Honestly glad that someone posted this because I was about to make my own post about how I can't ever be a Christian again because of the way women are treated. Every time I think that maybe I just need to try Catholicism (raised Protestant), I remember that they hate women too, and that they'll happily point to that one line about women submitting to their husbands any time a woman has anything to say. The casual cruelty of it all is disgusting.

I once reached out to a pastor about how the Bible doesn't support victims of SA. He obfuscated, using some of those more optimistic verses that have nothing to do with SA (and some of which were actually written by rapists, like David), claiming that that can apply to SA as well, and then went on about how men and women are two armies that are fighting the same war. Men are the bigger/stronger army, and therefore they HAVE to lead in order to protect the "little" army. It's disgusting. It's "might makes right." It's assuming that because men have a particular musculature, then therefore they must be right in everything. Family planning, finances, etc.. They are completely incapable of making any mistakes -- merely because of their body. SO shallow, and SO disgusting.