“You Are Not Your Own:” Is Rape Just Another “Sexual Sin?”
This post is part of a series called“You Are Not Your Own,” focusing on rape and sexual assault in Christian relationship/dating books Content Note: rape, sexual assault, victim blaming This is the...
View ArticleRape Culture: It’s Not Just For Christian Dating Books!
Content Note: Rape Culture As I wrote my You Are Not Your Own series over the past few months, one of the most frequent response I got was, “[Insert thing that is not a Christian dating book here] does...
View Article“You Are Not Your Own:” Wrapping Things Up
This post is part of a series called“You Are Not Your Own,” focusing on rape and sexual assault in Christian relationship/dating books Content Note: rape, sexual assault We’ve come to the last post in...
View ArticlePrivilege in Christian Pacifism: What Counts as Violence?
This is my third piece in a series about the problems that privilege brings to Christian pacifist movements. I’m linking this series up to h00die_R’s synchroblog on the topic–The New Pacifism. Be sure...
View ArticlePrivilege in Christian Pacifism: Privileged Pacifism’s Worldview Problem
This is my fourth, and final (probably…for now at least) piece on some of the problems that unevaluated privilege can cause in Christian pacifist movements. I’m linking this series up to h00die_R’s...
View Article#PlanetCCM: Relient K And Using CCM To Sell Sexism
Content Note: Victim Blaming, Body Shaming Dianna E. Anderson is hosting a synchroblog this week about contemporary Christian music (CCM) and how it affected the lives of those who grew up with it....
View ArticleNot So Fast, The Daily Beast: On Rape Myths and Those Slutty, Gossipy Women
Content Note: Discussion of sexual assault, victim blaming This is a response to a piece published on The Daily Beast by Robert B. Weide. It will likely be the first of two or three posts on the topic,...
View ArticleNot So Fast, The Daily Beast: The Radical Act of Trusting Children
Content Note: Discussion of sexual assault, victim blaming This is my second piece in response to an article published on The Daily Beast by Robert B. Weide. My first piece on this topic can be found...
View ArticleWhy I’d Choose Conservative Christianity Over Amanda Marcotte’s Feminism
[Content Note: Rape, Victim Blaming, Unjust Arrest] This Monday, popular feminist writer Amanda Marcotte wrote a decent piece for Salon, describing victim blaming in conservative Christianity. In it,...
View ArticleThe Answer To Sexual Shame is Not MORE Sexual Shame, Carson T. Clark
[Content Note: Sexual and Spiritual Abuse] When I was 16, I dated an abuser who was constantly coercing me into having sex with him. I had been raised in fundamentalist purity culture, so I thought of...
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