

When I said no, he told me: 'You were young and enjoyed your husband. Now that he is getting older you are making excuses to divorce him so you can marry someone else. Go back, you have a nice husband, live with him.'"

#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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The shocking level of physical violence against women permitted under the Taliban’s new laws has been revealed this week by the case of a woman in northern Afghanistan, who said she was beaten with a cable wire by her husband and told by a judge: 'You want a divorce just because of that? … A little anger and a few beatings won’t kill you.'”

~ Zahra Joya, Tom Levitt, and Ziba Balkhi

#women #Taliban #Afghanistan #violence #WifeBeating #misogyny
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theguardian.com/global-develop…

‘A few beatings won’t kill you’: judge rejects divorce request of woman abused by husband in Afghanistan

Under new Taliban laws, a husband is allowed to beat his wife as long as it is not done with ‘obscene force’, which the woman must prove in court

^{Zahra Joya (The Guardian)}