Awakening the Evangelical Church to Domestic Abuse
Medusa was actually quite a beautiful woman before she was sexually assaulted by a male god. The sexual assault transformed her into a grotesque monster-like creature who had to live in total isolation. People only visited her to try to kill her, as some sort of quest or act of heroism. They were afraid of… Continue reading The story of Medusa illustrates the stigmatisation and isolation of victims
Why would I keep writing about Josh Butler and Beautiful Union when most people who were talking about it have moved on? I will keep writing on Butler because I believe that Butler's thesis greatly enables men who abuse their long-term female intimate partners, and this fact has not been sufficiently attended to yet by… Continue reading The neglect of intimate partner abuse in the advocacy community (Butler series)
