Complementarian teachers blamed women for men’s sexual behavior
Evidence
Wilson had a long history of victim blaming. In his 1997 book on “biblical courtship,” he had expounded on the common view that immodest women were responsible for men’s actions. As he put it, girls should “cover up” and not dress in a way that “a godly man has to duck down alleys or climb trees to get away from her.” Wilson didn’t believe men should go to lunch with a female coworker; though he hated “to belabor the obvious,” he felt it necessary to point out that “under the clothes, their bodies are different, and hers looks like it would be a lot more fun than some male co-worker’s body.” Moreover, Wilson suggested that women who rejected submissive femininity were “unprotected”; women who refused masculine protection were “really women who tacitly agree on the propriety of rape.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 640
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Male-centered erotic traditions blame women for being insatiable despite male-centered pacing — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 997; Women’s tech accomplishments were routinely attributed to sexual relationships with men — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 703; Openly gay teachers often perform palatable identities that reinforce dominant norms. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1258 (+7 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Male-centered erotic traditions blame women for being insatiable despite male-centered pacing — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 997; Women’s tech accomplishments were routinely attributed to sexual relationships with men — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 703; Openly gay teachers often perform palatable identities that reinforce dominant norms. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1258 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Purity culture assigned women responsibility for controlling male sexual desire
#expands(0.93) — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 389