Patriarchy, purity culture, and authoritarian clergy jointly create abuse-prone environments

Evidence

In the assessment of former member T. F. Charlton, “the combination of patriarchal gender roles, purity culture, and authoritarian clergy that characterizes Sovereign Grace’s teachings on parenting, marriage, and sexuality” created an environment where women and children—especially girls—were “uniquely vulnerable to abuse.” — Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Jesus and John Wayne, 632

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the book’s central thesis that militant masculinity is the organizing center — here made criminally concrete. — connects to: Ancient religious and legal codes across cultures uniformly framed woman as vile or subordinate.; In abuse structures the abused and abuser are interchangeable positions. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 544